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| x Frank Cummings |
Frank Cummings, is a Birmingham, Alabama cartoonist who currently assists John Marshall on the Blondie comic strip.
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| x Al Scaduto |
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Al Scaduto (July 12, 1928 – December 8, 2007) was a cartoonist noted for his work on the classic strips, They'll Do It Every Time and Little Iodine, created by Jimmy Hatlo.
Born in Bronx, New York, Scaduto attended from the School of Industrial Art,...
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| x James Kochalka |
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James Kochalka (born May 26, 1967, in Springfield, Vermont) is an American comic book artist and writer, and rock musician. His comics are noted for their blending of the real and the surreal. Largely autobiographical, Kochalka's cartoon expression...
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| x Fred Negro |
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Fred Negro (his real name) is an Australian satirist, musician, songwriter, and cartoonist born in Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, in 1959. He has fronted numerous rock or country bands, with local success, including:
Punk-influenced I...
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| x Ben Katchor | Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer |
Ben Katchor (born 1951 in Brooklyn, NY) is an American cartoonist. His comic strip Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer paints an evocative picture of a slightly surreal, historical New York City with a decidedly Jewish sensibility. Julius Knipl...
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| x Larry Alcala |
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Lauro Zarate Alcala (August 18, 1926 – 2002), also known as Larry Alcala, was a well-known editorial cartoonist and illustrator in the Philippines.
He was born on August 18, 1926 to Ernesto Alcala and Elpidia Zarate in Daraga, Albay. Through a...
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| x Aaron McGruder |
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The Boondocks | Illustrator and Writer |
Aaron McGruder (born May 29, 1974) 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...
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| x Winsor McCay |
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Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend |
Winsor McCay (September 26, 1867(?) – July 26, 1934) was an American cartoonist and animator.
A prolific artist, McCay's pioneering early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries, and set a standard followed by Walt Disney and...
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| x Dick Guindon |
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Richard Gordon Guindon (born December 2, 1935) is an American cartoonist best known for his gag panel, Guindon. Dick Guindon's cartoons have appeared in the Minneapolis Tribune, The Realist and the Detroit Free Press. During the late 1950s, Guindon...
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| x Petri Hiltunen |
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Petri Hiltunen (born 1967) is a Finnish cartoonist and illustrator. Hiltunen has produced work in a variety of genres, but is most notable for his fantasy and horror work. He has won the prestigious Puupäähattu award in 2002, which is regarded as...
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| x T Campbell |
Terrell Campbell (commonly styled T Campbell) is the writer of many webcomics, including Fans, Rip & Teri , Search Engine Funnies and Penny & Aggie . He is also the editor of Graphic Smash and Clickwheel. His articles for Comixpedia led to a book,...
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| x Milton Caniff |
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Milton Arthur Paul Caniff (February 28, 1907 – April 3, 1988) was an American cartoonist famous for the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips.
Caniff was born in Hillsboro, Ohio. He was an Eagle Scout and a recipient of the...
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| x Al Smith |
Al Smith (March 2, 1902 – November 24, 1986) was an American cartoonist whose work included a run on the comic strip Mutt and Jeff. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Smith was the art editor for the syndicate department of the New York World from 1920 to...
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| x Jim Unger |
Jim Unger (born 21 January 1937 in London, England) began his career as a cartoonist at the Mississauga Times newspaper in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. In 1974, Unger moved to Ottawa, Ontario, where his now-famous Herman comic strip became popular....
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| x Carol Lay |
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Carol Lay (born 1952) is the author of a weekly comic strip, Way Lay, which first appeared in 1992 and which runs in the LA Weekly and Salon. It is also printed in daily and weekly newspapers as far afield as Hong Kong and Norway. Lay has been...
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| x Jan Eliot | Stone Soup |
Jan Eliot (born 1950 in San Jose, California) is an American cartoonist. She writes and illustrates the comic strip "Stone Soup." She created a previous strip known as "Patience and Sarah," which enjoyed a run of five years in 10 publications.
Her...
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| x Dick Calkins |
Dick Calkins (1895 – May 12, 1962), who often signed his work Lt. Dick Calkins, is a comic strip artist who is best known for being the first artist to draw the Buck Rogers comic strip.
Calkins served as the artist for this series from January, 1929...
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| x Chris Onstad | Achewood | Illustrator and Writer | Oct 1, 2001 |
Christopher Onstad (born June 14, 1975) is a writer, cartoonist, and artist known best for Achewood, a regularly updated webcomic. He was born in California and grew up in a small town near Sonora, in the Sierra foothills. Onstad attended Stanford...
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| x Quino |
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Mafalda | Illustrator and Writer | 1964 |
Joaquín Salvador Lavado, better known by his pen name Quino, is an Argentine cartoonist born on July 17, 1932 in Guaymallén, Mendoza Province to Spanish parents. His comic strip Mafalda (which ran from 1964 to 1973) is very popular in Latin America...
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| x Denis Lebrun |
Denis Lebrun (b. April 30, 1958) is a comic strip artist best known for his collaboration with Dean Young on the Blondie comic strip.
Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Lebrun's entered the comic strip field in 1975 with Rolling with Roger in the...
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| x Rick Detorie |
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One Big Happy |
Rick Detorie is the creator of the popular comic strip One Big Happy. He is the author of 14 humor books, including the best-sellers No Good Men, No Good Lawyers, Totally Tacky Cartoons, Catholics and How to Survive an Italian Family. He currently...
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| x Dan Barry |
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Daniel Barry (July 11, 1923 – January 25, 1997) was an American cartoonist. Beginning in comic books during the 1940s with Leonard Starr, Stan Drake and his brother Sy Barry, he helped define and exemplify a particular kind of "New York Slick" style...
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| x Tak Toyoshima |
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Tak Toyoshima (born April 11, 1971, in New York, New York) is an Asian American art director with the Weekly Dig and the author of the comic strip Secret Asian Man.
According to an interview with AArisings, Toyoshima is a second-generation Japanese...
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| x Burne Hogarth |
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Burne Hogarth (December 25, 1911 – January 28, 1996) was an American cartoonist, illustrator, educator, author and theoretician, best known for his pioneering work on the Tarzan newspaper comic strip and his series of anatomy books.
Hogarth was born...
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| x Gene Carr |
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Gene Carr (7 January 1881 – 9 December 1959) was a United States cartoonist.
He was one of the most active early New York City artists in the young field of comic strips. He was doing newspaper cartoons by age 15 and two years later was working for...
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| x Carson Van Osten |
Carson Van Osten (born September 24, 1946) is an American comics creator and musician.
Van Osten studyed at the Philadelphia College of Art. In 1966, he played in the band Woody's Truck Stop, before forming the rock group Nazz with Todd Rundgren in...
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| x Scott Dikkers |
Scott Dikkers is a United States comedy writer and filmmaker. He was co-owner of The Onion from 1989–2001, and editor-in-chief from 1988–1999 and 2005–2008. He is the author or co-author of several best-selling humor books.
He is also the creator...
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| x Oscar Jacobsson |
Oscar Jacobsson (1889-1945) was a Swedish comic creator and cartoonist who started his career in 1918, when his first newspaper illustration was published.
In 1920, he created the comic strip Adamson for the publication Söndags-Nisse. Adamson...
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| x Chester Brown |
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Chester Brown (born May 16, 1960) is a Canadian alternative cartoonist. His underground work was initially self-published, then released by the independent publishing company Vortex Comics. Most of his output is now published by Drawn and Quarterly....
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| x Angus Allan |
Angus Peter Allan (22 July 1936 – 16 July 2007) was a British comic strip writer and magazine editor who worked on TV Century 21 in the 1960s and Look-in magazine during the 1970s. Most commonly known as Angus Allan and sometimes credited as Angus P...
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| x Vince Locke |
Vincent Locke is an American comic book artist known for his work on Deadworld and A History of Violence and for his ultraviolent album covers for death metal band Cannibal Corpse.
Locke began work in 1986 illustrating Deadworld, a zombie horror...
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| x Dudley Fisher |
Dudley Fisher (1890 – July 10, 1951) was a U.S. cartoonist. He was born in Columbus, Ohio. After spending time at The Ohio State University studying to be an architect, he dropped out and began working as a layout artist at The Columbus Dispatch...
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| x Berkeley Breathed |
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The Academia Waltz |
Guy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (born June 21, 1957) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director, and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip which dealt with socio...
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Philip Davis (March 4, 1906–16 December 1964), born in St. Louis, Missouri, is an American illustrator who signed his work Phil Davis. He is best known as the illustrator of Mandrake the Magician, written by Lee Falk.
Growing up with one sister and...
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| x Mel Lazarus |
Mell Lazarus (born May 3, 1927) is a cartoonist and creator of two comic strips, Miss Peach (1957-2002) and Momma (1970-present). He won the National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award for 1973 and 1979, and their Reuben Award for...
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| x Cathy Guisewite |
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Cathy |
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 faced with the issues and challenges of work, relationships, her mother and food, or as...
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| x Gahan Wilson |
Gahan Wilson (born February 18, 1930 in Evanston, Illinois) is an author, cartoonist, and illustrator in the United States.
Wilson's cartoons and illustrations are drawn in a playfully grotesque style, and have a dark humor that is often compared to...
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| x Doug Allen |
Doug Allen is an American underground cartoonist. He is best-known for the angry character of his self-syndicated weekly comic strip Steven, which ran first in Providence, Rhode Island's New Paper, and later in many other alternative weekly...
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| x Mort Walker | Beetle Bailey |
Addison Morton Walker (born September 3, 1923), popularly known as Mort Walker, is an American comic artist best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950, and Hi and Lois in 1954.
Born in El Dorado, Kansas, he grew up in...
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| x Rob Tornoe |
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Rob Tornoe is the political cartoonist for Politicker.com, a network of state-oriented political websites owned by The New York Observer. He is a member of the The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and provides cartoons to The Press of...
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| x Alex Toth |
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Alex Toth (June 25, 1928–May 27, 2006), pronounced with a long "o," was an acclaimed professional cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s. Toth's work began in the American comic book industry, but is best known for his animation designs...
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| x Dik Browne |
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Hägar the Horrible |
Dik Browne (August 11, 1917 – June 4, 1989) 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...
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| x Eric Orner |
Eric Orner (born and raised in Chicago) is an openly gay American cartoonist whose works revolve around LGBT issues. He is best known for his acclaimed creation, The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green, which was made into a film in 2005....
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| x 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...
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| x Reg Smythe |
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Reginald "Reg" Smythe (July 10, 1917, Hartlepool – June 13, 1998, Hartlepool) was a British cartoonist who created the Andy Capp comic strip.
Born Reginald Smyth (without the "e"), the son of Richard Oliver Smyth, a shipyard worker, and his wife,...
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| x Walter Ball |
Walter Ball (born 1911, date of death unknown) was cartoonist for the Canadian comic strip feature Rural Route, which became a familiar fixture in the Toronto Star Weekly between 1956 until the publication's demise in 1968. He was born in Cookstown,...
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| x Robb Armstrong |
Robb Armstrong is the creator of the comic strip Jump Start. He was born in Philadelphia and now lives near the city in Conshohocken with his wife and two children. He graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. He...
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| x Jimmy Johnson | Arlo and Janis |
Jimmy Johnson is an American comic strip cartoonist who writes and draws Arlo and Janis. He is an alumnus of Auburn University, class of 1974.
"My earliest cartoon work was copying Fred and Barney and Yogi Bear. I became quite proficient and was...
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| x Rick Kirkman | Baby Blues |
Rick Kirkman (born 1953) is a cartoonist whose work includes the comic strip Baby Blues. He received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Comic Strip Award for 1995 for his work on the strip.
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| x Ted Key |
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Ted Key, born Theodore Keyser (August 25, 1912 – May 3, 2008), was an American cartoonist and writer. He is best known as the creator of the cartoon series Hazel.
Ted Key was born in Fresno, California, the son of Latvian immigrant Simon Keyser, who...
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| x Michael Breckenridge |
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Michael Breckenridge is an actor, musician, journalist and artist.
Breckenridge graduated from the University of Washington, Seattle with a Bachelor's degree in Communications, specializing in Broadcast Journalism. He worked in Nashville, Tennessee,...
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| x Lynn Johnston | For Better or For Worse |
Lynn Johnston, CM, OM (born May 28, 1947) is a Canadian cartoonist, well known for her comic strip For Better or For Worse, and was the first woman and first Canadian to win the National Cartoonist Society's Reuben Award.
Born Lynn Ridgway in...
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| x Foxo Reardon |
Francis X. Reardon, the creator of the world's first pantomime comic strip, was born in Richmond, Virginia on January 5, 1905, the youngest of three children of William Reardon, a glassblower, and Rose Meyer Reardon. He attended Sacred Heart...
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| x Marge |
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Marjorie Henderson Buell (December 11, 1904–May 30, 1993) was an American cartoonist who worked under the pen name Marge. She was best known as the creator of Little Lulu.
Born Marjorie Lyman Henderson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Buell was 16...
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| x Barry Fantoni |
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Barry Ernest Fantoni (born 28 February 1940) is a writer, comic strip cartoonist and jazz musician of Italian and Jewish descent, most famous for his work with the magazine Private Eye, for whom he also created Neasden F.C. As of 2005 he remains a...
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| x Alex Raymond |
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Flash Gordon | 1934 |
Alexander Gillespie Raymond (October 2, 1909 – September 6, 1956) was an American cartoonist, best known for creating Flash Gordon for King Features in 1934. The strip was subsequently adapted into many other media, from a series of movie serials ...
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| x Murray Ball | Footrot Flats |
The New Zealand-born cartoonist Murray Hone Ball (born 1939 in Feilding in the Manawatu) has become known for his Stanley the Palaeolithic Hero (the longest running cartoon in Punch magazine), Bruce the Barbarian, All the King's Comrades (also in...
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| x Chip Dunham |
Robert John "Chip" Dunham (b. LaCrosse, Wisconsin) is a cartoonist best-known as the creator of the comic strip Overboard, which debuted in 1990.
The strip - which tells the comical tale of a group of pirates - is distributed through Universal Press...
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| x Al Capp |
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Li'l Abner |
Alfred Gerald Caplin (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979), better known as Al Capp, was an American cartoonist and humorist best known for the satirical comic strip Li'l Abner. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie an' Slats and Long Sam. He won...
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| x Dan Heilman |
Dan Heilman was the first artist of the Judge Parker comic strip. He was born in 1922 (some sources say 1924) in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Having served in World War II, Heilman became an assistant to artist Ken Ernst on the Mary Worth comic strip, and to...
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