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, ...
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List of caricaturists
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Abed Abdi
Abed Abdi (, ; 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 Israel. After studying in Dresden, Abdi became ...
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Abril Lamarque (1904–1999)
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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.
Early life and career
Al Hirschfeld was born in 1903 in a two-story duplex apa ...
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Alex Gard
Alex Gard (born Alexei Mikhailovich Kremkov, ; also tr. Kremkoff; June 17, 1898 – June 1, 1948) was a Russian American cartoonist. He was a regular cartoonist for newspapers, magazines and books, but is most well known for his celebrity caric ...
(1900–1948)
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Alexander Saroukhan (1898–1977)
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Alfred Frueh (1880–1968)
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Alfred Grévin (1827–1892)
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Alfred Schmidt (1858–1938)
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Amédée de Noé, also known as
Cham (1818–1879)
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Amnon David Ar (born 1973)
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Andre Gill (1840–1885)
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Angelo Torres (born 1932)
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Arifur Rahman
Arifur Rahman (born August 8, 1984) is a Bangladeshis, Bangladeshi-Norwegians, 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 ...
(born 1984)
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Arthur Good (1853–1928)
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Aurelius Battaglia (1910–1984)
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Lluís Bagaria (1882–1940)
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Bill Plympton
Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946) is an American animator, graphic designer, cartoonist, and filmmaker best known for his 1987 Academy Award–nominated animated short '' Your Face'' and his series of shorts featuring a dog character starting ...
(born 1946)
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Bob Staake (born 1957)
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Boris Yefimov (1899–2008)
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Bruce Stark (1933–2012)
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Cabu (1938–2015)
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Carlo Pellegrini (1839–1889)
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Cem Kiziltug (born 1974)
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Charles Williams (1798–1830)
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Conrado Walter Massaguer (1889–1965)
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Dan Dunn (born 1957)
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Daniel Stieglitz (born 1980)
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David Levine (1926–2009)
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Sir David Low (1891–1963)
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Dennis Porter (born 1949)
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Don Barclay (1892–1975)
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Donald Bevan (1920–2013)
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Drew Friedman
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Dušan Petričić
Dušan Petričić ( sr-cyr, Душан Петричић; born 10 May 1946) is a Serbian illustrator and Caricature, caricaturist. He has illustrated numerous children's books and his caricatures have appeared in various newspapers and magazines f ...
(born 1946)
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Edmund S. Valtman (1914–2005)
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Emad Hajjaj (born 1967)
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Émile Cohl
Émile Eugène Jean Louis Cohl (; né Courtet; 4 January 1857 – 20 January 1938) was a French caricaturist of the Incoherent Movement, cartoonist, and animator, called "The Father of the Animated Cartoon".
Biography
Émile's father, Elie, ...
(1857–1938)
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Emilio Coia (1911–1997)
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GAL (born 1940)
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Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, also known as
Nadar
Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (; 5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar () or Félix Nadar'','' was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloon (aircraft), balloonist, and proponent of History of avi ...
(1820–1910)
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Gavin Bell (born 1971)
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George Bahgoury (born 1932)
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George Bickham the Younger (c. 1706–1771)
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George Cruikshank
George Cruikshank or Cruickshank ( ; 27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern William Hogarth, Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dicken ...
(1792–1880)
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George Moutard Woodward (c. 1760–1809)
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George Wachsteter (1911–2004)
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Georges Goursat (1863–1934)
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Gerald Scarfe
Gerald Anthony Scarfe (born 1 June 1936) is an English satirical cartoonist and illustrator. He has worked as editorial cartoonist for ''The Sunday Times (UK), The Sunday Times'' and illustrator for ''The New Yorker''.
Scarfe’s other work in ...
(born 1936)
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Gerhard Haderer (born 1951)
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Glen Hanson
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Glynis Sweeny (born 1962)
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György Rózsahegyi (1940–2010)
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Count, ''Comte'' Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), known as Toulouse-Lautrec (), was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colour ...
(1864–1901)
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Henry Bateman (1887–1970)
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Henry Bunbury (1750–1811)
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Henry Wigstead (died 1800)
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Hermann Mejia (born 1973)
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Honoré Daumier
Honoré-Victorin Daumier (; February 26, 1808 – February 10 or 11, 1879) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the July Revolution, Revolution of 1830 ...
(1808–1879)
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Isa Macnie (1869–1958)
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Isaac Cruikshank (1786–1856)
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Jack Davis (1924–2016)
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Jacques Callot
Jacques Callot (; – 1635) was a baroque printmaker and drawing, draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine. He is an important person in the development of the old master print. He made more than 1,400 etchings that chronicled the life of his peri ...
(1592–1635)
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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 list of c ...
(1756–1815)
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James Sayers (caricaturist)
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)
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Jaume Capdevila
Jaume Capdevila, known by the pseudonym Kap (born 1974), is a Spanish a cartoonist and caricaturist.
Biography
Capdevila was born in 1974 in Berga, Barcelona, Spain. He works for journals of Barcelona: La Vanguardia, El Mundo Deportivo, and other ...
, "Kap" (born 1974)
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Javad Alizadeh (born 1953)
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J.J. Grandville (1803–1847)
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Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800–1869)
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Jeff Hook (1928–2018)
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Jim McDermott (born 1960)
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Joe Grant
Joseph Clarence Grant (May 15, 1908 – May 6, 2005) was an American conceptual artist, storyboard artist, and screenwriter.
Early life
Grant was born on May 15, 1908 in New York City on the Lower East Side. He was the son of George Albert G ...
(1908–2005)
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John Doyle (1797–1868)
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John Kay (1742–1826)
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John Leech (1817–1864)
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John Tenniel
John Tenniel (; 28 February 182025 February 1914) was an English illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. An alumnus of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, he was knight bachelor ...
(1820–1914)
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Jovan Prokopljević (born 1940)
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Karl Meersman (born 1961)
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Kate Carew (1869–1961)
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Ken Fallin (born 1948)
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Kenny Meadows (1790–1874)
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Kerry G. Johnson (born 1966)
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Kerry Waghorn (born 1947)
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Louis Hirshman (1905–1986)
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Luigi Borgomainerio (1836–1876)
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Malky McCormick (1943–2019)
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Marc Sleen (1922–2016)
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Marjorie Organ (1886–1930)
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Massoud Mehrabi (1954–2020)
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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 theatre crit ...
(1872–1956)
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Melchiorre Delfico (1825–1895)
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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 (magazine), Mad'', where he specialized in satires on the leading feature film ...
(1929–2020)
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Morten Morland (born 1979)
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Murray Webb (born 1947)
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Nikolai Stepanov (1807–1877)
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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 stud ...
(1936–2004)
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Osama Hajjaj (born 1973)
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Oscar Berger (1901–1997)
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Omaya Joha (born 1972)
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Patrick Oliphant (born 1935)
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Paul Gavarni (1804–1866)
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Pedro X. Molina
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Peggy Bacon (1895–1987)
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Peter Fluck (born 1941)
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Philip Burke (born 1956)
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Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674–1755)
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Prakash Shetty (born 1960)
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Predrag Koraksić Corax (born 1933)
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Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (1846–1905)
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Ralph Steadman (born 1936)
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Ranan Lurie (1932–2022)
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Raoul Hunter (1926–2018)
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Richard Newton (1777–1798)
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Robert Grossman (1940–2018)
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Robert Risko (born 1956)
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Roger Law (born 1941)
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Ronald Searle
Ronald William Fordham Searle (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 School and f ...
(1920–2011)
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S. Jithesh (born 1974)
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Sam Berman (1906–1995)
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Sam Norkin (1917–2011)
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Sam Viviano (born 1953)
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Sebastian Krüger (born 1963)
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Seyran Caferli (born 1966)
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Shawn McManus (born 1958)
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Shekhar Gurera, India (born 1965)
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Stephen Rotluanga (born 1952)
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Steve Bell (born 1951)
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Steve Brodner (born 1954)
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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 sharp critic of William M. Tweed, "Boss" Tweed and the T ...
(1840–1902)
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Thomas Rowlandson
Thomas Rowlandson (; 13 July 1757 – 21 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 soc ...
(1756–1827)
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Tom Bachtell (born 1957)
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Tom Richmond (born 1966)
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Vitaliy Peskov (1944–2002) (Russian:
Виталий Песков)
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Vyvyan Donner (1895–1965)
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William Auerbach-Levy (1889–1964)
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William Austin (1721–1820)
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William Heath (1794–1840)
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William Hogarth
William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraving, engraver, pictorial social satire, satirist, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from Realism (visual arts), realistic p ...
(1697–1764)
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Wolo (1902–1989)
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Wyncie King (1884–1961)
See also
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List of cartoonists
This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons. This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch maga ...
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List of editorial cartoonists
This is a list of editorial cartoonists of the past and present sorted by nationality. An editorial cartoonist is an artist, a cartoonist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. The list is incomplete ...
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List of graphic designers
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List of science fiction visual artists
References
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