I've also enjoyed breaking music down into movements, almost sub-genre stuff. I think it's the history dork in me. For instance, I love to look at the mid-sixties and talk about 'garage rock' bands like the Sonics or the Standells or to look at 'surf rock' bands like Dick Dale or the Beach Boys from the early sixties.
Comic book writing can be similarly broken down, I feel.
British Invasion - Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Warren Ellis, Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, Garth Ennis - these group tends to take a more adult approach to comic writing, often introducing religious and spiritual themes and undercurrents to their work (from Moore remaking Swamp Thing into an Earth Elemental to Ennis' most famous work Preacher).
X-odus - Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlene, Rob Liefeld, Jim Lee, Whilce Portacio, Jim Valentino, Marc Silvestri - this is the group that defined the ninties, mostly working on X-Men books hence the X in their title. Then they all left to form Image Comics, hence the Exodus pun. For the most part, their stories tend to focus on visuals over narrative (I'd say Larsen is the best exception to this rule).
Crime Writers - Brian Michael Bendis, Ed Brubaker, Brian Azzarello, Greg Rucka - these guys tend to write realistic stories with a great ear for dialogue. Often this group tends to a 'gritty, urban' style but not necessarily. Their writing also tends to do better when taken into a larger picture, for example Azzarello's 100 Bullets or Rucka's Queen and Country.
Continuity Heads - Kurt Busiek, Mark Waid, Mark Gruenwald - These are the guys who grew up reading the books and tend to really know the characters. They can throw in something that will pay off something that's been dangling for years because you get the feeling that it was truly plaguing them (even if no one else gave a hoot). They also tend to have a great understanding of how the comic world is structured, playing off pre-concieved notions as well as tweaking things to fit together better.
Filmmakers-cum-Writers - Kevin Smith, J. Michael Straczynski, Damon Lindelof, Bryan Singer, Allan Heinberg - these are some of the more famous writers outside of comics (I'd argue that the British Invasion group is the most famous inside comics). They tend to be given a bit of free range on their work because of their name power and they tend to take advantage of that by having their stories be fast paced pop-culture filled adventures where huge things can be at stake.
"Coolafiers" - Frank Tieri, Judd Winick - Before I get going, let me start off by saying I hate to put Winick's name in this group (his autobiography Pedro & Me breaks my heart, Barry Ween is top-notch and I also love his run on Exiles. However, once he went to DC, he joined this list). This is a group that tends to think that they can take a character and update them and make them cool. Similar to continuity heads, except where they might streamline the character and let the innate coolness radiate from within, these guys add emotional baggage to try and 'improve' the character (for example, making Black Lightening choke a man to death). This often makes the characters clunky and takes them further away from what made them great in the first place.
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