Aron Wiesenfeld (born 12 August 1972) is an American painter, illustrator and comic book artist based in San Diego, California.
He began drawing at an early age and received lessons in painting and etching from his grandmother, Betsey Straub Wiesenfeld, a noted watercolor artist.
[6] Wiesenfeld left the comic book industry in 1998 but returned for a brief period in the early 2000s for a run of painted cover art for DC/Vertigo titles such as Y: The Last Man, Crusades, and Fables.
[10] In 2014, Daniel Maidman reviewed Wiesenfeld's works in The Huffington Post and compared them to the early 20th-century surrealist artist René Magritte.
[2] The film director Guillermo del Toro wrote of Wiesenfeld's paintings: "Like Hopper he is concerned with solitude, like Magritte he is bewitched by mystery".
[18] Wiesenfeld has credited a number of mid-19th century painters as sources of inspiration for his work, such as Caspar David Friedrich, Camille Corot, J. W. Waterhouse, and Puvis de Chavannes.
[4] He also maintains admiration for the comic artists who initially inspired him such as Edward Gorey, Mike Mignola, Frank Miller, Chris Ware, and Robert Crumb.