We did pencilers and inkers, so...(I'll again stop at ten, in no order).

Roy Thomas

Steve Englehart

Roger Stern

Paul Levitz

Geoff Johns

Cary Bates

Jim Shooter

Mark Waid

Denny O'Neil

Chuck Dixon

Comic book writers who don't draw are kinda like redheaded stepchildren in the comics industry.

That said, I've always thought Mike W. Barr was a great comics writer. His Star Trek and Batman & The Outsiders were great.

I've also liked Kurt Busiek's stuff for years. Ditto Christopher Priest and Tony Isabella.

This one is harder for me. There are writers I have really liked in the past that I haven't read any new material from in years that I may forget. There are new writers I'm enjoying now but I don't know if they will stay as all time favorites. I'll list ten in no particular order. I'll keep my listing to the writers that would draw me to buy their respective titles they are working on, current and past. This could be different next time I post.

• John Byrne
• Stan Lee
• Kurt Busiek
• Frank Miller
• Geoff Johns
• Alan Moore
• Roger Stern
• Rick Veitch
• Marv Wolfman
• Neil Gaiman

My all time favorite: Chris Claremont.

John Byrne, Roy Thomas, Frank Miller, David Michelinie, Ann Nocenti, Louise Jones/Simonson, Walt Simonson, Stan Lee, Steve Englehart, Roger Stern, Lein Wein, Doug Moench, Bill Mantlo, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Jim Shooter (when he's good, cause when he's bad, he's one of the worse), Mark Gruenwald (same comment), Marv Wolfman, Tom DeFalco (mostly for his Machine Man mini with BWS and Herb Trimpe), Denny O'Neil, etc...

Grant Morrison is very talented but too unhealthy for me. His DC work is very good none the less, even if not always of my taste. but I despise his New X-men (excepted his first arc "E for Extinction", that I liked.)

Of Jack Kirby the writer I enjoyed a lot his Ten-For saga in Machine Man.

Hm, well, I've been on a hard-boiled streak lately, so I'll start with those:

Jim Thompson
Dashiell Hammett
James Ellroy
Raymond Chandler
James Cain
Cornell Wollrich
Charles Willeford

and then, I have a big soft spot for what we're rapidly calling "classic Americana" - so, here's those:

John Steinbeck (my fave)
JD Sallinger
William Faulkner
F Scott Fitzgerald

Tip of the hat to overseas, I love :

James Joyce
James Hilton

Just got my copy of Geldof in Africa, and between that, and his autobiography, I think Geldof's writing is top-notch.

Byrne, of course.

LOL, you want litterature Mike?

Not 1 favorite, but many:

Victor Hugo, Balzac, Walter Scott, Jules Verne, Thomas Malory (and all the arthurian litterature: french prose-Lancelot, Chrétien de Troyes, Robert de Boron, etc...), Emile Zola, Alexandre Dumas, Homer, Stevenson, HG Wells, Dostoïevski, Dickens, etc...

Baudelaire, Byron, Verlaine, Hugo again, ...

Corneille, Racine, Shakespeare, Molière...

Grimm, Perrault, Andersen...

More contemporary: Ralph Ellison, Marguerite Duras, Frank Herbert, Tolkien, Edmund Hammilton, Raymond Chandler, Michael Moorcock, Robert E. Howard, Virginia Woolf, Yukio Mishima...

Favorite books: Le Morte Darthur, Ivanhoe, Journey to the center of the earth, Illusions Perdues (lost illusions), Les Fleurs du Mal, Le Cid, L' Amant (Duras' the lover), Dostoïevski's Crime et Châtiment, the french Prose-Lancelot, Mishima's Snow of Spring...

Working Right Now:

Gail Simone stands out as my favorite for current output.

Geoff Johns has been consistant but fading of late, and many worries about IC could lead to his becoming a curse word rather than a favorite writer.

Others current: at DC: JB of course - still tops in terms of bringing The Story to the table, and i'm enjoying the work of Andersen Gabrych. When it comes out, Planetary shows that Warren Ellis is CAPABLE of being one of the best Writers.

over at M***L, a few writers have managed to ease out some enjoyable reads dispite the editorial climate: Allan Heinberg, Joss Weadon, Tony Bedard, Fabian N., Dan Slott, Chrintina Weir and Nunzio DePhillips.  Claremont is still Claremont, good with the right Editorial and Artistic voices around him.  All of these are writers i would investigate whatever they were working on to some degree.

Others who sadly, don't have much current work but i look for when they do: John Ostrander, Mike W. Barr, and Roger Stern. Probalby forgetting others.