Brian Schroeder.

My most-read comic book artists of 2025.

1. Jack Kirby
2. R.B Silva — @rbsilva_comics
3. Juan Frigeri — @juanmfrigeri
4. Chip Zdarsky
5. Stefano Caselli — @stefano_caselli_art
6. Peach Momoko — @peachmomoko60
7. Vincenzo Carratú — @vcarratu
8. Valerio Schiti — @valerio_schiti
9. Carlos Gomez — @carlosgomezartist
10. Mitch Gerads — @mitchgerads

I thought it would be interesting this year to track my reading to make a list of my most-read comic book creators, both artists and writers. My reading was dominated by a few major things: catching up on the X-Men’s Krakoa era, the new Marvel Ultimate Universe, and the Fourth World by Jack Kirby. There was such a vibrant fun modern energy to the artists who gave to the X-Men’s climactic storyline—R.B. Silva, Juan Frigeri, Vincenzo Carratú, and Carlos Gomez the most prolific for my reading—that lent to the epic scale of such a fast-paced story. The Ultimate Universe allowed artists to lean into their styles and shine: Juan Frigeri (again), Stefano Caselli, and Peach Momoko developed bold visuals that dropped us into the rich new worlds being developed in the micro-line. But more than all those artists, my first dive into Jack Kirby’s Fourth World for DC Comics dominated my reading this year, a visual feast designing a full mythos of characters and concepts that have changed DC comics to this day. Rolling out of that, I couldn’t help but return to a favorite follow-up, Mister Miracle, beautifully translating trauma and mental illness into vidual superhero storytelling by Mitch Gerads. Reading Fourth World also led me to take up Chip Zdarsky’s Public Domain, with such a clean beautiful style that expresses human emotion and humor so perfectly, as well as the beautiful fantastical work of Valerio Schiti diving into a similar cosmic storytelling in Marvel’s G.O.D.S.