Michael Zulli

Michael Zulli (1952–2024) was an American comic book artist and illustrator, largely self-taught, whose professional art career began at fifteen. He came to comics in October 1986 with the creator-owned series The Puma Blues (with Stephen Murphy) for Mirage Studios.

He became closely associated with Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, penciling issue #13, "Men of Good Fortune" (which introduced the character Hob Gadling), and later illustrating the series' four-issue finale, "The Wake" — earning three 1996 Eisner Award nominations.

He went on to illustrate several further Gaiman collaborations, including the graphic novel Creatures of the Night and Alice Cooper's The Last Temptation, and contributed art to the Vertigo series Seekers into the Mystery. In 2011 he self-published the autobiographical graphic novel The Fracture of the Universal Boy.