- See also: List of comic strips.
[edit] Notable cartoonists - In alphabetical order
Notable cartoonists include: - Henfil, Brazilian cartoonist
- Hergé, Tintin
- Loriot
- Peyo, The Smurfs, Steven Strong, Johan and Peewit
- Quino (Joaquín Salvador Lavado), Mafalda, often regarded as the foremost Latin-American cartoonist and a fierce social satirist
- Siné
- Charles Addams, macabre cartoons featured in The New Yorker and elsewhere
- Ziraldo Alves Pinto; Brazilian cartoonist
- Sergio Aragonés, known for his contributions to Mad Magazine
- Jim Bamber, cartoonist of Autosport, magazine specialising in motor sports
- Darrin Bell, Candorville and Rudy Park
- Oscar Berger, Aesop's Foibles (1947); active 1920s - 1960s
- Mark Beyer, Amy and Jordan, Agony
- Ed Brubaker
- Tom Bunk, cartoonist for Mad
- Al Capp, Li'l Abner
- Chester Commodore, African American political cartoonist
- Elzie Crisler Segar, Popeye
- Robert Crumb, Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, Keep on Truckin
- Abner Dean
- Richard Decker, The New Yorker
- Edgar P. Jacobs, "Blake and Mortimer"
- Robert W. Edgren, American political cartoonist famous for his "Sketches from Death" from the Spanish-American War
- Will Eisner, The Spirit
- Lyonel Feininger, rare fine artist who did strips, The Kin-der-Kids and Wee Willie Winkie's World
- Virgil Franklin Partch, known as "VIP," he was a leading American gag cartoonist from the 1940s to the 1980s
- André Franquin, Spirou et Fantasio, Gaston Lagaffe
- André François
- Yuliy Abramovich Ganf, Soviet Russian
- 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
- Matt Groening, Life in Hell, The Simpsons, Futurama
- Sam Gross, for his The New Yorker work, plus many other magazines
- Martin Handford, Where's Wally?
- George Herriman, Krazy Kat
- Bill Holbrook, "On the Fastrack", "Safe Havens" and "Kevin & Kell"
- Geoff "Jeff" Hook, Australian
- Jack Davis
- Kirk Jarvinen
- Burris Jenkins, Jr., sports and editorial cartoonist for the Hearst newspaper chain
- Mike Judge, "Beavis and Butt-Head", "King Of The Hill", "The Goode Family"
- R K Laxman, cartoonist for The Times of India, India.
- John Leech, 19th-century Punch cartoonist.* Walt Kelly, Pogo
- Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid
- Heinrich Kley
- B. Kliban
- John Kricfalusi, The Ren & Stimpy Show
- Rick Law, Beyond the Veil
- Michael Leunig, Australian
- Jason_Love_(humorist), Snapshots
- Jay Lynch
- Manik, cartoonist and illustrator of Daily newspaper Prothom Alo
- Scott McCloud, Zot!, Understanding Comics
- Mario Miranda, The Economic Times, India
- Shigeru Mizuki, Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro, - Master of horror of Japanese manga
- Morris, Lucky Luke
- Ajit Ninan, India Today and The Times of India
- Paul Palnik, American Jewish cartoonist.
- Bob Penuelas, Wilbur Kookmeyer
- Bruce Petty
- Hugo Pratt, Corto Maltese
- Ratan, cartoonist and illustrator of Daily newspaper Prothom Alo
- Ronald Searle, St Trinians, Molesworth, The Rake's Progress, editorial work and more
- Sempé
- Jaiganesh Subramaniam, Indian Cartoonist
- Posy Simmonds, The Silent Three of St Botolph's, Gemma Bovery
- Mauricio de Sousa, Monica's Gang, Chuck Billy 'n' Folks, The Cavern Clan
- Art Spiegelman, author of Maus, co-editor of RAW (magazine)
- Ralph Steadman, editorial cartoonist and book illustrator
- Saul Steinberg
- Ed Subitzky, well-known mostly for his National Lampoon work, also The New York Times, etc
- Joost Swarte, a Dutch comic artist known for his ligne claire or clear line style of drawing
- Les Tanner-Political cartoonist (1927-2001)
- Howard Tayler, pioneered web-cartooning as a profession
- Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy, Phoenix - Known as the "God" of Japanese manga who defined modern Japanese cartooning
- Tom Cheney, Staff Cartoonist for The New Yorker
- Albert Uderzo, Asterix
- Willy Vandersteen, Spike and Suzy, De Rode Ridder
- Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck
- W. Heath Robinson, British satirist famous for drawings of convoluted machines, similar to Rube Goldberg
- Ben Wicks, Canadian cartoonist and illustrator: The Outsider, Wicks
[edit] Cartoonists in animation - In alphabetical order
[edit] Cartoonists of comic strips - In alphabetical order
- Kemsley, Ginger Meggs
- Scott Adams, Dilbert
- Bill Amend, FoxTrot
- John Backderf, aka Derf
- Murray Ball, Footrot Flats
- Darrin Bell, Candorville, Rudy Park
- Jack Berrill, creator of Gil Thorp
- Biff
- 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
- Al Capp, Lil Abner
- Mitch Clem, Nothing Nice to Say, San Antonio Rock City
- Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy
- Dave Coverly, Speed Bump
- Stan Cross, The Potts
- David Gilbert, Buckles
- Lyman Dally, "Max Rep: Mr. Astrotitan 2206
- J. C. Duffy, The Fusco Brothers
- Edwina Dumm
- Norm Feuti, Retail
- Bud Fisher, Mutt and Jeff
- Ham Fisher, Joe Palooka
- J.D. Frazer, User Friendly
- David Füleki, 78 Tage auf der Straße des Hasses
- George Baker, Sad Sack
- Paul Gilligan, Pooch Cafe
- Chester Gould, Dick Tracy
- Bill Griffith, Zippy the Pinhead
- Cathy Guisewite, Cathy
- Nicholas Gurewitch, Perry Bible Fellowship
- Mark Heath, Spot the Frog
- Bill Hinds, Tank McNamara, Cleats, Buzz Beamer
- Billy Ireland
- Tatsuya Ishida, Sinfest
- Jeff Wilson, The Avridge Farm
- Jim Davis, Gnorm Gnat, Garfield, U.S. Acres, a Mr. Potato Head comic strip
- Kerry G. Johnson, Harambee Hills
- Ferd Johnson, Moon Mullins
- Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse
- Eric Jolliffe, Andy
- Bil Keane, Family Circus
- Walt Kelly, Pogo
- Hank Ketcham, Dennis the Menace
- Kazu Kibuishi, Copper
- Frank King, Gasoline Alley
- Keith Knight, The K Kronicles
- Charles Kuhn, Grandma
- Fred Lasswell, Barney Google
- Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts
- Winsor McCay, Little Nemo
- Patrick McDonnell, Mutts
- Aaron McGruder, African-American creator of the controversial strip The Boondocks
- George McManus, Bringing Up Father
- Dale Messick, Brenda Starr
- Milt Caniff, Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon
- Fred Negro, Pub Strip
- Chris Onstad, Achewood
- Nina Paley, Nina's Adventures, Fluff, The Hots
- Stephan Pastis, Pearls Before Swine
- Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor, Alex
- Mike Peters, Mother Goose & Grimm
- Stan Pitt, Larry Flynn, Detective
- Warren Sattler, Grubby, Billy the Kid and Yang, as well as contributing artist for Barnaby daily, The Jackson Twins, Bringing Up Father and Hi and Lois.
- Caroll Spinney, Harvey
- Kristopher Straub, Starslip Crisis, Checkerboard Nightmare
- Richard Thompson, Cul de Sac
- Jim Toomey, Sherman's Lagoon
- Tove and Lars Jansson, The Moomins
- Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury
- Gustave Verbeek, The Upside Downs, The Terrors of the Tiny Tads
- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes, one "Critters" cartoon
- Monty Wedd, The Scorpion, Ned Kelly and Ben Hall
- Frode Øverli, Pondus
[edit] Cartoonists of single-panel cartoons (gag cartoons) - In alphabetical order
[edit] Political cartoonists [edit] Cartoonists of comic books - In alphabetical order
- 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
- Vince Deporter, DC Comics; Nickelodeon, Spirou (Belgium)
- Will Elder, Mad, Little Annie Fanny in Playboy
- Steve Fiorilla, mini-comics
- Brad W. Foster, creator of "Mechthings", mini-comics
- Vernon Grant, creator of The Love Rangers
- Marc Hansen, creator of Ralph Snart
- Al Jaffee, Mad, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.
- Pran Kumar Sharma, Chacha Chaudhary
- Harvey Kurtzman, founding editor of Mad, one of the most influential comic artists of all time
- Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee!, I Feel Sick, Everything can be Beaten, Fillerbunny, Bad art Collection, Happy Noodle Boy
- Brad W. Foster, "The Mechthings", "Adventures of Olivia",mini-comics
- Wally Wood, Mad
[edit] Cartoonists of action/superhero comic books - In alphabetical order
- Kyle Baker, creator of Why I Hate Saturn
- 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
- Frank Miller, creator of Sin City
- Jack Cole, creator of Plastic Man, later set the style for cartoons in Playboy
- Jeff Smith, creator of Bone
- Jim McDermott
- 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
- Erik Larsen, creator of Savage Dragon
- Shawn McManus
- Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy
- James O'Barr - creator of The Crow
- Paul Palnik, creator of The God of Cartoons
- Dave Sim - creator of Cerebus
- Elito V. Circa, Pantabangan Folk Artist
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