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Thomas Nast's birth certificate issued under the auspices of the King of Bavaria on September 26, 1840 [1]. Thomas Nast (/ n æ s t /; German:; September 26, 1840 [2] – December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon".
John Tinney McCutcheon (May 6, 1870 – June 10, 1949) was an American newspaper political cartoonist, war correspondent, combat artist, and author who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1931 editorial cartoon, "A Wise Economist Asks a Question," and became known even before his death as the "Dean of American 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; it lists only those editorial cartoonists for whom a Wikipedia article already exists.
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 magazine in the 1840s - artists working earlier than that are more correctly termed 'caricaturists',
Martin Sonneborn (born 1965, Germany) – political jokester and satirist; Jon Stewart (born 1962, US) – The Daily Show; Matt Stone (born 1971, US) – South Park, The Book of Mormon; Vermin Supreme (born 1961, US) – performance artist, comedian and political satirist; Greg Thomey (born 1961, Canada) – comedian and playwright
Adalbert J. Volck (1828–1912) was a dentist, political cartoonist, and caricaturist born in Augsburg Bavaria, who resided for most of his life in Baltimore, Maryland. [2] A dentist by profession, Volck is best known for his support of the Confederacy during the American Civil War through his political cartoons, which has led him to be described as "the Northern art world's most famous ...
Cartoon about South Africa. Oliver Wendell Harrington (February 14, 1912 – November 2, 1995) was an American cartoonist of multi-ethnic descent and an outspoken advocate against racism and for civil rights in the United States. Langston Hughes called him "America's greatest African-American cartoonist". [1]
By 1983, Oliphant was the most widely syndicated American political cartoonist, with his work appearing in more than 500 newspapers. [17] His work influenced the field's overall appearance. For example, when he stopped using Duoshade, a chemical process for creating textured backgrounds, in the early 1980s, other cartoonists followed suit.