List of cartoonists
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"
- 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
Cartoonists of comic strips
- Scott Adams, Dilbert
- Bill Amend, Fox Trot
- Berke Breathed, Bloom County 1980's American social-polticial
- 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
- Steve Nease, Pud
- Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor, Alex
- Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts
- Caroll Spinney, Harvey
- Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury
- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
- Jeff Wilson, The Avridge Farm
Cartoonists of single panel comic strips (gag cartoons)
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
- 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
- William Hogarth, 18th century British 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
- 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
- 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
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
