- 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.
- 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.
- Garry Trudeau
Garretson Beekman Trudeau (born July 21, 1948, in New York City) is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip.
- Frank King
Frank King (April 9, 1883 - June 24, 1969) was an American cartoonist most famous for the comic strip "Gasoline Alley".
- Stephan Pastis
Stephan Thomas Pastis (born January 16, 1968) is the creator of the comic strip "Pearls Before Swine".
- Milton Caniff
Milton Arthur Paul Caniff (February 28, 1907-May 3, 1988) was an American cartoonist famous for the "Terry and the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon" comic strips.
- Mike Peters
Mike Peters (born October 9, 1943, St. Louis, Missouri) is an American cartoonist. He draws the popular comic strip Mother Goose and Grimm, as well as syndicated editorial cartoons that appear in papers all over the United States. He won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. His home paper is the "Dayton Daily News" in Dayton, Ohio.
- 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, …
- 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.
- 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.
- Mort Walker
Mort Walker is the dean and -- in some ways -- the curator of American cartoonists. Best known for his long-running strips "Beetle Bailey" and "Hi & Lois," Walker, 84, is also a bedrock member of the National Cartoonists Society, and he's the founder and energy behind the National Cartoon Museum. This is the third time I've had the pleasure of Mort's company over the last 20 years. I enjoy interviewing him because he says what's on his mind, and what's on his mind is never dull.
- 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.
- Dik Browne
Dik Browne was born Richard Arthur Allan Browne in New York City. He was a popular cartoonist, best known for writing and drawing "Hägar the Horrible" and for drawing "Hi and Lois". In the 1940s he worked as an illustrator for Newsweek as well as for an advertising company, where he created the trademark logo for Chiquita. In 1954 Browne and cartoonist Mort Walker co-created the comic strip "Hi and Lois", …
- Chester Brown
Chester Brown (born May 16, 1960) is a Canadian independent cartoonist. His underground work was initially self-published, then released by the independent publishing company Vortex. Most of his output is now published by Drawn and Quarterly.
- 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, …
- Will Elder
William Elder (aka Bill Elder) (born September 22, 1921 in the Bronx, New York) is an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art yet is best known for a zany cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's "Mad" comic book in 1952. He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2003.
- Tom Hodges
Thomas D. Hodges (b. April 5, 1972 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American artist. He is best known as the artist for Star Wars.com's Expanded Universe webstrips Reversal of Fortune, Topps Star Wars Heritage and Revenge of the Sith sketch Cards and DK published You Can Draw Star Wars Tom Hodges --Vmperella 14:28, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
- 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, …
- 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".
- Jim Davis
James Robert "Jim" Davis (born July 28, 1945), is an American cartoonist who created the popular comic strip "Garfield".
- Guy Gilchrist
Guy Gilchrist (January 30, 1957-) is a cartoonist whose work includes a run on the comic strip Nancy, Your Angels Speak, Night Lights & Pillow Fights, Screams, The Poetry Guy, The Muppets and The Rock Channel. He won the National Cartoonist Society Magazine and Book Illustration Award for 1997 and 1998, and was nominated for their Book Illustration Award for 1999 and 2001.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- George Herriman
George Joseph Herriman (August 22, 1880 - April 25, 1944) was an American cartoonist, best known for his comic strip "Krazy Kat".
- 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.
- Chris Ware
Franklin Christenson Ware (born December 28, 1967) is an American comic book artist and cartoonist, best-known for a series of comics called the "Acme Novelty Library", and a graphic novel, "Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth." Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he resides in Oak Park, Illinois as of 2006. Ware's art is eclectic in its influences, and largely reflects his love of early-20th century American aesthetics in both cartooning and graphic design, …
- Roy Crane
Royston Campbell Crane (November 22, 1901 - July 7, 1977), who signed his work Roy Crane, was an American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy, and Buz Sawyer. He created one of the earliest adventure comic strips, and influenced many of the subsequent cartoonists in that genre. Crane was born in Abilene, Texas and grew up in nearby Sweetwater.
- 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.
- 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, …
- Dave Coverly
Dave Coverly (born 1964) is the creator of the one panel comic Speed Bump. He grew up in Plainwell, Michigan and graduated from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan with a degree in philosophy. At EMU, he worked for the student newspaper, the Eastern Echo. He went on to get a master's degree in English from Indiana University.
- Jack Tippit
Jack Tippit is an American cartoonist whose work includes the comic strip "Amy", which he produced from 1964 through 1991. He received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for the strip for 1970. He also received their Gag Cartoon Award for 1963 and 1966.
- Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born November 18, 1953 in Northampton) is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novels "Watchmen", "V for Vendetta" and "From Hell". He has also written a novel, "Voice of the Fire", and performs "workings" (one-off performance art/spoken word pieces) with the Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels, some of which have been released on CD. As a comics writer, …
- Edgar Bergen
Edgar John Bergen was an American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist.
- 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.
- Matthew Abram Groening
Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Matt Groening did not take a particular interest in school, which is what originaly turned him towards drawing. In the mid-1980' s, Matt Groening moved to Los... ... Matt Groening created The Simpsons. Matt Groening created Futurama. The Simpsons is one of the greatest shows ever. Furturama is one of the greatest shows ever. Because of this Simpsons fact Matt Groening is one of the all-time greats. Because of...
- 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.
- Cathy Guisewite
Cathy Lee Guisewite (born September 5, 1950) is the cartoonist who created the comic strip Cathy in 1976. Her main cartoon character (Cathy) is a career woman with characteristics and issues that both make fun of and sometimes allegedly strengthen negative stereotypes about women. Cathy Guisewite was born in Dayton, Ohio and grew up in Midland, Michigan. She attended the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor where she was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority.