101 Cartoonists Everyone Should Know

This week, I have something special to share with you.  I’ve compiled a list of approximately 101 cartoonists out there that everyone should know and whose material that they should read.  I examined many forms: comic strips, graphic novels, superheroes, alternative, underground, manga, etc.

Before I give you the list, I should emphasize that this list is by no means comprehensive.  If a prestigious contributor to the field of comics is missing from here, it is not because of malice that I didn’t include them.  Listing every single cartoonist, both of extraordinary talent and significant contribution to the field of comics, would be a whole blog in itself.

I’m just going to give you the names.  It is up to you, loyal readers, to seek them out on the Internet and look at their work.  Open up another tab or window in your browser, enter their names into search engines like Google, Bing, or Hotbot, and look for them.  Who knows?  Maybe you’ll find something new to read or someone you want to inspire you.  But enough chit-chat.  Let’s get this list started.

  1. Herge
  2. Osamu Tezuka
  3. Scott McCloud
  4. Moebius
  5. Albert Uderzo
  6. Jack Kirby
  7. Charles Schulz
  8. Elzie Crisler Segar
  9. Robert Crumb
  10. Jack Davis
  11. Eichiro Oda
  12. Rumiko Takahashi
  13. Al Jaffee
  14. Kyle Baker
  15. Will Eisner
  16. Joost Swarte
  17. Bud Fisher
  18. George Herriman
  19. Charles Addams
  20. Steve Ditko
  21. John Buscema
  22. Frank Frazetta
  23. Walt Disney
  24. Carl Barks
  25. S. Clay Wilson
  26. Heinrich Kley
  27. Tom Hart
  28. Walt Kelly
  29. Jaime Hernandez
  30. Matt Madden
  31. William Hogarth
  32. Peyo
  33. Sergio Aragones
  34. Stan Sakai
  35. David Petersen
  36. Tom Bunk
  37. Rube Goldberg
  38. Spain Rodriguez
  39. Matt Groening
  40. Mike Judge
  41. Go Nagai
  42. Art Spiegelman
  43. Scott Adams
  44. Al Capp
  45. Chester Gould
  46. Bill Griffith
  47. Jim Davis
  48. Bil Keane
  49. Winsor McCay
  50. Bill Watterson
  51. Mort Drucker
  52. Dan DeCarlo
  53. Kim Deitch
  54. Harvey Kurtzman
  55. Jeff Smith
  56. Wally Wood
  57. Stan and Jan Berenstein
  58. Frank Miller
  59. Bob Kane
  60. Dave Sim
  61. Mike Mignola
  62. Dik Browne
  63. Ken Akamatsu
  64. Ernie Bushmiller
  65. Hiromu Arakawa
  66. CLAMP
  67. Masashi Kishimoto
  68. Mort Walker
  69. Jason Little
  70. Kenichi Sonoda
  71. Peter Madsen
  72. Naoko Takeuchi
  73. Peter Kuper
  74. Yoshihiro Tagashi
  75. Akira Toriyama
  76. Eric W. Schwartz
  77. Sal Amendola
  78. Jessica Abel
  79. Lynd Ward
  80. Richard Scarry
  81. William Blake
  82. Rodolphe Topffer
  83. Max Ernst
  84. Frans Masereel
  85. Dan Clowes
  86. Gustave Dore
  87. Gahan Wilson
  88. Doug Sneyd
  89. Chris Ware
  90. Yoshihiro Tatsumi
  91. Katsuhiro Otomo
  92. Gilbert Hernandez
  93. Kevin Eastman
  94. Peter Laird
  95. Gilbert Shelton
  96. Gary Panter
  97. Reed Waller
  98. Terry Gilliam
  99. Harvey Pekar
  100. Larry Welz
  101. Fred Perry
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I am a freelance artist and the creator of Sunnyville Stories, an independent slice-of-life comics series.
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2 Responses to 101 Cartoonists Everyone Should Know

  1. Pingback: 101 Fine Artists Everyone Should Know | Sunnyville Stories

  2. Whaaat? says:

    Alan Moore? Neil Gaiman? Dave McKean? Dave Gibbons?
    What happened to them?

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