Filed under: Cartoonist’s Cartoonists

One cannot understate the influence Wiley Miller has had on newspaper comics and in ways far beyond artistic style.

It’s hard to find an article or review of Bob Staake that doesn’t include a line about Bob being “one of the most prolific illustrators” of his generation. Which isn’t exactly true. He’s also a cartoonist, children’s book writer and artist, political and commercial artist. In his 50 year career he’s worked with just about […]

To call Lynn Johnston a legend would undersell her influence on newspaper comic strips. Her strip For Better or for Worse launched in 1979 and quickly became one of the most widely syndicated comic strips with a client list rivaling those of Peanuts and Garfield. FBoFW was one of the few comic strips whose characters […]

Katie Cook is a comic artist, illustrator, and a writer. She created the webcomics Gronk (2010-2015) and started a weekly comic called Nothing Special in 2017 that is still going string. You can read a new comic each Tuesday over at Webtoon. Nothing Special has also been printed in three volumes (I, II, III) by […]

Garry Trudeau didn’t plan on being a cartoonist. But he quickly became one of the most influential cartoonists in modern cartooning with his comic Doonesbury. Launched in 1970, Doonesbury quickly became a must-read for fans, politicians, and journalists. In the new Trudeau biography, Joshua Kendall writes, “at the annual dinner of the Radio and Television […]

Growing up in remote Nova Scotia, Kate Beaton may not have a wealth of comic art surrounding her, but as you’ll read below, she found inspiration from a variety of sources. And that foundation has served her well as she’s become an award winning cartoonist, children’s book author, and non-fiction graphic novelist.For those not familiar […]

Today’s Cartoonist’s Cartoonists is Matt Golding. Matt is an Australian editorial cartoonist whose work appears in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.He’s won multiple Stanley Awards – his first award for single gag cartoonist was in 2005 and he kept winning that category through 2010. He’s won the award twice more in 2016 and 2020. […]

Pedro X. Molina has spent more than 20 years drawing political cartoons skewering Nicaragua’s dictatorship and government. In 2018 the government hit back. After police killed one journalist, jailed two others, and pillaged the Confidencial’s offices, Pedro and his family were forced to flee his home country. With the assistance of Ithaca City of Asylum, […]

Alex Hallatt, a U.K. cartoonist based in New Zealand, graduated from the University of Kent at Canterbury with a degree in biochemistry and has never strayed far from science. Her syndicated comic strip Arctic Circle, follows three penguins who migrate to the Arctic and provide commentary on environmental and social issues, debuted in newspapers in […]

For our re-boot of The Cartoonist’s Cartoonists, I was excited that Ann Telnaes agreed to provide us a list of her 10 cartoonists who influenced or inspired her work and career. Ann is the award winning political cartoonist for The Washington Post. She has won every major prize in editorial cartooning including The National Headliner […]

Lightening doesn’t often strike twice in the comics world. Jerry Scott is the co-creator of two of the most widely syndicated comic strips on the market right now – Baby Blues and Zits. Jerry’s cut his teeth in syndication back in 1983 when he took over Ernie Bushmiller’s Nancy comic strip which he did for for 12 years eventually handing it over to Guy Gilchirst in 1995.

Back in the late 2007, I began a feature called, “The Cartoonist’s Cartoonists” – a tribute feature where a notable cartoonist is invited to share with The Daily Cartoonist readers the cartoonists (or artists) that they feel have had an impact on their work or whose work they admire. Think of it as a celebrity […]

Dan’s website Dan’s blog Follow Dan on Twitter Find Bizarro books at Amazon News Coverage Download his Bizarro app from the App Store With the return of the Cartoonist’s Cartoonists feature, I could think of no better person to kick it off than this year’s National Cartoonists Society’s Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the […]

Visit Clay’s work with the Chattanooga Times Free Press Not having spotlighted an editorial cartoonist in my Cartoonist’s Cartoonists feature, I wanted to make sure it was a cartoonist who had a unique artistic style. I’m happy to feature Chattanooga Times Free Press cartoonist Clay Bennett.Clay started his cartooning career while attending the University of […]

Visit Tom’s web site Check out Tom’s books Tom Batiuk began his cartooning career while teaching Jr. High in Elyria Ohio in 1970 when he created a comic panel for the Elyria Chronical-Telegram. The panel was the precursor to what later became his strip Funky Winkerbean that was launched in 1972. In 1979 Tom created […]