See also: list of comic strips Notable CartoonistsNotable 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
- Andr? Franquin, Spirou, Gaston Lagaffe
- 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 & Company
- Ren? Goscinny, Asterix
- Matt Groening, Life in Hell, The Simpsons, Futurama
- Martin Handford, Where's Wally?
- Herg?, Tintin
- George Herriman, Krazy Kat
- Bill Holbrook, "On The FasTrack", "Save Havens" and "Kevin & Kell"
- Edgar P. Jacobs, "Blake and Mortimer"
- Mike Judge, "Beavis and Butthead", "King Of The Hill"
- B. Kliban
- Gary Larson, Far Side.
- Rick Law, Beyond the Veil
- John Leech, 19th century 'Punch' cartoonist.
- Michael Leunig, Australian
- R K Laxman, Cartoonist for The Times of India, India.
- Loriot
- Scott McCloud, Zot, Understanding Comics
- Seth MacFarlane, Family Guy", American Dad
- Shigeru Mizuki, Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro, - Master of horror of Japanese manga
- Morris, Lucky Luke
- Paul Palnik, The God of Cartoons American Jewish cartoon prophet.
- Virgil Partch, known as "VIP," he was a leading US gag cartoonist of the '50s and 60s
- Peyo, the Smurfs, Benoit Brisefer, Johan et Pirlouit
- Hugo Pratt, Corto Maltese
- Quino (Joaqu?n Salvador Lavado), Mafalda - Often regarded as the foremost Latin-American cartoonist, and a fierce social satirist.
- 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
- Semp?
- Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive
- 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 - Known as the "god" of Japanese manga, who practically defined modern Japanese cartooning
- Joan Vizcarra Carreras, from Spain (http://www.vizcarra.info) and (http://www.rock-caricatures.com)
- Ben Wicks, well known Canadian cartoonist and illustrator. Strips include The Outsider, Wicks
Animated CartoonistsCartoonists 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
- Stan Cross, The Potts and Wally and the Major
- Jim Davis, Garfield
- Chester Gould
- Bill Griffith, Zippy
- Tove and Lars Jansson, The Moomins
- Lynn Johnston, For Better or for Worse
- Eric Jolliffe, Andy
- Hank Ketcham, Dennis the Menace
- Walt Kelly, Pogo
- Kemsley, Ginger Meggs
- 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
- Stan Pitt, Larry Flynn, Detective
- 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
- Monty Wedd, The Scorpion, Bert and Ned, Tod Trail, Kirk Raven, Ned Kelly, Sword and Sabre', Captain Justice, Ben Hall and ]
- Jeff Wilson, The Avridge Farm
- J.D. Frazer, User Friendly
Cartoonists of single panel cartoons (gag cartoons)Political cartoonists- Naji al-Ali, Palestinian cartoonist assassinated in 1987
- Dean Alston, Australian
- Steve Bell, contemporary British political cartoonist
- Ruben Bolling, Tom the Dancing Bug Contemporary American polticial
- Bordalo Pinheiro, Rafael - (1846-1905), Portuguese, creator of Z? Povinho
- Paul Conrad, political cartoons
- Cook, Patrick (1949- ) - Australian
- Stan Cross - Australian
- Jay Norwood Darling, editorial cartoonist (two time Pulitzer Prize winner), also designed the first Federal Duck Stamp
- David Ditchburn - Australian
- Andy Donato, Canadian political cartoonist, works for the 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
- Bill Leak - Australian
- Michael Leunig - Australian
- 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
- Peter Nicholson (1946- ) - Australian political cartoonist
- Pat Oliphant, Pulitzer prize winner, longtime contemporary American cartoonist originally from Australia
- Ward O'Neill, Australian
- Paul Palnik American, Jewish, Kabbalistic Spiritual Cartoons.
- Bruce Petty, Australian
- Matt Pritchett, (Matt) single panel political cartoons in the British Daily Telegraph
- Pryor, Geoff (1944- ) - Australian
- Ted Rall, contemporary American political cartoonist.
- Dan Russell
- Jim Russell
- Spooner, John (1946- ) - Australian
- 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.
- William Ellis Green - Australian
- Cathy Wilcox - Australian political cartoonist and illustrator
- J. Winburn - American satirical cartoonist of alternative humor at rancidsquid.com
- Paco Calder?n Mexican
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
- Jeff Smith, creator of Bone
- Frank Miller, creator of Sin City
- Paul Palnik, creator of The God of Cartoons
- Alan Davis, creator of ClanDestine
- Kyle Baker, creator of Why I Hate Saturn
- Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy
- Elito V. Circa, Pantabangan Folk Artist
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