A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing

caricature A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon). Caricatures can be either insulting or complimentary, ...

List of caricaturists

Abed Abdi Abed Abdi ( ar, عبد عابدي, he, עבד עאבדי; born February 1942 in Haifa) is a Palestinian painter, graphic designer, sculptor and art lecturer. Abdi worked as a blacksmith and illustrated Arabic publications that appeared in Isra ...

(born 1942) *

Al Hirschfeld Albert Hirschfeld (June 21, 1903 – January 20, 2003) was an American caricaturist best known for his black and white portraits of celebrities and Broadway stars. Personal life Al Hirschfeld was born in 1903 in a two-story duplex at 1313 Carr ...

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Alex Gard Alex Gard (born Alexei Mikhailovich Kremkov, russian: Алексе́й Миха́йлович Кремко́в; also tr. Kremkoff; June 17, 1898 – June 1, 1948) was a Russian American cartoonist. He was a regular cartoonist for newspapers, mag ...

(1900–1948) *

Alexander Saroukhan Alexander Saroukhan ( hy, Ալեքսանդր Յակոբի Սարուխան, ar, إسكندر صاروخان ; October 1, 1898 – 1977) was an Armenian- Egyptian cartoonist and caricaturist whose drawings have appeared in a number of Arabic and ...

(1898–1977) * Alfred Grévin (1827–1892) * Alfred Schmidt (1858–1938) * Amédée de Noé, also known as

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(1818–1879) * Amnon David Ar (born 1973) * Andre Gill (1840–1885) *

Angelo Torres Angelo Torres (born April 14, 1932, in Santurce, Puerto Rico) is an American cartoonist and caricaturist whose work has appeared in many noteworthy comic books, as well as a long-running regular illustrator for '' Mad''. EC Comics Torres was f ...

(born 1932) *

Arifur Rahman Arifur Rahman (born August 8, 1984) is a Bangladeshi- Norwegian political cartoonist, illustrator and animator. He is a self-taught cartoonist who is renowned for his contribution to cartoons both on the internet and in print media. In Bangladesh ...

(born 1984) * Arthur Good (1853–1928) * Aurelius Battaglia (1910–1984) * Lluís Bagaria (1882–1940) *

Bill Plympton Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946) is an American animator, graphic designer, cartoonist, and filmmaker best known for his 1987 Academy Awards-nominated animated short '' Your Face'' and his series of shorts featuring a dog character starting wit ...

(born 1946) *

Bob Staake Bob Staake (born September 26, 1957 in Los Angeles) is an American illustrator, cartoonist, children's book author and designer. He lives and works in Chatham, Massachusetts on the elbow of Cape Cod. After drawing editorial cartoons while at ...

(born 1957) *

Boris Yefimov Boris Yefimovich Yefimov (russian: Бори́с Ефи́мович Ефи́мов; ,The birth record of Boris Fridlyand (Boris Yefimov) in the metric book of the Kiev rabbinate for 1900 ( ЦГИАК Украины. Ф. 1164. Оп. 1. Д. 454. Л. ...

(1899–2008) *

Bruce Stark Bruce Stark (1933 - December 29, 2012) was an American artist noted for his caricatures of entertainment and sports figures. Born in 1933 in New York, he moved with his family at age three to New Jersey. After serving with the Navy during the Ko ...

(1933–2012) *

Cabu Jean Maurice Jules Cabut (; 13 January 19387 January 2015), known by the pen-name Cabu (), was a French comic strip artist and caricaturist. He was murdered in the January 2015 shooting attack on the '' Charlie Hebdo'' newspaper offices. Cabu ...

(1938–2015) * Carlo Pellegrini (1839–1889) * Cem Kiziltug (born 1974) * Charles Williams (1798–1830) *

Dan Dunn Dan Dunn is a fictional detective created by Norman W. Marsh. He first appeared in ''Detective Dan: Secret Operative No. 48'', a proto-comic book from 1933, produced by Humor Publishing. He subsequently appeared in newspaper comic strips from 193 ...

(born 1957) *

Daniel Stieglitz Daniel Stieglitz (born 4 March 1980 in Cham, (Germany)) is a caricature artist, director and writer. He studied animation, illustration and filmmaking at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in Hessia and graduated with the 45min movie "Spielzeugland End ...

(born 1980) *

David Levine David Levine (December 20, 1926 – December 29, 2009) was an American artist and illustrator best known for his caricatures in ''The New York Review of Books''. Jules Feiffer has called him "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of th ...

(1926–2009) * Sir David Low (1891–1963) * Don Barclay (1892–1975) *

Donald Bevan Donald Joseph Bevan (January 16, 1920 Holyoke, Massachusetts – May 29, 2013 Studio City, California) was an American playwright whose works include the Broadway play ''Stalag 17'', co-written with Edmund Trzcinski, and adapted as a movie in 19 ...

(1920–2013) * Drew Friedman *

Dušan Petričić Dušan Petričić ( sr-cyr, Душан Петричић; born 10 May 1946) is a Serbian illustrator and caricaturist. He has illustrated numerous children's books and his caricatures have appeared in various newspapers and magazines from ''Poli ...

(born 1946) * Edmund S. Valtman (1914–2005) * Emad Hajjaj (born 1967) *

Émile Cohl Émile Eugène Jean Louis Cohl (; né Courtet; 4 January 1857 – 20 January 1938) was a French caricaturist of the largely forgotten Incoherent Movement, cartoonist, and animator, called "The Father of the Animated Cartoon" and "The Oldest Pa ...

(1857–1938) * Emilio Coia (1911–1997) * GAL (born 1940) * Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, also known as

Nadar Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person ...

(1820–1910) * Gavin Bell (born 1971) * George Bahgoury (born 1932) *

George Bickham the Younger George Bickham the Younger (c. 1706–1771) was an English etcher and engraver, a printseller, and one of the first English caricaturists. He produced didactic publications, political caricatures, and pornographical prints. He was the son of the ...

(c. 1706–1771) *

George Cruikshank George Cruikshank (27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reache ...

(1792–1880) *

George Moutard Woodward George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765–1809) was an English caricaturist and humor writer. He was a friend and drinking companion of Thomas Rowlandson. Biography Woodward was born in Stanton Hall, in Stanton by Dale in Derbyshire, England the son o ...

(c. 1760–1809) * George Wachsteter (1911–2004) *

Georges Goursat Georges Goursat ( – ), known as Sem, was a French caricature, caricaturist famous during the ''Belle Époque''. Life and works Youth (1863–1900) Georges Goursat was born and raised in an upper-middle-class family from Périgueux. The weal ...

(1863–1934) * Gerald Scarfe (born 1936) *

Gerhard Haderer Gerhard Haderer (; born 1951 in Leonding, Austria) is an Austrian cartoonist and caricaturist. His brother Josef Haderer was a professional footballer. Early life Haderer studied at a technical art school in Linz for four years from 1965, and ...

(born 1951) * Glen Hanson * Glynis Sweeny (born 1962) * György Rózsahegyi (1940–2010) *

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in th ...

(1864–1901) * Henry Bateman (1887–1970) * Henry Bunbury (1750–1811) *

Henry Wigstead Henry Wigstead (died 1800) was an English Magistrate, publisher, businessman, amateur painter & caricaturist. He was a patron and close personal friend of Thomas Rowlandson, whom he accompanied on sketching trips to the Isle of Wight (1784), Brigh ...

(died 1800) *

Hermann Mejia Hermann or Herrmann may refer to: * Hermann (name), list of people with this name * Arminius, chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe in the 1st century, known as Hermann in the German language * Éditions Hermann, French publisher * Hermann, Miss ...

(born 1973) *

Honoré Daumier Honoré-Victorin Daumier (; February 26, 1808February 10, 1879) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the second N ...

(1808–1879) * Isa Macnie (1869–1958) *

Isaac Cruikshank Isaac Cruikshank ( bapt. 14 October 1764 1811) was a Scottish painter and caricaturist, known for his social and political satire. Biography Cruikshank was the son of Andrew Crookshanks ( 1725 c. 1783), a former customs inspector, dispossess ...

(1786–1856) * Jack Davis (1924–2016) *

Jacques Callot Jacques Callot (; – 1635) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the north-eastern border of France, southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the southern Netherlands). He is an impor ...

(1592–1635) *

James Gillray James Gillray (13 August 1756Gillray, James and Draper Hill (1966). ''Fashionable contrasts''. Phaidon. p. 8.Baptism register for Fetter Lane (Moravian) confirms birth as 13 August 1756, baptism 17 August 1756 1June 1815) was a British caricatur ...

(1756–1815) *

James Sayers James Sayers (or Sayer) (1748 – April 20, 1823) was an English caricaturist . Many of his works are described in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum which h ...

(1748–1825) * Jaume Capdevila, "Kap" (born 1974) *

Javad Alizadeh Javad Alizadeh ( fa, جواد علیزاده Javād Alīzādeh ; professional name: Javad; born 9 January 1953) is an Iranian professional cartoonist best known for his caricatures of politicians, comic actors, footballers, and for his scienti ...

(born 1953) * J.J. Grandville (1803–1847) * Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800–1869) *

Jeff Hook Geoffrey Raynor Hook (27 December 1928 – 20 July 2018) was an Australian artist and editorial cartoonist. Hook was married to Pauline from 1961 and had five children. Career After attending St Virgil's College, Hobart, Hook started as a cad ...

(1928–2018)de Becker, Paul (1991). CARTOONS 1991 International Cartoon Festival Knokke-Heist. Belgium: Davidsfonds/Leuven. *

Jim McDermott James Adelbert McDermott (born December 28, 1936) is an American politician and psychiatrist who was the U.S. representative for from 1989 to 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The 7th District includes most of Seattle, Vashon I ...

(born 1960) *

Joe Grant Joe Grant (May 15, 1908 – May 7, 2005) was an American artist and writer. Biography Born in New York City, Grant worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios as a character designer and story artist beginning in 1932 on the Mickey Mouse shor ...

(1908–2005) * John Doyle (1797–1868) * John Kay (1742–1826) * John Leech (1817–1864) *

John Tenniel Sir John Tenniel (; 28 February 182025 February 1914)Johnson, Lewis (2003), "Tenniel, John", ''Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online'', Oxford University Press. Web. Retrieved 12 December 2016. was an English illustrator, graphic humorist and poli ...

(1820–1914) * Jovan Prokopljević (born 1940) * Karl Meersman (born 1961) *

Kate Carew Mary Williams (June 27, 1869 – February 11, 1961), who wrote pseudonymously as Kate Carew, was an American caricaturist self-styled as "The Only Woman Caricaturist". She worked at the ''New York World'', providing illustrated celebrity int ...

(1869–1961) *

Ken Fallin Ken Fallin (born November 11, 1948 in Jacksonville, Florida) is an American illustrator and caricaturist."You're Nobody Until You've Been Fallined", Leaders' magazine, July–September 2003, Volume 26, Number 3, p.118. His first big break was in ...

(born 1948) *

Kenny Meadows Joseph Kenny Meadows, (November 1790–August 1874) better known as Kenny Meadows, was a British caricaturist and illustrator. He is best known for the drawings that he contributed to ''Punch'' and for his illustrations of scenes from Shakespear ...

(1790–1874) *

Kerry G. Johnson Kerry G. Johnson is an African-American cartoonist, graphic designer, art director, caricaturist and children's book illustrator. He specializes in caricatures but has created cartoons, illustrations and news graphic work (maps, information gra ...

(born 1966) * Kerry Waghorn (born 1947) * Louis Hirshman (1905–1986) * Luigi Borgomainerio (1836–1876) * Malky McCormick (1943–2019) * Marc Sleen (1922–2016) * Marjorie Organ (1886–1930) *

Massoud Mehrabi Massoud Mehrabi (1954 – 31 August 2020) was an Iranian journalist, writer and caricaturist. He studied cinema at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the University of Art (1977–1982). and later passed a Film Production Management course at th ...

(1954–2020) *

Max Beerbohm Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, Parody, parodist and Caricature, caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic ...

(1872–1956) * Melchiorre Delfico (1825–1895) *

Mort Drucker Morris "Mort" Drucker (March 22, 1929 – April 9, 2020) was an American caricaturist and comics artist best known as a contributor for over five decades in '' Mad'', where he specialized in satires on the leading feature films and televisio ...

(1929–2020) * Murray Webb (born 1947) * Nikolai Stepanov (1807–1877) *

Oğuz Aral Oğuz Aral (1936 – 26 July 2004) was a Turkish political cartoonist and comics artist, known for his satirical style. He was also active as a theatre designer, playwright, ceramist and animator, establishing the first Turkish animation studio. ...

(1936–2004) * Osama Hajjaj (born 1973) * Oscar Berger (1901–1997) *

Omaya Joha Umayyah Juha or Omaya Joha (Arabic: أمية جحا ) is a Palestinian artist and political cartoonist. She was born in Gaza City on 2 February 1972. She won the Arab Journalism Award for the year 2001. She is the first female cartoonist in th ...

(born 1972) * Patrick Oliphant (born 1935) *

Paul Gavarni Paul Gavarni was the pen name of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (13 January 1804 – 24 November 1866), a French illustrator, born in Paris. Early career Gavarni's father, Sulpice Chevalier, was from a family line of coopers from Burgundy. Paul ...

(1804–1866) * Pedro X. Molina *

Peggy Bacon Margaret Frances Bacon (May 2, 1895 – January 4, 1987) was an American artist, best known for her satirical caricatures. Bacon studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League of New York, where she taught herself drypoint an ...

(1895–1987) *

Philip Burke Philip Burke (born 1956 in Buffalo, New York) is an American caricature artist and illustrator, known for his vivid portraits that appeared in the pages of ''Rolling Stone'' magazine for almost a decade. Burke's work extends beyond the likes of ...

(born 1956) *

Pier Leone Ghezzi Pier Leone Ghezzi (28 June 1674 – 6 March 1755) was an Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome. Biography Ghezzi was born and died in Rome. He trained under his father, Giuseppe Ghezzi, who also trained Antonio Amorosi. ...

(1674–1755) *

Prakash Shetty Prakash Shetty is an Indian cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrator ...

(born 1960) *

Predrag Koraksić Corax Predrag Koraksić Corax ( sr, Предраг Кораксић Коракс; born 15 June 1933) is a Serbian political caricaturist. Name signature He writes his signature Corax using Latin characters and spelling. Biography Koraksić was born on ...

(born 1933) *

Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (21 March 1846 – 23 January 1905; spelled Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro in older Portuguese orthography) was a Portuguese artist known for his illustration, caricatures, sculpture, and ceramics designs. Bordalo Pinheiro ...

(1846–1905) *

Ralph Steadman Ralph Idris Steadman (born 15 May 1936) is a British illustrator best known for his collaboration and friendship with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman is renowned for his political and social caricatures, cartoons and picture ...

(born 1936) * Ranan Lurie (1932–2022) * Raoul Hunter (1926–2018) * Richard Newton (1777–1798) *

Robert Grossman Robert Grossman (March 1, 1940 – March 15, 2018) was an American painter, sculptor, filmmaker, comics artist, illustrator and author. In a career spanning fifty years, Grossman's illustrations have appeared over 500 times on the covers of var ...

(1940–2018) * Robert Risko (born 1956) *

Ronald Searle Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011) was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and illustrator. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's S ...

(1920–2011) * S. Jithesh (born 1974) * Sam Berman (1906–1995) * Sam Norkin (1917–2011) *

Sam Viviano Sam Viviano (born March 13, 1953 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American caricature artist and art director. Viviano’s caricatures are known for their wide jaws, which Viviano has explained is a result of his incorporation of side views as well a ...

(born 1953) *

Sebastian Krüger Sebastian Krüger (born June 30, 1963, in Hamelin, Germany) is a German artist. After studying free painting with Prof. Dörfler at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts he made a stunning reputation as the designer of a number of cover spre ...

(born 1963) * Seyran Caferli (born 1966) * Shawn McManus (born 1958) *

Shekhar Gurera Lalit Kala Academy Shekhar Gurera, or Chander Shekhar Gurera, is an Indian editorial cartoonist, illustrator, and graphic designer. He publishes regular cartoons with comments about India's political and social trends. His daily pocket cartoons ...

, India (born 1965) * Stephen Rotluanga (born 1952) * Steve Bell (born 1951) *

Steve Brodner Steve Brodner (born October 19, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York) is a satirical illustrator and caricaturist working for publications in the US since the 1970s. He is accepted in the fields of journalism and the graphic arts as a master of the edito ...

(born 1954) *

Thomas Nast Thomas Nast (; ; September 26, 1840December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon". He was a critic of Democratic Representative "Boss" Tweed and ...

(1840–1902) *

Thomas Rowlandson Thomas Rowlandson (; 13 July 175721 April 1827) was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced both individual social an ...

(1756–1827) * Tom Bachtell (born 1957) * Tom Richmond (born 1966) *

Vitaliy Peskov Vitaly Viktorovich Peskov (russian: Вита́лий Ви́кторович Песко́в, May 12, 1944 – March 12, 2002) was a Russian cartoonist who also worked as an illustrator and an animation director. In 2000, Vitaly Peskov was ...

(1944–2002) (Russian: Виталий Песков) * Vyvyan Donner (1895–1965)Democrat-Times staff (May 4, 1956)
"Miss Vyvyan Donner to Be Guest at Delta Council Meeting in Cleveland"
''The Delta-Democrat-Times''. p. 3. Retrieved July 5, 2021. * William Auerbach-Levy (1889–1964) * William Austin (1721–1820) * William Heath (1794–1840) *

William Hogarth William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like ...

(1697–1764) * Wyncie King (1884–1961)

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