Lambiek is certainly one of the oldest, if not the oldest, comic shop in the world. Located in Amsterdam, it was founded by in 1968 by Kees Kousemaker.

At one level, the shop’s online presence is a webshop, a source of comics, graphic novels and related material, often hard to find, that ships worldwide. In the shop section, you can browse by genre, year, artists, writers, series or publishers; or you can search.

Within this site, however is a monumental resource that Kousemaker, along with Bas Schuddeboom and Kjell Knudde, have built over the years called the Comiclopedia. This is a compendium of information about more than 14,000 comics artists and writers, spanning multiple decades and countries.

You can search directly, or browse by name, filtered by country is you want. The pages for individual letters default to a list, but if you’re willing to be patient, you can engage the feature at upper right of the page to show images.

Each entry gives a brief but succinct description of the artist and their noted accomplishments, along with representative images.

There’s even a page for yours truly (blush) for my long running webcomic, Argon Zark!.

This is a remarkable resource that I have referred to again and again as I’ve written about comics artists on Lines and Colors.