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A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising. Throughout the 20th century, cartoons were widely published in print media of various kinds, featured in magazines such as The New Yorker and Punch and distributed to newspapers through such organization as King Features Syndicate. Today, both original and vintage cartoons can be found online.
Cartoonists may work in many different formats: animation, booklets, comic strips, comic books, editorial cartoons, graphic novels, manuals, single-panel gag cartoons or video game packaging. A cartoonist traditionally developed rough sketches into finished pencil drawings and then, for reproduction purposes, completed the artwork in black India ink, using either a brush or a metal-nibbed pen. Traditionally, cartoonists often used a Winsor & Newton #3, Series 7 brush in combination with a crowquill pen. Today, many cartoonists work with Micron pens, which are made in six different sizes, from .20 mm to .50 mm.
Cartoonists increasingly work in digital media. To illustrate the Blondie comic strip, the cartoonist John Marshall works directly on a Wacom tablet connected to his Macintosh computer. In some cases, cartoonists work on properties created by their forebears.
Cartoonists
American
- George Baker
- Milton Caniff
- Al Capp
- Elliot Caplin
- Robert Crumb
- Billy DeBeck
- Chip Dunham
- Bud Fisher
- Rube Goldberg
- Matt Groening
- Harry Hershfield
- Charles William Kahles
- Walt Kelly
- William Henry "Bill" Mauldin
- Charles Monroe Schulz
- E. C. Segar
- Sidney Smith
- Wally Tripp (1940-2018), Wikipedia Article, "A Great Big Ugly Man Came Up and Tied His Horse To Me" and other covers
- VIP
- Chic Young
- Lyman Young
Argentinian
Belgian
Brazilian
- Henfil
- Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre
- Millôr Fernandes
- Paulo Caruso
- Péricles
- Zélio Alves Pinto
- Ziraldo
- Mauricio de Sousa
English
Filipino
Finnish
- Tove Jansson as in The Moomins. Her works have been translated to 45 languages.
- Mauri Kunnas in Wiki. His works have been translated to 35 languages.
- Kari Suomalainen, or "Kari".
- Mika Waltari
Franco-Belgian comic strip
- Christophe La famille Fenouillard
- Alain Saint-Ogan Zig et Puce
- Hergé Tintin et Milou
- Edgar P. Jacobs Blake et Mortimer
- Peyo Les Stroumpfs
Netherlands
Swedish
List of cartoonists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cartoonists
List of editorial cartoonists
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_editorial_cartoonists
List of American comics creators
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_comics_creators
List of comic creators
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_comic_creators
Sources
http://www.askart.com/askart/h
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/cartoonamerica/cartoon-punch.html