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2005 Will Eisner, American Cartoonist

2004 Syd Hoff, cartoonist/children's book illustrator, The New Yorker, dies at 91

2003 William Steig, cartoonist/writer, New Yorker, dies at 95

2003 Bill Mauldin, cartoonist, Willie and Joe, dies at 81

2003 Al Hirschfeld, Broadway cartoonist, dies at 99

2002 Dave Berg, cartoonist, Mad, dies at 81

2001 Herblock, political cartoonist, The Washington Post, dies at 91

2001 Charles Templeton, Canadian Cartoonist

2001 Hank Ketcham, cartoonist, creator of Dennis the Menace, dies at 81

2001 Herbert Lawrence Block, American Cartoonist

2000 Carl Barks, cartoonist, Donald Duck, dies at 99

2000 Joe Mayhew, cartoonist/reviewer, Washington Post Book World, dies at 57

2000 Jeff MacNelly, cartoonist, Shoe, dies at 52

2000 Charles M. Schulz, cartoonist, Peanuts, dies at 77

2000 Don Martin, Mad cartoonist, dies at 68

2000 Marc Davis, Disney cartoonist, designed Disney's Pirates of the Carribean ride, dies at 86

1999 Saul Steinberg, cartoonist/modern artist, A View of the World from Manhattan, dies at 84

1997 Bill Rotsler, cartoonist/writer, dies of cancer at 62

1997 Edward Barker, cartoonist, dies at 46

1997 James Friell, political cartoonist, dies at 84

1997 Andre Franquin, cartoonist, dies at 72

1996 William George Rushton, actor (TW3)/author/cartoonist, dies at 59

1996 William John Raff Hooper, cartoonist, dies at 80

1996 Barry Appleby, cartoonist, dies at 86

1995 Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip

1995 Oliver Wendell Harrington, cartoonist, dies at 83

1995 Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter, dies at 83

1995 Carl Ronald Giles, cartoonist, dies at 78

1995 Charles Martin, cartoonist, dies at 85

1995 John Halas, Hungarian/US cartoonist (Animal Farm), dies at 81

1995 George Price, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 93

1995 Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson started in 1980

1994 Forest Cowles Bud Forrest Sagendorf, cartoonist, dies at 79

1994 Piet van Elk, cartoonist, dies at 74

1994 Lucebert [J Swaanswijk], poet/cartoonist (PC Hooft 1967), dies at 69

1994 Walter Lantz, U.S. cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 93

1994 Jack Kirby, cartoonist and co-creator X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Capt America, Fantastic Four, and Thor, dies at 76

1993 Peter De Vries, cartoonist (New Yorker), dies at 83

1993 Vincent T Hamlin, cartoonist (Alley Oop), dies at 93

1992 Pierre Culliford [Peyo], Belgian cartoonist (Smurfs), dies at 64

1992 Rudolf Ising, cartoonist (Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies), dies at 88

1992 Daan van Driel, Dutch cartoonist/WWII resist fighter (Trouw), dies

1992 Martin Engelman, Dutch cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies

1992 Hans G Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (Eric the Viking), dies at 70

1991 Vaughn Shoemaker, U.S. cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies

1991 Ed Dodd, cartoonist (Mark Trail), dies at 88

1991 Douglas L Mays, cartoonist (Punch), dies

1990 Willy Vandersteen, Flemish cartoonist (Suske and Wiske), dies

1990 Keith Haring, artist/cartoonist (brilliant baby), dies of AIDs at 31

1989 Jay Ward, cartoonist (Rocky and his Friends), dies at 79

1989 Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi and Lois, Hagar the Horrible), dies at 71

1988 Charles Addams, cartoonist (Addams Family), dies of heart attack at 76

1988 Milton A Caniff, U.S. cartoonist (Terry and the Pirates), dies at 81

1986 Henry Moore, English sculptor/cartoonist, dies at 88

1985 Chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy), dies at 84

1983 Herge, [Georges Remi], Belgian cartoonist (Rin-Tin-Tin), dies at 75

1981 Eppo Doeve, Dutch graphic artist/cartoonist/painter, dies at 73

1979 Al Capp, U.S. cartoonist (Li'l Abner), dies at 70

1978 Joseph EA "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter, dies at 77

1976 Melle J Oldeboerrigter ("Melle"), painter/cartoonist, dies at 65

1974 Harry Hershfield, cartoonist (Can You Top This?), dies at 89

1973 Seth MacFarlane, American Cartoonist

1970 Rube Goldberg, U.S. cartoonist (Mike and Ike, Pulitzer 1948), dies at 87

1970 Jay Irving, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh), dies at 69

1970 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors and Sjimmie" strip

1967 Henri-Georges Adam, French painter/cartoonist/sculptor, dies at 63

1962 Anne C Veth, Dutch cartoonist/art critic, dies at 82

1960 Alison Bechdel, American Cartoonist

1960 BenoŚt van Innis, Belgian cartoonist/painter/cartoonist, New York Post

1960 Chester Brown, Canadian Cartoonist

1959 Bruce Bairnsfather, cartoonist, dies

1959 George Grosz, German cartoonist/painter (Ecce Homo), dies at 65

1958 John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 72

1958 Bill Watterson, American Cartoonist

1957 Brad Bird, American Cartoonist

1957 Ray Billingsley, comic strip cartoonist, Curtis

1957 Berke Breathed, cartoonist, Vegetarian, Bloom County, Outland

1957 Berkeley Breathed, American Cartoonist

1957 Scott Raymond Adams, born in Catskill, New York, cartoonist, Dilbert

1956 Dave Sim, Canadian Cartoonist

1956 Phil Foglio, American Cartoonist

1956 Lynda Barry, American Cartoonist

1954 Matt Groening, cartoonist, Life in Hell, Simpsons

1950 Cathy Guisewite, U.S. cartoonist, Cathy

1950 Gary Larson, cartoonist, Far Side

1950 Edward Barker, cartoonist

1949 Ropert L Ripley, cartoonist (Believe It or Not), dies at 55 in NY

1948 Garry Trudeau, political cartoonist, Doonesbury

1948 James FCS "Jim" Woude, cartoonist

1947 Jeff MacNelly, Puliter Prize-winning cartoonist, Shoe

1945 Jim Davis, cartoonist, Garfield

1944 Wouter R van Romondt, Dutch/Dutch Antillean cartoonist

1943 Robert Crumb, U.S., cartoonist, Father Time, Fritz Cat

1940 Dick Ket, painter/cartoonist, dies at 37

1940 Willem E Roelofs, painter/cartoonist, dies

1940 Johan C Braakensiek, Dutch political cartoonist, dies at 81

1939 George William Reed, astronomy writer/cartoonist, Dark Sky Legacy

1938 Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day

1937 William George Rushton, London, actor/author/cartoonist, TW3

1936 Ralph Steadman, British Cartoonist

1935 Pat Oliphant, Australia, cartoonist, 7 Pres: The Art of Oliphant

1934 Albert Funke Kuppes, political cartoonist, dies

1933 Bill Tidy, English cartoonist, Fosdyke Saga

1932 Harry Lammertink, [Yrrah], Dutch cartoonist, Vrij Netherland

1932 Paul Krassner, comic strip cartoonist, MAD Magazine, and founder, Yippies

1932 Jim Berry, cartoonist, Berry's World

1931 John-French Cantre, Flemish wood carver/painter/cartoonist, dies at 45

1931 Johnny Hart, cartoonist

1930 Jules Pascin, [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist, dies

1930 Rolf Harris, Australian/British cartoonist

1929 Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist (Simplicissimus), dies at 71

1929 U.S. cartoonist Elzie Segar creates "Popeye"

1929 Jules Feiffer, New York City, cartoonist, Passionella, /author, Little Murders

1928 Raoul Servais, Belgian cartoonist/president, l'ASIFA

1927 Raymond Jackson, [Jaki], British cartoonist

1927 Floris H Verster, Dutch painter/cartoonist/etcher, dies at 65

1926 Pierre "Peyo" Culliford, Brussels Belgium, cartoonist, Smurfs

1926 Tom Ryan, comic strip cartoonist, Tumbleweeds

1925 Leonard Starr, comic strip cartoonist, Little Orphan Annie

1924 Lucebert, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist, Boozz, PC Hooft prize 1967

1924 Paul Conrad, comic strip cartoonist, LA Times

1924 Wally Fawkes, cartoonist/jazz clarinettist

1924 Jack T. Chick, American Cartoonist

1924 Jack Chick, American Cartoonist

1924 Andre Franquin, cartoonist

1923 Mort Walker, cartoonist, Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois

1923 Paul F Conrad, born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, cartoonist, Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84

1922 Charles M Schulz, born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, cartoonist, Peanuts

1922 Charles Schulz, Cartoonist

1921 Hans G Kresse, Dutch cartoonist, Eric the Viking

1921 Bill Mauldin, cartoonist, WW II Army grunts

1921 William Henry Mauldin, New Mexico, political cartoonist, Pulitzer-1945, 59

1921 Allan Jaffee, comic strip cartoonist/illustrator, MAD Magazine

1920 Aad de Haas, Dutch religious painter/graphic artist/cartoonist

1920 Jay Ward, cartoonist, Rocky and his Friends, Bullwinkle

1920 Hank Ketcham, cartoonist, Dennis the Menace

1918 Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist (Het Volk), dies at 41

1918 Gustav Klimt, Austrian painter/cartoonist, dies at 55

1917 Jack Kirby, cartoonist and co-creator X-Men, Incredible Hulk, Capt America, Fantastic Four, and Thor

1917 Dik Browne, cartoonist, Hi and Lois, Hagar the Horrible

1917 Reg Smyth, English cartoonist, Andy Capp

1917 Will Eisner, American Cartoonist

1916 Carl Ronald Giles, cartoonist

1916 William John Raff Hooper, cartoonist

1915 Forest Sagendorf, cartoonist

1915 Walter Crane, English painter/cartoonist/illustrator, dies at 69

1915 Charles Templeton, Canadian Cartoonist

1914 Cees [Cornelis A B] Bantzinger, Dutch cartoonist/illustrator

1914 Saul Steinberg, Romania, cartoonist/illustrator, New Yorker

1914 David Langdon, cartoonist/illustrator

1913 Walt Kelly, cartoonist, creator, Pogo

1913 Wolfgang Schulze, [Wols], German cartoonist/painter

1913 Willy Vandersteen, Belgian cartoonist, Suske and Wiske

1912 Wessel Couzijn, sculptor/cartoonist, Auschwitz-monument

1912 Marten Toonder, writer/cartoonist, Mr Bommel

1912 James Friell, political cartoonist

1912 Oliver Wendell Harrington, cartoonist

1912 Charles Addams, cartoonist, New Yorker, Addams Family

1911 Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter

1910 Charles Martin, cartoonist

1909 Christopher KH de Neree tot Babberich, cartoonist, dies at 29

1909 Herblock, [Herbert L Block], Roosevelt, Utah, political cartoonist

1909 Al Capp, [Alfred Gerald Caplin], New Haven, Connecticut, cartoonist, Li'l Abner

1909 Barry Appleby, cartoonist

1909 Ted Rall, American Cartoonist

1909 Scott McCloud, American Cartoonist

1909 Herbert Lawrence Block, American Cartoonist

1908 Osbert Lancaster, English cartoonist/author, Daily Express

1908 Melle J Oldeboerrigter, [Melle], Dutch painter/cartoonist

1907 Eppo Doeve, Dutch cartoonist/painter

1907 Herge, [Georges Remi], Belgian cartoonist, Kuifje

1907 Milton Caniff, Hillsboro Ohio, Dutch cartoonist, Terry and Pirates

1904 Peter Arno, New York City, cartoonist, New Yorker

1903 Al Hirschfeld, American Cartoonist

1902 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist, dies

1902 Dick Ket, Dutch painter/cartoonist

1901 Walt Disney, born in Chicago, animator, Mickey Mouse

1901 George Price, cartoonist

1901 Chic Young, cartoonist, Blondie

1900 Chester Gould, cartoonist, Dick Tracy

1900 Jay Irving, New York City, cartoonist, Draw Me a Laugh

1900 Douglas L. Mays, cartoonist, Punch

1900 Joseph E A "Jo" Spier, Dutch cartoonist/water color painter

1900 Kees Verwey, painter/water colors painter/cartoonist

1897 Hendrik J Valk, painter/cartoonist/graphic artist

1893 Ropert L Ripley, Santa Rosa California, cartoonist, Believe It or Not

1892 Harold Foster, cartoonist, created "Prince Valiant"

1891 Jean Galtier-Boissiere, French writer/cartoonist/journalist

1891 David Low, British Cartoonist

1888 Gluyas Williams, cartoonist, Fellows Citizen

1887 Rie Cramer, [Marie Holman], Dutch cartoonist/author

1887 H M Bateman, Sutton Forest NSW, cartoonist

1886 John C Poortenaar, painter/etcher/cartoonist

1886 John-French Cantre, Flemish wood carver/painter/cartoonist

1886 Felix Timmermans, Flemish writer/painter/cartoonist, Pallieter

1886 Arthur Mailey, cricketer, great Aussie leg-spinner and cartoonist

1885 Harry Hershfield, Cedar Rapids Iowa, cartoonist, Can You Top This?

1885 Jules Pascin, [Julius Pincas], Bulgarian/US painter/cartoonist

1884 Andre Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter/cartoonist

1883 Rube Goldberg, cartoonist, who made the easy outrageously difficult

1883 Frank O King, Cashton Wisconsin, cartoonist, Gasoline Alley

1880 Christopher K H de Neree tot Babberich, cartoonist

1880 Anne C. Veth, Dutch cartoonist and art critic

1879 Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator, Candide

1877 Albert P Hahn, Dutch political cartoonist, People/Nutcracker

1874 Willem E. Roelofs, Dutch painter/cartoonist

1872 William Heath Robinson, England, illustrator/cartoonist, Don Quixote

1871 Lyonel C. A. Feininger, U.S. cartoonist/painter

1870 John McClutcheon, cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize-1931

1867 Frank Brangwyn, Wales, painter/muralist/cartoonist, Willam Morris

1864 Phil May, Wortley Yorkshire, cartoonist

1861 Floris H Verster, [van Wulverhorst], painter/cartoonist/etcher

1858 Johan C Braakensiek, political cartoonist, Green Amsterdammer

1858 Heinrich Zille, German cartoonist, Cheerful Blatter, Simplicissimus

1857 Frederick Opper, cartoonist, Maud, Alphonse and Gaston

1850 J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/writer, dies at 85

1840 Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of late 1800s America

1839 Joseph A Koch, Aust painter/cartoonist/etcher/illustrator, dies at 70

1828 Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Spanish painter/cartoonist, dies at 82

1825 Rodolphe Bresdin, French cartoonist/lithographer, Le Bon Samaritain

1820 Nadar, [Felix Tournachon], French painter, cartoonist, author and ballonist

1820 John Tenniel, England, cartoonist/illustrator, Alice in Wonderland

1818 Carl P Fohr, German painter/cartoonist, dies at 22

1816 Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/cartoonist/art collector, dies at 74

1815 Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 58

1812 Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund), dies at 23

1793 Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 44

1791 W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist

1788 Franz Pforr, German painter and cartoonist, Lukasbund

1781 John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist, dies at 57

1779 Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist, dies at 27

1777 Alexander Orlowski, Polish painter, cartoonist and graphic artist

1770 Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist, dies at 62

1768 Giovanni AC Canaletto, Italian painter/cartoonist (Rialto), dies at 70

1764 J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/lithographer

1759 Cornelis Pronk, portrait painter/cartoonist, dies at 67

1756 Jacob van Strij, Dutch cartoonist/graphic artist

1756 Thomas Rowlandson, English painter/cartoonist/etcher

1751 Henry Kobell, Dutch painter/cartoonist

1748 Isaac Ouwater, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist

1734 Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist, dies at 44

1729 Paul C la Fargue, cartoonist/painter

1724 John Ekels, the Old, Amsterdam painter/cartoonist

1708 Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist, dies at 76

1708 Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist

1700 Lambert Doomer, painter/cartoonist, dies at about 77

1697 Constantine Huygens Jr, Poet/painter/cartoonist, buried

1691 Cornelis Pronk, Dutch portrait painter/cartoonist

1690 Noel-Nicolas Coypel, French painter/cartoonist

1688 Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, dies at 89

1677 Wallerand Vaillant, painter/engraver/etcher/cartoonist, dies at 54

1677 Wenzel Hollar, Bohemia cartoonist/etcher, dies at about 69

1677 Aernout "Aert" van der Neer, cartoonist/landscape painter, dies at 73

1651 Abraham C Bloemaert, painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies at 86

1635 Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42

1631 Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist

1628 Constantine Huygens, Jr., Dutch poet, painter and cartoonist

1619 Hubertus Quellinus, [Quellien], Flemish cartoonist/copper plate

1617 Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch painter/cartoonist/engraver, dies

1612 Jodocus Hondius, Flemish cartoonist/mathematician, dies at 48

1610 Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, buried at 32

1598 Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter, baptized

1591 Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist, dies at 51

1584 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist/playwright, dies at 44

1578 Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized

1564 Abraham C Bloemaert, painter/cartoonist/engraver

1539 Jost/Jobst/Jodocus Amman, Swiss cartoonist/graphic artist/illustrator

1539 Tobias Stimmer, Swiss painter/cartoonist, Comedia



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