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This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons. This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch magazine in the 1840s - artists working earlier than that are more correctly termed 'caricaturists',

Notable cartoonists

Scott Adams, Dilbert
Charles Addams (1938–1988), macabre cartoons featured in The New Yorker and elsewhere
Attila Adorjany
Sarah Andersen, known for Sarah's Scribbles
Barry Appleby
Sergio Aragonés, known for his contributions to Mad
Graciela Aranis (1908–1996), Chilean painter, cartoonist
Peter Arno (1904–1968), cartoons featured in The New Yorker and elsewhere
Arotxa (Rodolfo Arotxarena)
Jim Bamber, cartoonist of Autosport, magazine specialising in motor sports
Edgar Henry Banger
Carl Barks, inventor of Duckburg and many of its characters like Scrooge McDuck and Gladstone Gander; Fantagraphics Books called him "the Hans Christian Andersen of comic books."^[1]
Sumanta Baruah
Aminollah Rezaei
Niko Barun
Nancy Beiman, "FurBabies"
Darrin Bell, Candorville and Rudy Park
Steve Bell, The Guardian (UK)
Stephen Bentley, "Herb and Jamaal"
Jim Benton, known for his cartoons on reddit, GoComics, and Instagram as well as It's Happy Bunny,Dear Dumb Diary,Franny K Stein,Catwad,Batman Squad,Attack of the Stuff
Oscar Berger, Aesop's Foibles (1947); active 1920s–1960s
Mark Beyer, Amy and Jordan, Agony
Brumsic Brandon Jr., "Luther"; with his daughter Barbara Brandon-Croft, first family of cartoonists (father/daughter) to each be nationally syndicated in the U.S. mainstream press
Barbara Brandon-Croft, "Where I'm Coming From"; first Black woman cartoonist to be nationally syndicated in the U.S. mainstream press
Berkeley Breathed, Bloom County and Outland
Frédéric-Antonin Breysse
Ed Brubaker
Henry Bunbury 18th Century British caricaturist
Tom Bunk, cartoonist for Mad
Stanley Burnside, Sideburns^[2]
Mark Burrier
John Byrne
Al Capp, Li'l Abner
Tom Cheney, staff cartoonist for The New Yorker
Edgar Church
Chester Commodore, political cartoonist
George Cruikshank 19th Century British caricaturist
Isaac Cruikshank 18th Century British caricaturist
Isaac Robert Cruikshank 19th Century British caricaturist
Robert Crumb, Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, Keep on Truckin'
Natalie d'Arbeloff
Jack Davis
Jim Davis, Garfield
Abner Dean
Arifur Rahman
Narayan Debnath, Indian cartoonist known for Handa Bhonda, Bantul the Great, and Nonte Phonte
Richard Decker, The New Yorker
Walt Disney, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck
Ralph Waddell Douglass
Stan Drake
George du Maurier, also the author of Trilby
Robert W. Edgren, American political cartoonist known for his "Sketches from Death" from the Spanish–American War
Will Eisner, The Spirit
Otto Eppers
Charles Evenden
Lyonel Feininger, rare fine artist who did strips, The Kin-der-Kids and Wee Willie Winkie's World
Rod Filbrandt
David Fletcher
Ellen Forney
André François
André Franquin, Spirou et Fantasio, Gaston Lagaffe, Marsupilami
Yuliy Abramovich Ganf, Soviet Russian
Eddie Germano
Denis Gifford, strips in Whizzer and Chips, Knockout, Marvelman
Carl Giles
James Gillray, 18th century British, called "the father of the political cartoon".
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
Cleven "Goodie" Goudeau, known for his pioneering Afrocentric images on greeting cards
Jimmy Gownley, Amelia Rules! series, Simon & Schuster
Bud Grace, "Ernie/Piranha Club"
Mel Graff, “The Adventures of Patsy”, “Secret Agent X-9”
Matt Groening, Life in Hell, The Simpsons, Futurama
Sam Gross, for his The New Yorker work, plus many other magazines
Shekhar Gurera, well known for his quirky cartoons about India's political and social trends
William Haefeli
Martin Handford, Where's Wally?
Steven Harris
Butch Hartman, The Fairly OddParents, T.U.F.F. Puppy, Danny Phantom, Bunsen Is a Beast
Andrew Kennaway Henderson
Henfil, Brazilian cartoonist
Hergé, The Adventures of Tintin
George Herriman, Krazy Kat
Herblock American cartoonist
Watson Heston
Stephen Hillenburg (1961–2018), SpongeBob SquarePants
Bill Hinds, "Tank McNamara"
Dick Hodgins, Jr.
William Hogarth, English pictorial satirist and editorial cartoonist; credited with pioneering western sequential art; work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip
Bill Holbrook, On the Fastrack, Safe Havens, and Kevin and Kell
Nicole Hollander, Sylvia
John Holmstrom
Geoff "Jeff" Hook, Australian
George William Houghton, British golf cartoonist
Jim Hummel
Edgar Pierre Jacobs, Blake and Mortimer
Al Jaffee, Mad
Kirk Jarvinen
S. Jithesh, World's Fastest Performing Cartoonist
Herbert Johnson
Mike Judge, Beavis and Butt-head, King of the Hill, The Goode Family
Arja Kajermo
Avi Katz
Bil Keane, "Family Circus"
Jeff Keane. "Family Circus"
Walt Kelly, Pogo
Rik Kemp
Molly Kiely
Wyncie King
Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Rick Kirkman, "Baby Blues"
Heinrich Kley
B. Kliban
John Kricfalusi, The Ren & Stimpy Show
Abril Lamarque
Gary Larson, The Far Side
Rick Law, Beyond the Veil
R K Laxman, cartoonist for The Times of India, India
Mell Lazarus. "Momma, Miss Peach"
John Leech, 19th-century Punch cartoonist
Jonathan Lemon, Alley Oop
Michael Leunig, Australian
Arnold Levin
David Liljemark
Neil Lonsdale (1907–1989), New Zealand editorial cartoonist
David Low, New Zealand political cartoonist and caricaturist
Jay Lynch
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, South Park
Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy, American Dad!, The Cleveland Show
Manjul, India Today, The Economic Times and Daily News and Analysis
Bob Mankoff, The New Yorker
Jack Markow
Enrico Mazzanti
Scott McCloud, Zot!, Understanding Comics
Aaron McGruder, The Boondocks
Ronald Michaud
Yevgeniy Migunov
Mario Miranda, The Economic Times, India
Shigeru Mizuki, Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro, master of horror of Japanese manga
Guillermo Mordillo
Arthur Moreland
Lorin Morgan-Richards
Morris, Lucky Luke
Joe Murray, Rocko's Modern Life and Camp Lazlo!
Rachel Nabors
Ogden Nash
Nigar Nazar, first female cartoonist of the Muslim world, creator of cartoon character "Gogi"
Roy Nelson
Richard Newton, 18th century British caricaturist
Mana Neyestani, Iranian cartoonist
Ajit Ninan, India Today and The Times of India
Floyd Norman
Murray Olderman, sports columnist, author of 14 books, National Cartoonist Society Sports Cartoon Award for 1974 and 1978
Jack Edward Oliver
Jackie Ormes, "Torchy Brown in 'Dixie to Harlem", "Candy", "Patty-Jo 'n' Ginger", "Torchy in 'Hearbeats'"; first Black woman cartoonist to be published nationally in the U.S. (not via syndication)
Bruce Ozella
Paul Palnik, American Jewish cartoonist
Gary Panter
Virgil Franklin Partch, known as "VIP;" leading American gag cartoonist from the 1940s to the 1980s
Alan Stuart Paterson, New Zealand cartoonist
Andrea Pazienza
René Pellos, French cartoonist
Bob Penuelas, Wilbur Kookmeyer
Camillus Perera
Bruce Petty
Peyo, The Smurfs, Steven Strong, Johan and Peewit
S. D. Phadnis, Indian cartoonist
Ziraldo Alves Pinto, Brazilian cartoonist
Hugo Pratt, Corto Maltese
Ken Pyne
Quino (Joaquín Salvador Lavado), Argentine cartoonist and social satirist, known for Mafalda
Jacki Randall
Roy Raymonde, 20th Century English cartoonist whose work appeared principally in Punch (magazine) and Playboy
Bob Rich, American award-winning cartoonist
W. Heath Robinson, British satirist known for drawings of convoluted machines, similar to Rube Goldberg
Christine Roche
Artie Romero
Ed "Big Daddy" Roth
Thomas Rowlandson 18th Century British caricaturist
Martin Rowson British political cartoonist
Øystein Runde
Malik Sajad Indian cartoonist, author of graphic novel Munnu - A Boy from Kashmir'
Armando Salas
Gerald Scarfe ( political)
Jerry Scott, "Baby Blues, Zits"
Ronald Searle, St Trinians, Molesworth, The Rake's Progress, editorial work
Elzie Crisler Segar, Popeye
Sempé
Claude Serre
James Affleck Shepherd
Lee Sheppard
Gilbert Shelton
Mahmoud Shokraye
Shel Silverstein
Posy Simmonds, The Silent Three of St Botolph's, Gemma Bovery
Siné
Vishavjit Singh
Jeff Smith, Bone, RASL, Shazam!: The Monster Society of Evil, Little Mouse Gets Ready
Mauricio de Sousa, Monica's Gang, Chuck Billy 'n' Folks, The Cavern Clan
Art Spiegelman, author of Maus; co-editor of RAW magazine
Dan Spiegle
George Sprod, Punch and other publications
Ralph Steadman, editorial cartoonist and book illustrator
Ralph Stein
Saul Steinberg
Jay Stephens
Matt Stone, with Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
Jakob Martin Strid
Ed Subitzky, known for his National Lampoon work, also The New York Times
Joost Swarte, Dutch comic artist known for his ligne claire or clear line style of drawing
Betty Swords
Les Tanner, political cartoonist
Howard Tayler, pioneered web-cartooning as a profession
Raina Telgemeier
Osamu Tezuka, Astro Boy, Phoenix; known as the "God" of Japanese manga who defined modern Japanese cartooning
Bal Thackeray, formed a political party in India
Lefred Thouron
Morrie Turner, credited with the first multicultural syndicated cartoon strip
Albert Uderzo, Asterix
Jim Unger, Canadian cartoonist: Herman
Willy Vandersteen, Spike and Suzy, De Rode Ridder
Joan Vizcarra
Vicco von Bülow, Loriot
Keith Waite, New Zealand-born English editorial cartoonist
Mort Walker, Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois
Arthur Watts
Ben Wicks, Canadian cartoonist and illustrator: The Outsider, Wicks
S. Clay Wilson, Zap Comix, Underground Comix
Shannon Wright
Rhie Won-bok
Bianca Xunise, "Six Chix"; first nonbinary cartoonist to be nationally syndicated in the U.S. mainstream press
Art Young
José Zabala-Santos
Zapiro

Cartoonists of comic strips

Scott Adams, Dilbert
Alex Akerbladh
Bill Amend, FoxTrot
George Baker, Sad Sack
Tom Batiuk, Funky Winkerbean
Murray Ball, Footrot Flats
Darrin Bell, Candorville, Rudy Park
Stephen Bentley, "Herb and Jamaal"
Jerry Bittle
Boulet, pseudonym of French cartoonist Gilles Roussel
Brumsic Brandon Jr., "Luther"
Barbara Brandon-Croft, "Where I'm Coming From"
Berkeley Breathed, Bloom County (1980s American social-political), Outland, Opus
Dave Breger, Mister Breger
Dik Browne, Hi and Lois, Hägar the Horrible
Ernie Bushmiller, Nancy
Milton Caniff, Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon
Al Capp, Li'l Abner
Ad Carter, Just Kids
Jok Church, You Can With Beakman and Jax
Francis Cleetus, It's Geek 2 Me
Mitch Clem, Nothing Nice to Say, San Antonio Rock City
Darby Conley, Get Fuzzy
Joan Cornellà
Dave Coverly, Speed Bump
Max Crivello
Alex Raymond, Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim, Rip Kirby
Stan Cross, The Potts
Stacy Curtis, Cul de Sac
Lyman Dally, Max Rep
Harry Grant Dart
Lou Darvas
Jim Davis, Gnorm Gnat, Garfield, U.S. Acres, a Mr. Potato Head comic strip
Reginald Ben Davis
Derf Backderf (John Backderf)
Brad Diller
J. C. Duffy, The Fusco Brothers
Edwina Dumm
Frank Dunne
Benita Epstein, Six Chix
Larry Feign, The World of Lily Wong
Norm Feuti, Retail
George Fett, Sniffy and Norbert
Charles Fincher, creator of Thadeus & Weez and The Daily Scribble
Bud Fisher, Mutt and Jeff
Ham Fisher, Joe Palooka
Evelyn Flinders, The Silent Three
Harold Rudolf Foster, Prince Valiant and Tarzan
J.D. Frazer, User Friendly
David Füleki, 78 Tage auf der Straße des Hasses
Paul Gilligan, Pooch Cafe
Erich von Götha de la Rosière
Chester Gould, Dick Tracy
Bud Grace, "Ernie/Piranha Club", "Babs and Aldo"
Mel Graff, “The Adventures of Patsy”, “Secret Agent X-9”
Bill Griffith, Zippy the Pinhead
Cathy Guisewite, Cathy
Nicholas Gurewitch, Perry Bible Fellowship
Alex Hallatt
Johnny Hart, B.C., The Wizard of Id
Bill Hinds, Tank McNamara, Cleats, Buzz Beamer
Bill Holman, Smokey Stover
Daniel Hulet
Billy Ireland
Tatsuya Ishida, Sinfest
Tove and Lars Jansson, The Moomins
Ferd Johnson, Moon Mullins
Kerry G. Johnson, Harambee Hills, caricaturist and children's book illustrator
Russell Johnson, Mister Oswald
Lynn Johnston, For Better or For Worse
Eric Jolliffe, Andy
Bil Keane, Family Circus
Jeff Keane, Family Circus
Walt Kelly, Pogo
James Kemsley, Ginger Meggs
Hank Ketcham, Dennis the Menace
Kazu Kibuishi, Copper
Frank King, Gasoline Alley
Rick Kirkman, "Baby Blues"
Keith Knight, The K Kronicles
Charles Kuhn, Grandma
Fred Lasswell, Barney Google
Mell Lazarus, "Momma, Miss Peach"
Virginio Livraghi
Les Lumsdon, "Basil", "Nipper", "Caspar"
Edgar Martin
Clifford McBride, Napoleon
Winsor McCay, Little Nemo
Patrick McDonnell, Mutts
Brian McFadden, Big Fat Whale
Aaron McGruder, creator of the controversial strip The Boondocks
George McManus, Bringing Up Father
Caesar Meadows
Dale Messick, Brenda Starr
Tim Molloy
Bill Murray, Sonny Boy
Fred Negro, Pub Strip
Chris Onstad, Achewood
Jackie Ormes, "Torchy Brown in 'Dixie to Harlem'", "Torchy in 'Heartbeats'"
Phil Ortiz
Frode Øverli, Pondus
Nina Paley, Nina's Adventures, Fluff, The Hots
Brant Parker, The Wizard of Id
Stephan Pastis, Pearls Before Swine
Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor, Alex
Mike Peters, Mother Goose & Grimm
Keats Petree
Stan Pitt, Larry Flynn, Detective
Vic Pratt
Dariush Ramezani
John Rivas, Bonzzo
Valentina Romeo, Jonathan Steele, Dylan Dog, Morgan Lost, Nathan Never
Leigh Rubin, Rubes
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
Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts, Young Pillars
Jerry Scott, "Baby Blues, Zits, Nancy"
Caroll Spinney, Harvey
Lee W. Stanley, The Old Home Town
Kris Straub, Starslip Crisis, Checkerboard Nightmare
Henry Matthew Talintyre
Harold Tamblyn-Watts
Russell Taylor and Charles Peattie, Alex
Richard Thompson, Cul de Sac
Jim Toomey, Sherman's Lagoon
Harry J. Tuthill, The Bungle Family
Gustave Verbeek, The Upside Downs, The Terrors of the Tiny Tads
Mort Walker, Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Bob Weber, Moose & Molly
Monty Wedd, Ned Kelly
Alex Williams, Queen's Counsel
Tom Wilson, Ziggy

Cartoonists of single-panel cartoons

Cartoonists of comic books

Carlo Ambrosini
Jack Herbert
Sergio Aragonés, Mad; creator of Groo the Wanderer
Daniel A. Baker
Ken Battefield
Jim Benton, Catwad,Batman Squad,Attack of the Stuff
Bill Benulis, War is Hell
Steve Bialik
François Bourgeon, Le Cycle de Cyann
Anna Brandoli
Reg Bunn
Ben Caldwell, creator of the Dare Detectives
Aldo Capitanio
Onofrio Catacchio
Domitille Collardey
Carlo Cossio, Dick Fulmine
Jason Craig
Hugleikur Dagsson
Dame Darcy, creator of Meat Cake
Patryck de Froidmont
Gianni De Luca, Commissario Spada
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)
Julie Doucet, creator of Dirty Plotte, My New York Diary
Will Elder, Mad, Little Annie Fanny in Playboy
Steve Fiorilla, mini-comics
Andy Fish
Brad W. Foster, creator of Mechthings mini-comics, The Mechthings, Adventures of Olivia mini-comics
Chandra Free
Vernon Grant, creator of The Love Rangers
Dick Hafer
Marc Hansen, creator of Ralph Snart
Los Bros Hernandez, creators of Love and Rockets
Don Hillsman II
Yvonne Hutton
Al Jaffee, Mad, Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions
Robyn E. Kenealy
Helena Klakocar
Andrea Kruis
Harvey Kurtzman, founding editor of Mad
Antonio Lara de Gavilán
Selena Lin
Craig McKay
Mark Marderosian
David Messer, adaptations of Macbeth and the Tempest
Erika Moen
Colonel Moutarde
Art Nugent
Gaman Palem
Fung Chin Pang
Power Paola
Eduardo Vañó Pastor
Craig Phillips
Darren Sanchez
Seth, creator of Palookaville
Ravi Shankar
Pran Kumar Sharma, Chacha Chaudhary
Jeff Smith, Bone Book
Cal Sobrepeña
Fermín Solís
Hans Steinbach
Kazimir Strzepek
Ramon Torrents
Przemysław Truściński
Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Squee!, I Feel Sick, Everything Can be Beaten, Fillerbunny, Bad Art Collection, Happy Noodle Boy
Wally Wood, Mad
Chao Yat
Carlos Zéfiro
Laura Zuccheri, Ken Parker, Julia-le avventure di una criminologa

Cartoonists of action/superhero comic books

Kyle Baker, creator of Why I Hate Saturn
Barry Bradfield, Batman: The Animated Homepage
Jack Cole, creator of Plastic Man, later set the style for cartoons in Playboy
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, and many other comics
Erik Larsen, creator of Savage Dragon
Rob Liefeld, creator of Deadpool and Youngblood
Jim McDermott
Todd McFarlane, creator of Spawn
Shawn McManus
Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy
Frank Miller, creator of Sin City
James O'Barr, creator of The Crow
Paul Palnik, creator of The God of Cartoons
Whilce Portacio
Humberto Ramos
Roberto Raviola, creator of La Compagnia della Forca
Shelby Robertson
Alberto Saichann
Tim Sale
Horacio Sandoval
Marc Silvestri, creator of Cyberforce and The Darkness
Dave Sim, creator of Cerebus
Jeff Smith, creator of Bone
Ed Tourriol
Alain Voss

See also

References

^ A Timeless Classic For All Ages - Fantagraphics Books
^ Ruprecht, Alvina Roberta; Taiana, Cecilia (1995). Reordering of Culture: Latin America, the Caribbean and Canada in the Hood. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 415. ISBN 978-0-88629-269-0.
^ Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association, Austin, Texas. https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook

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