- Scott Adams
Scott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the "Dilbert" comic strip and the author of several business commentaries, social satires, and experimental philosophy books. - Frank Miller
Frank Miller (February 10, 1898 - March 12, 1949) was an American cartoonist. Miller was most famous for his comic strip "Barney Baxter in the Air," created in 1936 for King Features Syndicate, and renamed simply "Barney Baxter" in 1943. - Charles M. Schulz
Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 - February 12, 2000) was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known worldwide for his "Peanuts" comic strip. - Jim Borgman
James Mark Borgman (born February 24, 1952), an American cartoonist. He is known for his political cartoons and his nationally syndicated comic strip Zits. - Bill Watterson
William B. "Bill" Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist, and the author of the comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes" and select "Target: The Political Cartoon Quarterly Magazine" drawings. - Lynn Johnston
Lynn Johnston (born May 28, 1947) is a Canadian cartoonist, well known for her comic strip "For Better or For Worse", and was the first female cartoonist to win the Reuben Award. - Al Capp
Al Capp (September 28, 1909 - November 5, 1979) was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, "Li'l Abner". He also wrote the comic strips "Abbie and Slats" and "Long Sam". He won the 1947 National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for the comic strip "Li'l Abner", and their 1979 Elzie Segar Award posthumously. - Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder (born May 29, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American cartoonist best known for writing and drawing "The Boondocks", a Universal Press Syndicate comic strip about two young African-American brothers from inner-city Chicago now living with their grandfather in a sedate suburb. Through the leftist Huey (named after Huey P. Newton) and his younger brother Riley, a gangsta-wannabe, … - Walt Kelly
Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr (August 25, 1913 - October 18, 1973), known as Walt Kelly, was a cartoonist notable for his comic strip "Pogo" featuring characters that inhabited a portion of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While he was still a child, his family moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut where his father worked in a munitions plant. After graduating from Warren Harding High School in 1930, … - Tom Tomorrow
Dan Perkins, better known by the pen name “Tom Tomorrow”, is an editorial cartoonist. His weekly cartoon, "This Modern World", a comic strip that comments on current events from a strong liberal populist perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the USA and the online magazines Salon.com and Working for Change. The strip debuted in 1990 in "SF Weekly". Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, … - Patrick McDonnell
Patrick McDonnell (born March 17, 1956) is the creator of the daily comic strip "Mutts". He has also illustrated Russell Baker's Sunday Observer column in the New York Times magazine and created the monthly comic strip "Bad Baby" for Parents magazine. He has contributed to Sports Illustrated, Reader's Digest, Forbes, Time and many others, and has co-authored the book "Krazy Kat: the Comic Art of George Herriman." A book of his life and work, … - Winsor McCay
Winsor McCay (September 26 1867(?) – July 26 1934) was a prolific artist and pioneer in the art of comic strips and animation. His comic strip work has influenced generations of artists, including creators such as Moebius, Chris Ware, William Joyce, and Maurice Sendak. His early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries, and set the model to be followed by Walt Disney and others. - Chester Gould
Chester Gould (November 20,1900 - May 11, 1985) was a U.S. cartoonist and the creator of the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977. Gould was known for his use of colorful, often monstrous, villains. - Johnny Hart
Johnny Hart (February 18 1931 - April 7 2007) was an American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strip "B.C." and co-creator of the strip "The Wizard of Id". Hart was recognized with several awards, including five from the National Cartoonists Society, and the Swedish Adamson Award. In his later years, he sparked controversy by incorporating overtly Christian themes and messages into the strips. - George Herriman
George Joseph Herriman (August 22, 1880 - April 25, 1944) was an American cartoonist, best known for his comic strip "Krazy Kat". - Berkeley Breathed
Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (born June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director, and screenwriter, best known for "Bloom County", a 1980s cartoon-comic strip which dealt with socio-political issues as seen through the eyes of highly exaggerated characters (e.g. Bill the Cat and Opus the Penguin) and humorous analogies. - Alex Raymond
Alexander Gillespie Raymond was an American comic strip artist, best known for creating the comic "Flash Gordon" in 1934. The serial hit the silver screen three years later with Buster Crabbe and Jean Rogers as the leading players. Other strips he drew include "Secret Agent X-9", "Rip Kirby", "Jungle Jim", "Tim Tyler's Luck", and "Tillie the Toiler". - Gary Larson
Gary Larson (b. August 14 1950) is the creator of "The Far Side", a single-panel comic strip which appeared in many newspapers for fourteen years until Larson's retirement January 1, 1995. The strip remains popular to this day. - Ted Rall
Ted Rall , America's hardest-hitting editorial satirist, is President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists . He is also an award-winning political commentator who also works as a syndicated columnist, author, freelance illustrator and (when he gets the chance) radio commentator. This site includes his blog , as well as regular updates of his three cartoons per week , weekly opinion columns and news about his latest projects. - Raymond Pettibon
Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn on June 16, 1957) is an American artist and sometime musician and lyricist. Known for his comic-like drawings with disturbing, ironic or ambiguous captions, Pettibon's subject matter is sometimes violent and anti-authoritarian. From the late 1970s through the mid-1980s, he was closely assocated with the punk rock band Black Flag and the record label SST Records, both founded by his older brother Greg Ginn. - Brad Anderson
Brad Anderson (born May 24, 1924 in Jamestown, New York) is an American cartoonist. He graduated from Brocton Central School in Brocton, NY in 1943. He is most famous for creating the comic strip "Marmaduke" in 1955, which he continues to draw to this day. One of his favorite inclusions in his comics was the old Cave's Meat Market in Brocton, NY. There were several cartoons dedicated to Cave's and to Marmaduke running away from the store with items he had retrieved. - Lynda Barry
Lynda Barry (born January 2, 1956) is an American cartoonist and author. One of the most successful non-mainstream American cartoonists, Barry is perhaps best known for her weekly comic strip "Ernie Pook's Comeek". Barry's cartoons often view family life from the perspective of adolescent girls from the wrong side of the tracks - particularly sensitive, freckled Arna and the cousins with whom she lives; her best friend, pig-tailed Marlys, who is confident and mean, … - Bill Holbrook
Bill Holbrook is a prolific American comic strip & webcomic writer and artist. Holbrook draws three strips: * "On the Fastrack "(see Info about "On the Fastrack"). * "Safe Havens", syndicated nationally in the USA (see Info about "Safe Havens"). * "Kevin and Kell", originally an online-only strip but now also published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. - Alison Bechdel
Alison Bechdel , author of the critically acclaimed Fun Home (called "one of the very best graphic novels ever" in Booklist ) and of the syndicated comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For (DTWOF), has become a cultural institution for lesbians and discerning non-lesbians all over the planet. At the podium, Bechdel redefines race and gender roles while taking aim at some of the most controversial topics of the day. - Frank Cho
Frank Cho, born Duk Hyun Cho, is an American comic strip and comic book creator, writer and illustrator, best known for his series "Liberty Meadows". - Frank McLaughlin
Frank McLaughlin is an American comic book artist who co-created the character Judomaster; a comic strip illustrator who served as a successor artist on such popular strips as "Nancy" and "Brenda Starr"; and an author of books about cartooning and comic art. - Wally Wood
Wallace Allan Wood was an American comic book writer, artist and independent publisher, best known for his work in EC Comics and "Mad". Although much of his early professional artwork is signed Wallace Wood, he became known as Wally Wood, a name he claimed to dislike. Within the comics community, he was also known as Woody, a name he sometimes used as a signature. - Curt Swan
Curt Swan (born February 17, 1920 in Minneapolis, Minnesota; died June 16, 1996) was an American comic book artist, best known for his work on the Superman comics. Drafted into the army in 1940, he spent World War II working on the G.I. magazine, "Stars and Stripes". After returning to civilian life in 1945 he began working for DC Comics. After a stint on "Boy Commandos" he began to just pencil pages, leaving the inking to others. - Bill Amend
Bill Amend was born in 1962 and grew up in Burlingame, California. He has Bachelor's degree in physics from Amherst College. Amend is married, and has two children, and currently lives in Kansas City. Bill created two strips, "Bango's Ridge" and "FoxTrot" after college. After three years of trying, FoxTrot was picked up in 1988 by Universal Press Syndicate, and has been running ever since. Amend is one of the few cartoonists that has broken the 1000 newspaper barrier. - Darby Conley
Darby Conley is an American cartoonist best known for the popular comic strip "Get Fuzzy". Conley was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1970, and grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee. While in high school in 1986, he won a student cartooning competition. During his Senior Year at Doyle High School (now South-Doyle High School) in Knoxville, Conley was voted 'Most Talented' by his graduating class. He attended Amherst College, where he studied Fine Arts, … - Jack Davis
Jack Davis (born December 2, 1924) is an American cartoonist and illustrator. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003. He also received the National Cartoonist Society Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in 1996. Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Davis drew for his high school paper and then spent three years in the Navy, where he contributed to the daily "Navy News." Attending the University of Georgia on the GI Bill, … - Tove Jansson
Tove Marika Jansson was a Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. She is the author of, among other works, the Moomin books. - Tony Millionaire
Tony Millionaire (born Scott Richardson, 1956) is an American cartoonist, illustrator and author known for his syndicated comic strip "Maakies" and the "Sock Monkey" series of comics and picture books. - Tom Batiuk
Tom Batiuk (born 1947 in Akron, Ohio) is an American comic strip creator. His best-known comic strip is "Funky Winkerbean". Batiuk attended Kent State University, from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in painting. He went on to teach art in junior high school. He put his experiences to use in his gag-a-day "Funky Winkerbean", which first appeared in print in 1972. With the success of the strip, he abandoned his teaching career, … - Bill Griffith
Bill Griffith (born William Henry Jackson Griffith in Brooklyn, NY 1944) is a popular cartoonist in the United States. He is best known for his comic strip "Zippy the Pinhead". Griffith grew up in Levittown, Long Island, where one of his neighbors was science fiction illustrator Ed Emshwiller, whom he credits with pointing him towards the world of art.. Griffith began his comics career in New York City in 1969. - Bud Fisher
Harry Conway "Bud" Fisher (April 3, 1885 - September 7, 1954) was an American cartoonist who created the first successful daily comic strip in the United States. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Fisher studied at the University of Chicago then went to work in San Francisco as a journalist and sketch artist in the sports department of the San Francisco Chronicle. In late-1907, he introduced a comic strip character he called "Mr. - Darrin Bell
Darrin Bell is an American cartoonist who writes and illustrates the syndicated comic strip Candorville (collected in "Another Stereotype Bites the Dust"), in addition to illustrating the comic strip Rudy Park. Bell, who is Black and Jewish, was born in Los Angeles, California. He started drawing when he was 3. He's been published in the Daily Californian since 1993, during his freshman year in college, and in major papers across the country. - William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst I (April 29, 1863 - August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate. - Hal Foster
Harold ("Hal") Rudolf Foster (August 18, 1892 in Halifax, Nova Scotia - July 25, 1982) was a Canadian-American cartoonist most famous as the creator of the comic strip "Prince Valiant". He worked as a staff artist for the Hudson Bay Company and moved to Chicago in 1919, where he studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. He subsequently worked as an illustrator before getting involved with "Tarzan", an adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs's novels. - Jimmy Johnson
Jimmy Johnson is an American comic strip cartoonist who writes "Arlo and Janis". He is an alumnus of Auburn University. As of 2006, despite the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, he still owns a home in Pass Christian, Mississippi. On April 3, 2006, he suffered a mild heart attack.
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