Issue No. 2 · September 2026
    iFAMOUSby iFANN

    The monthly record of fame.

    Back to the issue
    Issue No. 2 · September 2026

    The Most Famous Comic Book Creators in the World

    Top 30 of 30 ranked · September 2026 · See today's live standing →

    Everyone, living or dead, on one scale: 25 of the 30 listed are living.

    First issue under methodology v5.70. Movement begins with the next issue frozen under the same version.

    The Most Famous Comic Book Creators in the World is the September 2026 edition of the ranking, frozen and published by iFAMOUS, the monthly journal of the iFANN Global Fame Rankings.

    RankNameScore
    1
    Stan Lee
    celebrity
    12.5
    2
    Mark Hamill
    UScelebrityAlive
    11.9
    3
    Frank Miller
    UScelebrityAlive
    8.9
    4
    Joss Whedon
    UScelebrityAlive
    8.4
    5
    Steve Ditko
    celebrity
    8.3
    6
    Thomas Jane
    UScelebrityAlive
    8.2
    7
    Jack Kirby
    UScelebrity
    6.9
    8
    Iman Vellani
    PKcelebrityAlive
    6.5
    9
    Garth Ennis
    GBcelebrityAlive
    6.0
    10
    Avi Arad
    ILcelebrityAlive
    5.9
    11
    Joe Shuster
    CAcelebrity
    5.7
    12
    Brandon Routh
    celebrityAlive
    5.1
    13
    David Dastmalchian
    celebrityAlive
    5.0
    14
    Michael Waldron
    UScelebrityAlive
    4.4
    15
    Mister Sinister
    GBcelebrityAlive
    4.0
    16
    Brian Michael Bendis
    celebrityAlive
    3.8
    17
    Mark Millar
    GBcelebrityAlive
    3.8
    18
    Chris Claremont
    GBcelebrityAlive
    3.7
    19
    Todd McFarlane
    CAcelebrityAlive
    3.6
    20
    David Morrell
    CAcelebrityAlive
    3.5
    21
    Jonathan Hickman
    celebrityAlive
    3.3
    22
    Gary Larson
    UScelebrityAlive
    3.1
    23
    Darick Robertson
    UScelebrityAlive
    2.5
    242.4
    25
    Mauricio de Sousa
    BRcelebrityAlive
    2.1
    26
    Kamome Shirahama
    JPcelebrityAlive
    1.9
    27
    Sara Pichelli
    ITcelebrityAlive
    1.7
    28
    Dan Watters
    GBcelebrityAlive
    1.4
    29
    Tsai Chih-chung
    TWcelebrityAlive
    1.3
    30
    Lat
    MYcelebrityAlive
    1.2

    About this list

    This list ranks the most famous comic book creators in the world as of September 2026, by overall global fame rather than one month's attention. It is the top 30 of 30 names the rankings measured in this sector, frozen as the permanent record of that edition. This is the standard reading: everyone, living or dead, on one scale. 25 of the 30 listed are living; the Alive reading restricts the same ranking to living people.

    Stan Lee is No. 1 on this list for September 2026. Behind Stan Lee come Mark Hamill and Frank Miller.

    What famous means here

    Fame, in iFAMOUS, is how widely the world knows a name: how recognisable a person's name, face or work is, and how well people know who they are. It is assessed from extensive historical and current public data, some of it reaching back more than twenty years, and it is not merit, talent, importance or popularity on iFANN. The rankings model real-world global fame, not internet fame; the data is the instrument, not the subject. Activity on iFANN itself is excluded.

    The month in the title is the date of this edition, not the period measured. The list is a snapshot of overall fame as it stood when the issue was frozen: a name does not lose its place because one month was quiet, and a trending moment alone does not put a name here. Trending attention is published separately on ifann.net.

    How the list was ranked

    The iFANN Global Fame Rankings combine worldwide Wikipedia readership across languages, worldwide news coverage and search interest anchored against stable reference names, with search history reaching back to 2004. A twelve-month baseline sits behind the current reading and short-lived surges are capped, so the list reflects durable recognition rather than one week of headlines. Rankings are computed daily on ifann.net and frozen on the second day of the following month as that month's issue; a published issue never changes.

    About Western Comics

    Western Comics is one of the sectors the journal ranks every month, alongside every country, origin and region list in this issue. Sector lists use the same rankings and the same scale as The 100, so a name can be compared across sectors and against the world. American and European comics outside the Marvel / DC umbrella.

    Powered by iFANN

    iFAMOUS is published by iFANN and powered by the iFANN Global Fame Rankings v5.70. Today's live standing for this list is on ifann.net; the journal freezes it once a month so it can be cited permanently.

    Related searches: most famous comic book creators in the world 2026, top comic book creators September 2026, comic book creators fame ranking, most famous comic book creators alive.

    Cite as
    "Stan Lee, No. 1 on The Most Famous Comic Book Creators in the World", iFAMOUS No. 2 (September 2026), ifamous.org

    This scope in the journal

    Related lists