List of cartoonists Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

See also: list of comic strips

Notable cartoonists include:

• Pete Abrams, Sluggy Freelance
• Charles Addams, macabre cartoons featured in The New Yorker and elsewhere
• Murray Ball, Footrot Flats
• Oscar Berger, Aesop's Foibles (1947); active 1920s - 1960s
• Ed Brubaker
• Max Cannon, Red Meat Contemporary American
• Chester Commodore, African American political cartoonist
• Robert Crumb, Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, Keep on Truckin
• Will Eisner, The Spirit
• Lyonel Feininger, rare fine artist who did strips, Kin-der Kids and Wee Willie Winkie's World
• 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 and Company''
• René Goscinny, Asterix
• Matt Groening, Life in Hell, The Simpsons, Futurama
• Martin Handford, Where's Wally
• George Herriman, Krazy Kat
• Bill Holbrook, "On The FasTrack", "Save Havens" and "Kevin & Kell;"
• B. Kliban, a major influence on Gary Larsen, Cat, biography, gallery.
• Gary Larson, Far Side.
• Rick Law, Beyond the Veil
• R K Laxman, Cartoonist for The Times of India, India.
• Michael Leunig
• Loriot
• Scott McCloud, Zot, Understanding Comics
• Virgil Partch, known as "VIP," he was a leading US gag cartoonist of the '50s and 60s
• Hugo Pratt, Corto Maltese
• 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
• Posy Simmonds, The Silent Three of St Botolph's, Gemma Bovery
• Ralph Steadman, editorial cartoonist and book illustrator
• Uli Stein, Mice
• Ben Wicks, well known Canadian cartoonist and illustrator. Strips include The Outsider, Wicks

Table of contents

1 Cartoonists of comic strips 2 Cartoonists of single panel comic strips (gag cartoons) 3 Political cartoonists 4 Cartoonist of comic books 4.1 Cartoonists of action/superhero comic books

Cartoonists of comic strips

• Scott Adams, Dilbert
• Bill Amend, Fox Trot
• Berke Breathed, Bloom County 1980's American social-polticial, Outland, Opus
• Dik Browne, Hi and Lois, Hagar the Horrible
• Ernie Bushmiller, Nancy (comic strip)
• Milt Caniff, Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon
• Al Capp, Lil Abner
• Jim Davis, Garfield
• Bill Griffith, Zippy
• Tove and Lars Jansson, The Moomins
• Lynn Johnston, For Better or for Worse
• Hank Ketcham, Dennis the Menace
• Walt Kelly, Pogo
• Frank King, Gasoline Alley
• Keith Knight, The K Kronicles
• Fred Laswell, Barney Google
• Winsor McCay, Little Nemo
• Patrick McDonnell, Mutts
• Dale Messick, Brenda Starr
• Steve Nease, Pud
• Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor, Alex
• 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
• Jeff Wilson, The Avridge Farm

Cartoonists of single panel comic strips (gag cartoons)

• Charles Addams, cartoonist for The New Yorker whose macabre fantasies became the Addams Family of film and television
• Carl Giles (Giles), single panel cartoons in the British Daily Express
• Gary Larson, The Far Side
• James Thurber, one-panel cartoons for The New Yorker magazine, also an essayist and playwright
• Ivan Brunetti, single panel cartoons in Schizo and Haw from Fantagraphics

Political cartoonists

• Steve Bell, contemporary British political cartoonist
• Ruben Bolling, Tom the Dancing Bug Contemporary American polticial
• Paul Conrad, political cartoons
• Jay Norwood Darling, editorial cartoonist (two time Pulitzer Prize winner), also designed the first Federal Duck Stamp
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Steve Nease, Metroland newspaper chain
• Pat Oliphant, Pulitzer prize winner, longtime contemporary American cartoonist originally from Australia.
• Matt Pritchett, (Matt) single panel political cartoons in the British Daily Telegraph
• Ted Rall, contemporary American political cartoonist.
• Tom Tomorrow, This Modern World Current contemporary American politicial 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.

Cartoonist of comic books

• 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

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
• Jack Kirby, creator of Captain America with his partner Joe Simon, many other comics through the years

See also: list of illustrators

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