Richard Bache "Dick" Ayers is a comic book artist and cartoonist widely respected for his dramatic storytelling skills and prolific output. Ayers is also renowned for being one of the first artists in Marvel Comics famed "Bullpen", notably as Jack Kirby's inker on many landmark Marvel Silver Age comics.
Ayers is still working full-time as an artist, and on the second volume of his autobiography in trade paperback form.
His work won him the 1985 National Cartoonists Society Award for Best Comic Book.