List of cartoonists
- See also: List of comic strips.
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Notable cartoonists
Notable cartoonists include:
- Pete Abrams, Sluggy Freelance
- Charles Addams, macabre cartoons featured in The New Yorker and elsewhere
- Murray Ball, Footrot Flats
- Darrin Bell, Candorville and Rudy Park
- Oscar Berger, Aesop's Foibles (1947); active 1920s - 1960s
- Mark Beyer, Amy and Jordan, Agony
- Ed Brubaker
- Max Cannon, Red Meat Contemporary American
- Chester Commodore, African American political cartoonist
- Robert Crumb, Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, Keep on Truckin
- Jack Davis
- Abner Dean
- Will Eisner, The Spirit
- Lyonel Feininger, rare fine artist who did strips, Kin-der Kids and Wee Willie Winkie's World
- Steve Fiorilla
- André François
- André Franquin, Spirou et Fantasio, Gaston Lagaffe
- Yuliy Abramovich Ganf, Soviet Russian
- John Glashan, Genius
- Sid Glenar
- Rube Goldberg, Cartoons of complex and convoluted machines doing very simple tasks.
- Larry Gonick, The Cartoon History of the Universe series, Kokopelli & Company
- Matt Groening, Life in Hell, The Simpsons, Futurama
- Martin Handford, Where's Wally?
- Henfil, Brazilian cartoonist
- Hergé, Tintin
- George Herriman, Krazy Kat
- Bill Holbrook, "On the Fastrack", "Safe Havens" and "Kevin & Kell"
- Geoff "Jeff" Hook, Australian
- Edgar P. Jacobs, "Blake and Mortimer"
- Mike Judge, "Beavis and Butt-Head", "King Of The Hill"
- Heinrich Kley
- B. Kliban
- Rick Law, Beyond the Veil
- John Leech, 19th century 'Punch' cartoonist.
- Michael Leunig, Australian
- R K Laxman, Cartoonist for The Times of India, India.
- Loriot
- Jay Lynch
- Scott McCloud, Zot, Understanding Comics
- Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy", American Dad
- Shigeru Mizuki, Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro, - Master of horror of Japanese manga
- Morris, Lucky Luke
- Paul Palnik, The God of Cartoons American Jewish cartoon prophet.
- Virgil Partch, known as "VIP," he was a leading American gag cartoonist from the 1940s to the 1980s
- Bob Penuelas, Wilbur Kookmeyer
- Bruce Petty
- Peyo, The Smurfs, Steven Strong, Johan and Peewit
- Ziraldo Alves Pinto; Brazilian cartoonist, creator of Menino Maluquinho
- Hugo Pratt, Corto Maltese
- Quino (Joaquín Salvador Lavado), Mafalda Often regarded as the foremost Latin-American cartoonist and a fierce social satirist.
- W. Heath Robinson, British satirist famous for drawings of convoluted machines, similar to Rube Goldberg
- Jonathan Rosenberg, Goats
- Ronald Searle, St Trinians, Molesworth, The Rake's Progress, editorial work and more
- Elzie Crisler Segar, Popeye
- Sempé
- Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive
- Posy Simmonds, The Silent Three of St Botolph's, Gemma Bovery
- Siné
- Art Spiegelman, author of Maus, co-editor of RAW (magazine)
- Ralph Steadman, editorial cartoonist and book illustrator
- Uli Stein, Mice
- Saul Steinberg
- Howard Tayler, pioneered web-cartooning as a profession.
- Les Tanner-Political cartoonist (1927-2001)
- Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy, Phoenix - Known as the "god" of Japanese manga, who practically defined modern Japanese cartooning
- Albert Uderzo, Asterix
- Willy Vandersteen, Spike and Suzy, De Rode Ridder
- Ben Wicks, well known Canadian cartoonist and illustrator. Strips include The Outsider, Wicks
Animated cartoonists
- Tex Avery
- Art Babbitt
- Frederic Back
- Ralph Bakshi
- Joseph Barbera
- Don Bluth
- Tim Burton
- Bob Clampett
- Les Clark
- Gabor Csupo
- Shamus Culhane
- Arthur Davis
- Marc Davis
- Gene Deitch
- Andreas Deja
- Walt Disney
- Ed Emshwiller
- Norm Ferguson
- Friz Freleng
- Eric Goldberg
- Dave Hand
- William Hanna
- Rudolf Ising
- Wilfred Jackson
- Ollie Johnston
- Chuck Jones
- Milt Kahl
- Glen Keane
- Ward Kimball
- John Kricfalusi
- Kutty
- Eric Larson
- John Lasseter
- John Lounsbery
- Ham Luske
- Winsor McCay
- Robert McKimson
- Fred Moore
- Joe Murray
- Grim Natwick
- Bill Plympton
- Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman
- Herbert "Herbie" Ryman
- Ben Sharpsteen
- Tom Sito
- Frank Tashlin
- Richard Taylor Green Springs Cartoons
- Frank Thomas
- Bill Tytla
- Richard Williams
Cartoonists of comic strips
- Scott Adams, Dilbert
- Bill Amend, Fox Trot
- John Backderf, aka Derf, Derf City
- George Baker, Sad Sack
- Darrin Bell, Candorville, Rudy Park
- Jack Berrill, Gil Thorp
- Berke Breathed, Bloom County (1980's American social-polticial), Outland, Opus
- David Breger, G.I. Joe
- Dik Browne, Hi and Lois, Hagar the Horrible
- Ernie Bushmiller, Nancy
- Milt Caniff, Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon
- Al Capp, Lil Abner
- Dave Coverly, Speed Bump
- Stan Cross, The Potts and Wally and the Major
- Jim Davis, Garfield
- Bud Fisher, Mutt and Jeff
- Ham Fisher, Joe Palooka
- J.D. Frazer, User Friendly
- Chester Gould, Dick Tracy
- Bill Griffith, Zippy the Pinhead
- Cathy Guisewite, Cathy
- Nicholas Gurewitch, Perry Bible Fellowship
- Tove and Lars Jansson, The Moomins
- Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse
- Eric Jolliffe, Andy
- Walt Kelly, Pogo
- Kemsley, Ginger Meggs
- Hank Ketcham, Dennis the Menace
- Frank King, Gasoline Alley
- Keith Knight, The K Kronicles
- Fred Lasswell, Barney Google
- Winsor McCay, Little Nemo
- Patrick McDonnell, Mutts
- George McManus, Bringing up Father
- Dale Messick, Brenda Starr
- Steve Nease, Pud
- Fred Negro, Pub Strip
- Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor, Alex
- Stan Pitt, Larry Flynn, Detective
- Warren Sattler, Grubby, Billy the Kid, Yang, Fightin' Army, Fightin' Marines and Swamp Brats as well as contributing artist for Barnaby daily, The Jackson Twins, Bringing Up Father, Comics for Kids and Hi and Lois.
- Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts
- Caroll Spinney, Harvey
- Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury
- Gustave Verbeek, The Upside Downs, The Terrors of the Tiny Tads
- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
- Monty Wedd, The Scorpion, Bert and Ned, Tod Trail, Kirk Raven, Ned Kelly, Sword and Sabre, Captain Justice, Ben Hall and The Making of a Nation
- Jeff Wilson, The Avridge Farm
- KC Green, Droop, Anger Pauly, and Horribleville
Cartoonists of single panel cartoons (gag cartoons)
- Charles Addams
- Ivan Brunetti
- John Callahan, Callahan
- Irwin Caplan
- Dick Cavalli
- Patrick Chappatte (Chappatte)
- Roz Chast
- Doug Davis
- Chon Day
- John Dempsey
- Mort Drucker
- Carl Giles (Giles)
- Grea
- Bill Harrison
- Ray Helle
- Tom Henderson
- Ned Hilton
- Judy Horacek
- Stan Hunt
- Al Johns
- Jeff Keate
- Hank Ketcham
- Ted Key
- Bill King
- Nick D. Kim (Nick)
- Vlad Kolarov
- Gary Larson
- Mel Lazarus
- Bill O'Malley
- Frank Owen
- Larry Reynolds
- Salo
- Vahan Shirvanian
- Chris Slane
- Ton Smits
- Syverson
- James Thurber
- Don Tobin
- Walt Wetterberg
- Herb Williams
- Gahan Wilson
- George Wolfe
- Kevin Woodcock
- Zero
Political cartoonists
- Aislin, cartoonist for the Montreal Gazette
- Naji al-Ali, Palestinian cartoonist assassinated in 1987
- Dean Alston, Australian
- Darrin Bell, American political cartoonist and comic strip cartoonist
- E. P. Unni, Indian.
- Steve Bell, contemporary British political cartoonist
- Ruben Bolling, Tom the Dancing Bug Contemporary American political
- Bordalo Pinheiro, Rafael - (1846-1905), Portuguese, creator of Zé Povinho
- Paco Calderón Mexican
- William Charles (1776–1820), American (Scottish immigrant who also worked in London)
- Peter Clark, British political cartoonist for The Guardian.
- Paul Conrad, political cartoons
- Patrick Cook, Australian
- Predrag Koraksic Corax, contemporary Serbian political cartoonist.
- Stan Cross, Australian
- Jay Norwood Darling, editorial cartoonist (two time Pulitzer Prize winner), also designed the first Federal Duck Stamp
- David Ditchburn, Australian
- Andy Donato, Canadian political cartoonist, works for the [Sun] newspaper chain.
- Mark Fiore, American political cartoonist
- William Ellis Green - Australian
- Ben Heine - Belgian
- Herblock, full name Herbert Block, longtime American cartoonist for the Washington Post, 3 times Pulitzer Prize winner
- William Hogarth, 18th century British political cartoonist
- Geoff "Jeff" Hook, Australian
- Arthur Horner - Australian political cartoonist
- John Kent - Varoomshka, New Zealand
- Bill Leak - Australian
- Michael Leunig - Australian
- David Low, political cartoonist in Britain between the World Wars, characters included Colonel Blimp.
- Bill Mauldin, Pulitzer Prize winner, gained fame as "soldiers' cartoonist" in World War 2 with his "dogfaces" Willie and Joe
- Stewart McCrae - Australian political cartoonist
- Alan Moir - Australian political cartoonist
- George Molnar - Australian political cartoonist
- Thomas Nast, first drew Republican elephant and Democratic donkey, Tammany Hall tiger, set the pattern for the modern Santa Claus
- Peter Nicholson (1946- ) - Australian political cartoonist
- Pat Oliphant, Pulitzer Prize winner, longtime contemporary American cartoonist originally from Australia
- Ward O'Neill, Australian
- Paul Palnik American, Jewish, Kabbalistic Spiritual Cartoons.
- Bruce Petty, Australian
- Geoff Pryor - Australian
- Ted Rall, contemporary American political cartoonist.
- Paul Rigby - Australian, principally associated with News Corporation newpapers
- Dan Russell
- Jim Russell
- SanjeevKD, Caricaturist, Cartoonist, Illustrator from Delhi, India
- Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel), Was a political and advertising cartoonist before and during World War II before becoming a children's author
- John Spooner - Australian
- Tom Tomorrow, This Modern World Contemporary American political cartoonist.
- Clive Uptton (1911-2006) - British
- Vicky, full name Victor Weisz (1913-66) British Socialist cartoonist, born in Berlin, of Hungarian Jewish extraction. Originated Supermac sobriquet applied to Harold Macmillan.
- Cathy Wilcox - Australian political cartoonist and illustrator
- J. Winburn - American satirical cartoonist of alternative humor & social commentary
Cartoonists of comic books
- Sergio Aragones, MAD, also the creator of GROO.
- Ben Caldwell, famous creator of the Dare Detectives.
- Dan DeCarlo, Archie, Josie and the Pussycats, Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Kim Deitch creator of Waldo The Cat and comic novels
- Bill Elder, MAD comics, Little Annie Fanny in Playboy
- Harvey Kurtzman, first editor of MAD, one of the most influential comic artists of all time
- Pran Kumar Sharma, Chacha Chaudhary
- Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee!, I Feel Sick, Everything can be Beaten, Fillerbunny, Bad art Collection, Happy Noodle Boy
- Wally Wood, MAD, both comics and magazine
- Vince Deporter, DC Comics; Nickelodeon, Spirou (Belgium)...
Cartoonists of action/superhero comic books
- Kyle Baker, creator of Why I Hate Saturn
- Elito V. Circa, Pantabangan Folk Artist
- Jack Cole, creator of Plastic Man, later set the style for cartoons in Playboy Magazine
- Alan Davis, creator of ClanDestine
- Steve Ditko, creator of many Marvel Comics, including Spider-Man and Doctor Strange with editor Stan Lee
- Will Eisner, creator of The Spirit, teacher, publisher, one of the first to popularize the term graphic novel, in his book A Contract with God
- Bob Kane, creator of The Batman with writer Bill Finger
- Jack Kirby, creator of Captain America with his partner Joe Simon, many other comics through the years
- Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy
- Frank Miller, creator of Sin City
- Paul Palnik, creator of The God of Cartoons
- James O'Barr - creator of The Crow
- Jeff Smith, creator of Bone
See also
- Editorial cartoons
- List of editorial cartoonists
- Illustrator
- mangaka (list of Japanese cartoonists)
Categories
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