List of cartoonists

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Contents

1 Notable cartoonists

1.1 Animated cartoonists
1.2 Cartoonists of comic strips
1.3 Cartoonists of single panel cartoons (gag cartoons)
1.4 Political cartoonists
1.5 Cartoonists of comic books

1.5.1 Cartoonists of action/superhero comic books

2 See also

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

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)

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