For the past 16 years, Marvel Comics has recognized their top up-and-coming comic artists naming them part o𒁏f their 'Young Guns' program - and now, the༺y have a new class of artists… and a new name.

Eight artists have been✨ named as the inaugural class of Marvel's Stormbreakers🗹, spotlighting those who the publisher feels are "the next generation of elite artists in the industry."

They are:

• Pat Gleason, one of the rotating artists on Amazing Spider-Man
• Josh Cassara, artist on X-Force
• Peach Momoko, regular cover artist and subject of the 2021 book Marvel Portfolio: Peach Momoko
• Natacha Bustos, previously drew Spider-Woman and Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur
• Iban Coello, artist of the upcoming series Dark Ages and a rotating artist on Venom
• Carmen Carnero, artist of Hellions and rotating on Miles Morales: Spider-Man
• Juann Cabal, one of the rotating artists on Guardians of the Galaxy
• R.B. Silva, upcoming artist on Fantastic Four

"These eight artists have proven their unrivaled talent and passion for storytelling, and much lik🐲e Beta Ray Bill, they are truly worthy of taking up the mantle as one of Marvel's Stormbreakers, the next gener♋ation of elite artists," Cebulski continued. "We can't wait to show you all what's next. And to all our Stormbreakers – take up your hammer!"

Marvel roughl🍒y outlines this class in a two-year term, with stated plans to offer the artists "exclusive new opportunities across Marvel's publishing line."

The previous classes of Young Guns artists have also been grandfathered into the Stormbreakers program and considered "honorary Stormbreakers iജn addition to their work as Young Guns" according to Marvel.

"There's a special skill set you 𝓡need to have in order to draw comics at the highest level," Marvel Comics' executive vice president Joe Quesada says. "Like the finest illustr🐷ators, you must be able to draw anything and everything at any given moment, have the keen storytelling eye of a master film director, the ability to convey emotion in characters like the world's greatest performers, and the imagination of the greatest storytellers in history. 

"But to be a Marvel comic artist, you need all of that as well as the ability to make your characters and stories jump off the page. They need to be largeꦆr than life, yet grounded enough that we all see ourselves withinܫ them. We're thrilled to bring together Marvel's Stormbreakers, a team of super up-and-coming talents who will continue that legacy."

Tom Muller designed🦂 the Stormbreakers logo for Marvel. Here's a gallery of variant covers by🉐 the artists of Marvel's 2020 Stormbreakers.

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Editor's note: We have added a gallery of previously unreleased variant covers by the Stormbreakers artists to this article.