Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Scott Adams |
Cartoonist |
8-Jun-1957 |
|
Creator, Dilbert |
Charles Addams |
Cartoonist |
7-Jan-1912 |
29-Sep-1988 |
The Addams Family |
Brad Anderson |
Cartoonist |
24-May-1924 |
|
Marmaduke |
Sergio Aragones |
Cartoonist |
6-Sep-1937 |
|
Mad Magazine marginalia |
Peter Arno |
Cartoonist |
8-Jan-1904 |
22-Feb-1968 |
The New Yorker |
Tex Avery |
Cartoonist |
26-Feb-1908 |
26-Aug-1980 |
Creator of Porky Pig and Daffy Duck |
Art Babbitt |
Cartoonist |
8-Oct-1907 |
4-Mar-1992 |
Disney animator, created Goofy |
Peter Bagge |
Cartoonist |
11-Dec-1957 |
|
Creator of comics Hate and Neat Stuff |
Ralph Bakshi |
Cartoonist |
29-Oct-1938 |
|
Fritz the Cat and Cool World |
Joseph Barbera |
Cartoonist |
24-Mar-1911 |
18-Dec-2006 |
Hanna-Barbera cartoons |
Lynda Barry |
Cartoonist |
2-Jan-1956 |
|
Ernie Pook's Comeek |
Alison Bechdel |
Cartoonist |
10-Sep-1960 |
|
Dykes to Watch Out For |
Max Beerbohm |
Critic |
24-Aug-1872 |
20-May-1956 |
Caricaturist, Seven Men |
Dave Berg |
Cartoonist |
12-Jun-1920 |
17-May-2002 |
The Lighter Side of... |
Clifford K. Berryman |
Cartoonist |
2-Apr-1869 |
11-Dec-1949 |
Political cartoonist |
Peter Blegvad |
Musician |
14-Aug-1951 |
|
Slapp Happy, Leviathan |
Don Bluth |
Cartoonist |
13-Sep-1937 |
|
Ex-Disney, created Fievel, Dragon's Lair |
Loren Bouchard |
Cartoonist |
c. 1970 |
|
Lucy, Daughter of the Devil |
Berke Breathed |
Cartoonist |
21-Jun-1957 |
|
Cartoonist of Bloom County |
Ashleigh Brilliant |
Cartoonist |
9-Dec-1933 |
|
Creator of Pot-Shots |
Chester Brown |
Cartoonist |
16-May-1960 |
|
Yummy Fur |
Sam Brown |
Cartoonist |
? |
|
Exploding Dog |
Ivan Brunetti |
Cartoonist |
3-Oct-1967 |
|
Schizo |
Gelett Burgess |
Cartoonist |
30-Jan-1866 |
17-Sep-1951 |
Has never seen a purple cow |
Eddie Campbell |
Cartoonist |
10-Aug-1955 |
|
Deadface, From Hell |
Milton Caniff |
Cartoonist |
28-Feb-1907 |
3-Apr-1988 |
Terry and the Pirates |
Max Cannon |
Cartoonist |
? |
|
Red Meat |
Al Capp |
Cartoonist |
28-Sep-1909 |
5-Nov-1979 |
Creator of L'il Abner |
Jack Chick |
Cartoonist |
13-Apr-1924 |
|
Anti-Catholic comics publisher |
Art Clokey |
Cartoonist |
12-Oct-1921 |
8-Jan-2010 |
Creator of Gumby |
Daniel Clowes |
Cartoonist |
14-Apr-1961 |
|
Eightball, Ghost World, David Boring |
Paul Conrad |
Cartoonist |
27-Jun-1924 |
4-Sep-2010 |
Political cartoonist |
Robert Crumb |
Cartoonist |
30-Aug-1943 |
|
Weirdo, Zap Comix |
Lloyd Dangle |
Cartoonist |
13-May-1961 |
|
Troubletown |
Dame Darcy |
Cartoonist |
11-Jun-1971 |
|
Meat Cake, Suckdog |
Jim Davis |
Cartoonist |
28-Jul-1945 |
|
Garfield |
Eldon Dedini |
Cartoonist |
29-Jun-1921 |
12-Jan-2006 |
Playboy, New Yorker cartoonist |
Walt Disney |
Business |
5-Dec-1901 |
15-Dec-1966 |
Founder of Disney empire |
Steve Ditko |
Cartoonist |
2-Nov-1927 |
|
Drew Spider-Man like nobody else has or can |
Julie Doucet |
Cartoonist |
31-Dec-1965 |
|
Dirty Plotte |
Mort Drucker |
Cartoonist |
29-Mar-1929 |
|
Mad Magazine illustrator |
Will Eisner |
Cartoonist |
6-Mar-1917 |
3-Jan-2005 |
Turned comic book authors into Sequential Artists |
Tristan A. Farnon |
Cartoonist |
20-Apr-1970 |
|
Leisure Town |
Jules Feiffer |
Cartoonist |
26-Jan-1929 |
|
Can't draw but writes like a master |
James Montgomery Flagg |
Painter |
18-Jun-1877 |
27-May-1960 |
I Want YOU for U.S. Army |
Phil Foglio |
Artist |
1-May-1956 |
|
Dragon magazine cartoonist |
Friz Freleng |
Cartoonist |
21-Aug-1906 |
26-May-1995 |
The Pink Panther |
Drew Friedman |
Cartoonist |
21-Sep-1958 |
|
Celebrity pointillist |
Neil Gaiman |
Cartoonist |
10-Nov-1960 |
|
DC Comics epic Sandman series |
Terry Gilliam |
Film Director |
22-Nov-1940 |
|
Monty Python alumnus, Brazil |
Rube Goldberg |
Cartoonist |
4-Jul-1883 |
7-Dec-1970 |
Designer of impossible contraptions |
Chester Gould |
Cartoonist |
20-Nov-1900 |
11-May-1985 |
Creator of Dick Tracy |
Bill Griffith |
Cartoonist |
20-Jan-1944 |
|
Personal friend of Zippy The Pinhead |
Matt Groening |
Cartoonist |
15-Feb-1954 |
|
Creator of The Simpsons |
Cathy Guisewite |
Cartoonist |
5-Sep-1950 |
|
Cathy |
Doc Hammer |
Cartoonist |
2-Feb-1966 |
|
Co-Creator of The Venture Bros. |
William Hanna |
Cartoonist |
14-Jul-1910 |
22-Mar-2001 |
Half of the Hanna-Barbera cartoon sweatshop |
Johnny Hart |
Cartoonist |
18-Feb-1931 |
7-Apr-2007 |
The Wizard of Id, B.C. |
Sam Henderson |
Cartoonist |
1969 |
|
The Magic Whistle |
Herblock |
Cartoonist |
13-Oct-1909 |
7-Oct-2001 |
Editorial Cartoonist, The Washington Post |
Hergé |
Cartoonist |
23-May-1907 |
3-Mar-1983 |
Tintin |
Gilbert Hernandez |
Cartoonist |
1957 |
|
Co-creator, Love & Rockets |
Jaime Hernandez |
Cartoonist |
1959 |
|
Co-creator, Love & Rockets |
Mayo D. Hersey |
Engineer |
30-Aug-1886 |
5-Sep-1978 |
Tribology |
Stephen Hillenburg |
Cartoonist |
21-Aug-1961 |
|
Creator of SpongeBob SquarePants |
Syd Hoff |
Author |
4-Sep-1912 |
12-May-2004 |
Danny and the Dinosaur |
Helen Hokinson |
Cartoonist |
29-Jun-1893 |
1-Nov-1949 |
Cartoonist for The New Yorker |
Kin Hubbard |
Cartoonist |
1-Sep-1868 |
26-Dec-1930 |
Abe Martin of Brown County |
Ub Iwerks |
Cartoonist |
24-Mar-1901 |
7-Jul-1971 |
First to animate Mickey Mouse |
Al Jaffee |
Cartoonist |
13-Mar-1921 |
|
Invented the Mad fold-in |
Lynn Johnston |
Cartoonist |
28-May-1947 |
|
For Better or For Worse |
Chuck Jones |
Cartoonist |
21-Sep-1912 |
22-Feb-2002 |
Directed Bugs Bunny cartoons |
Mike Judge |
Cartoonist |
17-Oct-1962 |
|
Beavis and Butthead |
Jack Kamen |
Cartoonist |
29-May-1920 |
5-Aug-2008 |
EC Comics artist |
Bob Kane |
Cartoonist |
24-Oct-1915 |
3-Nov-1998 |
Creator of the original Batman comic |
Kaz |
Cartoonist |
1959 |
|
Creator of Underworld |
Bil Keane |
Cartoonist |
5-Oct-1922 |
8-Nov-2011 |
Family Circus |
Walt Kelly |
Cartoonist |
25-Aug-1913 |
18-Oct-1973 |
Creator of Pogo |
Hank Ketcham |
Cartoonist |
14-Mar-1920 |
1-Jun-2001 |
Dennis the Menace |
Frank King |
Cartoonist |
9-Apr-1883 |
24-Jun-1969 |
Gasoline Alley |
Jack Kirby |
Cartoonist |
28-Aug-1917 |
6-Feb-1994 |
Captain America |
Kondom |
Cartoonist |
? |
|
Bondage Fairies |
John Kricfalusi |
Cartoonist |
9-Sep-1955 |
|
Ren And Stimpy |
Harvey Kurtzman |
Cartoonist |
3-Oct-1924 |
21-Feb-1993 |
Founding editor, Mad magazine |
Gary Larson |
Cartoonist |
14-Aug-1950 |
|
Creator of The Far Side |
Stan Lee |
Cartoonist |
28-Dec-1922 |
|
Created Spider-Man and The Hulk |
David Levine |
Cartoonist |
20-Dec-1926 |
29-Dec-2009 |
Caricaturist, New York Review of Books |
Rob Liefeld |
Cartoonist |
3-Oct-1967 |
|
The New Mutants, Agent America |
Ranan Lurie |
Cartoonist |
26-May-1932 |
|
Hugely popular political cartoonist |
Jeff MacNelly |
Cartoonist |
17-Sep-1948 |
8-Jun-2000 |
Editorial cartoonist, Shoe |
Milo Manara |
Cartoonist |
12-Sep-1945 |
|
Erotic comic book artist |
William Moulton Marston |
Inventor |
9-May-1893 |
2-May-1947 |
Invented polygraph, Wonder Woman |
Bill Mauldin |
Cartoonist |
29-Oct-1921 |
22-Jan-2003 |
WWII cartoonist, Willie and Joe |
Scott McCloud |
Cartoonist |
10-Jun-1960 |
|
Understanding Comics |
Craig McCracken |
Film/TV Producer |
c. 1971 |
|
Creator, The Powerpuff Girls |
Todd McFarlane |
Cartoonist |
16-Mar-1961 |
|
Spawn |
Aaron McGruder |
Cartoonist |
29-May-1974 |
|
Boondocks comic strip |
Norman Z. McLeod |
Film Director |
20-Sep-1898 |
27-Jan-1964 |
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty |
Bill Melendez |
Cartoonist |
15-Nov-1916 |
2-Sep-2008 |
A Charlie Brown Christmas |
Dale Messick |
Cartoonist |
11-Apr-1906 |
5-Apr-2005 |
Comic strip Brenda Starr |
Mark Millar |
Cartoonist |
24-Dec-1969 |
|
The Ultimates, Ultimate X-Men writer |
Frank Miller |
Author |
27-Jan-1957 |
|
The Dark Knight Returns |
Tony Millionaire |
Cartoonist |
1956 |
|
Creator of Maakies, Sock Monkey |
Takeuchi Naoko |
Cartoonist |
15-Mar-1967 |
|
Created Sailor Moon |
Thomas Nast |
Cartoonist |
27-Sep-1840 |
7-Dec-1902 |
American political caricaturist |
Pat Oliphant |
Cartoonist |
24-Jul-1935 |
|
Editorial cartoonist, won 1967 Pulitzer |
Chris Onstad |
Cartoonist |
14-Jun-1975 |
|
Achewood |
Richard F. Outcault |
Cartoonist |
14-Jan-1863 |
25-Sep-1928 |
Yellow Kid |
Trey Parker |
Cartoonist |
19-Oct-1969 |
|
South Park |
Mike Peters |
Cartoonist |
9-Oct-1943 |
|
Mother Goose and Grimm |
Richard Pini |
Cartoonist |
19-Jul-1950 |
|
Elfquest |
Wendy Pini |
Cartoonist |
4-Jun-1951 |
|
Elfquest |
Bill Plympton |
Film Director |
30-Apr-1946 |
|
I Married a Strange Person! |
Jackson Publick |
Cartoonist |
14-Sep-1971 |
|
Co-Creator of The Venture Bros. |
Ted Rall |
Cartoonist |
26-Aug-1963 |
|
Godless heathen cartoonist |
David Rees |
Cartoonist |
1972 |
|
Get Your War On |
Robert L. Ripley |
Curator |
25-Dec-1890 |
27-May-1949 |
Believe It or Not! |
John Romita |
Cartoonist |
24-Jan-1930 |
|
Comic book artist |
Joe Sacco |
Cartoonist |
2-Oct-1960 |
|
Palestine |
Charles Schulz |
Cartoonist |
26-Nov-1922 |
12-Feb-2000 |
Cartoonist created Peanuts |
Julius Schwartz |
Cartoonist |
19-Jun-1915 |
8-Feb-2004 |
Silver Age comics pioneer |
Ronald Searle |
Cartoonist |
3-Mar-1920 |
30-Dec-2011 |
St. Trinian's |
J. Otto Seibold |
Cartoonist |
1960 |
|
Mr. Lunch Takes A Plane Ride |
Seth |
Cartoonist |
16-Sep-1962 |
|
Palooka-Ville |
Joe Shuster |
Cartoonist |
10-Jul-1914 |
30-Jul-1992 |
Co-Creator of Superman |
Bill Sienkiewicz |
Cartoonist |
3-May-1958 |
|
Extraordinary comic book artist |
Dave Sim |
Cartoonist |
17-May-1956 |
|
Cerebus |
Nick Simmons |
Relative |
22-Jan-1989 |
|
Son of Gene Simmons |
Art Spiegelman |
Cartoonist |
15-Feb-1948 |
|
Maus |
William Steig |
Cartoonist |
14-Nov-1907 |
3-Oct-2003 |
Shrek, The New Yorker |
Dave Stevens |
Cartoonist |
29-Jul-1955 |
10-Mar-2008 |
The Rocketeer |
Matt Stone |
Cartoonist |
26-May-1971 |
|
South Park |
Ann Telnaes |
Cartoonist |
1960 |
|
Political cartoonist |
Bob Thaves |
Cartoonist |
4-Oct-1924 |
4-Aug-2006 |
Frank & Ernest |
James Thurber |
Author |
8-Dec-1894 |
2-Nov-1961 |
Short story writer and cartoonist |
Rodolphe Töpffer |
Cartoonist |
31-Jan-1799 |
8-Jun-1848 |
The Adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck |
Alex Toth |
Cartoonist |
25-Jun-1928 |
27-May-2006 |
Creator of Space Ghost |
Garry Trudeau |
Cartoonist |
21-Jul-1948 |
|
Doonesbury |
Jim Unger |
Cartoonist |
21-Jan-1937 |
29-May-2012 |
Herman |
Jhonen Vasquez |
Cartoonist |
1-Sep-1974 |
|
Invader Zim, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac |
Louis Wain |
Painter |
5-Aug-1860 |
4-Jul-1939 |
The Man Who Drew Cats |
Mort Walker |
Cartoonist |
3-Sep-1923 |
|
Beetle Bailey |
Chris Ware |
Cartoonist |
28-Dec-1967 |
|
The ACME Novelty Library |
Bill Watterson |
Cartoonist |
5-Jul-1958 |
|
Reclusive creator of Calvin and Hobbes |
Marv Wolfman |
Cartoonist |
13-May-1946 |
|
Former Editor-In-Chief of Marvel Comics |
Jim Woodring |
Cartoonist |
11-Oct-1952 |
|
Frank |
Chic Young |
Cartoonist |
9-Jan-1901 |
14-Mar-1973 |
Creator of Blondie |