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
Jack Davis
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
Ren 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
Gary Larson, Far Side.
Rick Law, Beyond the Veil
R K Laxman, Cartoonist for The Times of India, India.
John Leech, 19th century 'Punch' cartoonist.
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
Osamu Tezuka, Astroboy, Phoenix] - God of Japanese manga, heavily influenced Japanese cartooning
Ben Wicks, well known Canadian cartoonist and illustrator. Strips include The Outsider, Wicks

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
Raymond Macherot, Colonel Clifton
Winsor McCay, Little Nemo
Patrick McDonnell, Mutts
Dale Messick, Brenda Starr
Steve Nease, Pud
Charles Peattie and Russell Taylor, Alex
Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts
Jeff Shesol, Thatch (comic strip)
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
J.D. Frazer, User Friendly

Cartoonists of single panel cartoons (gag cartoons)

Charles Addams, cartoonist for The New Yorker whose macabre fantasies became the Addams Family of film and television
Ivan Brunetti, single panel cartoons in Schizo and Haw from Fantagraphics
Patrick Chappatte (Chappatte), cartoonist for Le Temps and the International Herald Tribune
Carl Giles (Giles), single panel cartoons in the British Daily Express
Nick D. Kim (Nick), mainly science related cartoons, published in many science-related magazins.
Gary Larson, The Far Side
James Thurber, one-panel cartoons for The New Yorker magazine, also an essayist and playwright
Zero, Brazilian cartoonist

Political cartoonists

Steve Bell, contemporary British political cartoonist
Ruben Bolling, Tom the Dancing Bug Contemporary American polticial
Paul Conrad, political cartoons
Cook, Patrick (1949- ) - Australian political cartoonist
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
Horner, Arthur (b. 1916) - Australian 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
McCrae, Stewart (1919- ) - Australian political cartoonist
Moir, Alan Charles (1945- ) - Australian political cartoonist
Molnar, George (1910-1998) - Australian political cartoonist
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
Nicholson, Peter (1946- ) - Australian political cartoonist
Pat Oliphant, Pulitzer prize winner, longtime contemporary American cartoonist originally from Australia.
Matt Pritchett, (Matt) single panel political cartoons in the British Daily Telegraph
Pryor, Geoff (1944- ) - Australian political cartoonist
Ted Rall, contemporary American political cartoonist.
Spooner, John (1946- ) - Australian political cartoonist
Tom Tomorrow, This Modern World Current contemporary American political 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.
WEG. - Australian political cartoonist

Cartoonist of comic books

Sergio Aragones, MAD, also the creator of GROO.
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
M. Rasheed, creator of Monsters 101 and How to Create a Comic Book and Get Rich Doing it
Jeff Smith, creator of Bone
Frank Miller, creator of Sin City
Alan Davis, creator of ClanDestine
Kyle Baker, creator of Why I Hate Saturn
Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy