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• Carter Daniel
  Illustrator, writer, politician Beard was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, into a family of artists. As a youth in Painesville, he explored the woods and made sketches of nature. His father was the artist James Henry Beard and his mother was Mary Caroline (Carter) Beard. His uncle was the artist William ››
• Bradley Luther Daniels
  Connecticut Luther Bradley moved with his family to Chicago in 1857 and received his early education at Lake Forest Academy and Northwestern University; he attended Yale University until 1875, when he began to work in his father’s real estate office. In 1882 wanderlust and illness apparently, ››
• Boucquey Omer
  Animator, cartoonist Born in Dunkirk, northern France, on August 17, 1921. After studying drawing in high school, Omer Boucquey worked as an animator for advertising films. In 1942 he created the character Choupinet, a feisty little boy living in medieval times. Choupinet helped build the ››
• Clay Edward Williams
  Cartoonist, illustrator Edward Williams Clay (April 17, 1799 – December 31, 1857) was an American artist, illustrator and political cartoonist. He created the notoriously racist collection of lithographs titled Life in Philadelphia. He In 1799, Edward Williams Clay was born in Philadelphia, ››
• Wright Douglas Austin
  Cartoonist Douglas Austin Wright  was a Canadian cartoonist, best known for his weekly comic strip Doug Wright’s Family (1949–1980; also known as Nipper). The Doug Wright Awards are named after him to honour excellence in Canadian cartooning. After emigrating to Canada in 1938, Wright worked ››
• Lovetro Jose Alberto
  00/00/19?? – 29/11/1995 Cartoonist, journalist, screenwriter Jose Alberto Lovetro, better known as Jal, and as president of the Association of Cartoonists of Brazil (ACB). He started his career at Folha de S.Paulo in 1973, later worked in the main media in the country, such as the newspaper O ››
• Artis-Gener
  Journalist, writer, cartoonist, set designer Avelli Artis-Gener started journalism in 1928, at the age of 16. He devoted himself to creating cartoons, which he handed under the door of the editorial office of the weekly “Papitu”, which began to publish them. A year later, using the same ››
• Arnold Karl
  Painter, cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer, photographer Karl Maximilian Arnold, born into the family of Bavarian entrepreneur and politician Max Oskar Arnold, was the fourth of nine children. After receiving secondary education, he studies drawing and modeling at an industrial and craft ››
• Arno Peter
  Cartoonist Curtis Arnoux Peters Jr. (known professionally as Peter Arnault). He published cartoons and 101 covers for The New Yorker from 1925, the first year of the magazine’s existence, until 1968, the year of his death. In 2015, a New Yorker employee, Roger Angell, called him “the ››
• Bernal Antonio Arias
  1914 – 1960 Cartoonist Arias Bernal known as ‘The Brigadier’ was one of the most important political caricaturists of Mexico during the first half of the 20th Century. He launched a new and original style, characterized by simple strokes full of wit and irony. His drawings were published on Mexican ››
• Hume Norman Anthony
  Cartoonist Norman Hume Anthony was born in Buffalo, New York and later made his way to New York City to pursue a career as a cartoonist and illustrator. He eventually became editor of Judge Magazine and later of Life Magazine under its then owner, Charles Dana Gibson. He went on to create and edit ››
• Andersson Oscar
  Cartoonist, comic artist, animator Oscar Emil “O.A.” Andersson ― started working as a teenager at the Royal Mint. When he realized that his passion was connected with drawing, he entered a Technology school and graduated with honors. However, he was not interested in the design. His ››
• Andersson Martin
  1854 – 1932 Painter, cartoonist, illustrator Martin Anderson was born in Leuchars, Fife, in 1854. After his mother, Margaret Martin, separated from his father, she moved with her children to Cambuslang, Glasgow. Anderson studied at Glasgow School of Art under Robert Greenlees, in Ingram Street ››
• Altan Francesco
  Cartoonist, writer, illustrator Francesco Tullio-Altan studied architecture in Venice, but his professional life changed when his daughter Kika was born.  When Kika was three years old, he started writing short stories, and has not stopped since. In addition to children’s books, he writes and ››
• Anderson Bradley
  Cartoonist, comic artist He has been doing cartoons since he was a student at Brocton Central High School (Brocton, New York), from which he graduated in 1943. After completing his studies, he served in the US Army until 1946, during which time he continued to paint. Initially aspiring to become an ››
• Alley J.P.
  1885 – 04/16/1934 Cartoonist He was an editorial cartoonist (political cartoonist) whose work directed against the Ku Klux Klan earned his employer, the Memphis Commercial Appeal newspaper, the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. He was best known for his Hambone’s Meditations, a ››
• Alley Cal
  Cartoonist Born in Memphis, Cal Ally was the son of James Pinckney Ally, creator of the serial comic Hambone’s Meditations and the first editorial cartoonist at The Commercial Appeal in 1916. “Hambone’s Meditations” was published on the front page of The Commercial Appeal. ››
• Allen T. S.
  1870 – 1930 Cartoonist T.S. Allen was an American cartoonist born in Fayette County, Kentucky, around 1870. He attended the James Kane Allen’s school and graduated in classical languages from the Transylvania University in Lexington. In the 1890s, he moved to New York to work as a clerc ››
• Dudzinski Andrzej
  Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, cartoonist Born in 1945 in Sopot. Andrzej Dudziński studied architecture at the Gdańsk University of Technology from 1966 to 1968, and then interior design and graphic art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk. He earned his degree at the Graphic Arts ››
• Alho Asmo
  Cartoonist, illustrator, comics artist, editor Alho’s most famous cartoon was Kieku ja Kaiku, which he drew until his death in Cotiliete. The Kieku ja Kaiku comic began appearing in 1931, starting with a trial issue in Oma Koti magazine. The events took place on the farm of two cockerels, ››