List of cartoonists
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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
- Will Eisner, The Spirit
- Lyonel Feininger, rare fine artist who did strips, Kin-der Kids and Wee Willie Winkie's World
- Steve Fiorilla
- Ziraldo Alves Pinto;brazilian cartoonist,creator of Menino Maluquinho
- Quino;argentinian cartoonist,creator of Mafalda
- André François
- André Franquin, Spirou, Gaston Lagaffe
- Yuliy Abramovich Ganf, Soviet Russian
- Brian Giovannini, Postage Due
- John Glashan, Genius
- Rube Goldberg, Cartoons of complex and convoluted machines doing very simple tasks.
- Larry Gonick, The Cartoon History of the Universe series, Kokopelli & Company
- René Goscinny, Asterix
- Doug Davis, Just One of Those Days,and Small World
- 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", "Save 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
- Gary Larson, Far Side.
- 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, Benoit Brisefer, Johan et Pirlouit
- 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, Astroboy, Phoenix - Known as the "god" of Japanese manga, who practically defined modern Japanese cartooning
- Ben Wicks, well known Canadian cartoonist and illustrator. Strips include The Outsider, Wicks
Animated cartoonists
- Ralph Bakshi
- Tex Avery
- Art Babbitt
- Frederic Back
- Joseph Barbera
- Don Bluth
- Brett Bower, Australian
- Tim Burton
- Les Clark
- Bob Clampett
- 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
- John Lasseter
- Eric Larson
- John Lounsbery
- Ham Luske
- Winsor McCay
- Robert McKimson
- Joe Murray
- Fred Moore
- Grim Natwick
- Bill Plympton
- Wolfgang "Woolie" Reitherman
- Herbert "Herbie" Ryman
- Ben Sharpsteen
- Tom Sito
- Frank Tashlin
- 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
- 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
- Hank Ketcham, Dennis the Menace
- Walt Kelly, Pogo
- Kemsley, Ginger Meggs
- Frank King, Gasoline Alley
- Keith Knight, The K Kronicles
- Fred Lasswell, Barney Google
- Raymond Macherot, Colonel Clifton
- 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
- Quino. Mafalda
- Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts
- Jeff Shesol, Thatch (comic strip)
- 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
- J.D. Frazer, User Friendly
Cartoonists of single panel cartoons (gag cartoons)
- Vlad Kolarov
- Doug Davis
- Charles Addams
- Ivan Brunetti
- John Callahan, Callahan
- Irwin Caplan
- Dick Cavalli
- Patrick Chappatte (Chappatte)
- Roz Chast
- Chon Day
- John Dempsey
- Mort Drucker
- Dave Gerard
- 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)
- 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
- Naji al-Ali, Palestinian cartoonist assassinated in 1987
- Dean Alston, Australian
- SanjeevKD, Caricaturist, Cartoonist, Illustrator from Delhi, India
- Darrin Bell, American political cartoonist and comic strip cartoonist
- 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
- Peter Clark, British political cartoonist for The Guardian.
- Paul Conrad, political cartoons
- Cook, Patrick (1949- ), Australian
- 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
- Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Was a political and advertising cartoonist before and during World War II before becoming a children's author
- 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
- Horner, Arthur (b. 1916) - Australian political cartoonist
- Bill Leak - Australian
- Michael Leunig - Australian
- Predrag Koraksic Corax, contemporary Serbian political cartoonist.
- 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
- McCrae, Stewart (1919- ) - Australian political cartoonist
- Moir, Alan Charles (1945- ) - Australian political cartoonist
- Molnar, George (1910-1998) - Australian political cartoonist
- Aislin, cartoonist for the Montreal Gazette
- 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
- Pryor, Geoff (1944- ) - Australian
- Ted Rall, contemporary American political cartoonist.
- Dan Russell
- Jim Russell
- Spooner, John (1946- ) - Australian
- Tom Tomorrow, This Modern World Contemporary American political cartoonist
- Vicky, full name Victor Weisz (1913-66) British Socialist cartoonist, born in Berlin, of Hungarian Jewish extraction. Originated Supermac sobriquet applied to Harold Macmillan.
- William Ellis Green - Australian
- Cathy Wilcox - Australian political cartoonist and illustrator
- J. Winburn - American satirical cartoonist of alternative humor & social commentary
- Paco Calderón Mexican
Cartoonists of comic books
- Ben Caldwell, famous creator of the Dare Detectives.
- Sergio Aragones, MAD, also the creator of GROO.
- Kim Deitch creator of Waldo The Cat and comic novels
- Bill Elder, MAD comics, Little Annie Fanny in Playboy
- Dan DeCarlo, Archie, Josie and the Pussycats, Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Harvey Kurtzman, first editor of MAD, one of the most influential comic artists of all time
- Pran Kumar Sharma, Chacha Chaudhary
- Wally Wood, MAD, both comics and magazine
- Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee!, I Feel Sick, Everything can be Beaten, Fillerbunny, Bad art Collection, Happy Noodle Boy
Cartoonists of action/superhero comic books
- Jack Cole, creator of Plastic Man, later set the style for cartoons in Playboy Magazine
- 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
- James O'Barr - creator of The Crow
- Jeff Smith, creator of Bone
- Frank Miller, creator of Sin City
- Paul Palnik, creator of The God of Cartoons
- Alan Davis, creator of ClanDestine
- Kyle Baker, creator of Why I Hate Saturn
- Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy
- Elito V. Circa, Pantabangan Folk Artist
See also
- list of illustrators
- mangaka (list of japanese cartoonists)
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