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Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr (August 25, 1913–October 18, 1973), known as Walt Kelly, was a cartoonist notable for his comic strip Pogo featuring characters that inhabited a portion of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. Walter Crawford Kelly, Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. While he was still a child, his family moved to Bridgeport, Connecticut where his father worked in a munitions plant. After graduating from Warren Harding High School in 1930, Kelly worked a few odd jobs until...

Keith Gerald "Jerry" Holkins (born February 6,1976), is the writer of the webcomic Penny Arcade. Holkins goes by the pseudonym "Tycho Brahe". This is also the name of one of the two main characters of Penny Arcade, who is a cartoonized self-insertion of Holkins. However, as the character of Tycho was not originally meant to represent Holkins, the two have few physical similarities, where Holkins is somewhat corpulent and bald, Tycho is slim and endowed with a luxuriant head of hair; they are...

William "Will" Elder (September 22, 1921 – May 15, 2008) was an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art, but is best known for a zany cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book in 1952. Mad publisher Bill Gaines approvingly called Elder "unquestionably the nuttiest guy who ever walked in the doors here." Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner said, "He was a zany, and a lovable one." Longtime Mad writer-cartoonist Al Jaffee...

Virgil Franklin Partch (October 17, 1916 - August 10, 1984) was one of the most prominent and prolific American magazine gag cartoonists of the 1940s and 1950s. His unusual style, surreal humor and familiar abbreviated signature (VIP) made his cartoons distinctive and eye-catching. Partch's cartoons expressed a dry, sardonic wit, and his characters were instantly recognizable by their lipless mouths, large triangular noses, thin ankles and thin wrists, and sometimes well-combed bangs. He was a...

Sindre Wexelsen Goksøyr (born 1975 in Oslo) is a comic artist. He also had a brief career as an undistinguished hardcore band musician. His strips have been published by Jippi Comics and Egmont Serieforlaget, as well as some magazine and newspaper. His comic strip Mor, which runs in the Bergen-based tabloid Bergens Tidende, caused some local attention when foul language and obscene content failed to be censored because the editor was away on holiday.

William Donahey (19 October 1883 – 2 February 1970) was a U.S. cartoon artist and creator of the Teenie Weenies, a comic strip about two inch tall people living under a rosebush. The strip appeared in the Chicago Tribune for over 50 years. He drew the Teenie Weenies characters for a total of about 2100 strips. His work appeared in places all around the world. Donahey, being an introverted child, spent much of his childhood alone. One of his pastimes was imagining strange creatures in a small...

Johnny Hart (February 18 1931 – April 7 2007) was an American cartoonist noted as the creator of the comic strip B.C. and co-creator of the strip The Wizard of Id. Hart was recognized with several awards, including five from the National Cartoonists Society, and the Swedish Adamson Award. In his later years, he sparked controversy by incorporating overtly Christian themes and messages into the strips. Hart's first published work was shown in Stars and Stripes while he served in Korea as an...

Bil Keane (born October 5 1922) is an American cartoonist best known for his work on the long-running newspaper comic The Family Circus, which began its run in 1960 and continues in syndication. Keane was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He taught himself to draw while attending Northeast Catholic High School by mimicking the style of the cartoons published in The New Yorker. His first cartoon was published on May 21 1936 on the amateur page of the Philadelphia Daily News. Keane served in...

Walter Berndt (1899-1979) was a comic strip artist born in Brooklyn, New York. He worked as an office boy at the New York Journal, before starting his own career in comics. In 1924 he created the comic strip Smitty, which he continued on through 1973. He won the Reuben Award for 1969 for this strip. He also produced the comic strip Herby from 1938 through 1960.

Lloyd Piper (1923-1983) was an Australian cartoonist and art teacher, who drew Wolf for the Sunday Telegraph and later, Ginger Meggs.

Cabu (real name Jean Cabut, born January 13, 1938, Châlons-en-Champagne, France) is a French comic strip artist and carticaturist. He started out studying art at the École Estienne in Paris and his drawings were first published by 1954 in a local newspaper. The Algerian War forced him to be conscripted in Army for over two years, where his talent was used in the army magazine Bled and in Paris-Match. His time in the army caused him to become a strident anti-militarist and adopt a slightly...

Jen Sorensen (born September 28, 1974) is an American cartoonist who authors ''Slowpoke'', a weekly comic strip that often focuses on current events and college life (at the University of Virginia) from a liberal perspective. The comic generally makes use of three recurring characters: Mr. Perkins, Little Gus, and Drooly Julie. Sorensen was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She enrolled in University of Virginia, where she drew a daily comic strip, Li'l Gus, for its student newspaper...

Alex Kotzky was a cartoonist who for many years drew the comic strip Apartment 3-G. He received the National Cartoonist Society Story Comic Strip Award for 1968 for his work on the series. He died in 1996. Kotzky, Alex

Lyonel Charles Feininger (July 17 1871 – January 13 1956); was a German-American painter and caricaturist. Feininger was born to parents of German descent and grew up in New York City. He moved to Berlin, in 1887, to study at the Königliche Akademie Berlin under Ernst Hancke and art schools in Berlin with Karl Schlabitz and in Paris with sculptor Filippo Colarossi. He started working as a caricaturist for several magazines including Harper's Round Table, Harper's Young People, Humoristische...