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R. K. Laxman (ராசிபுரம் கிருஷ்ணசுவாமி லட்சுமண்)
R. K. Laxman (Rasipuram Krishnaswamy Laxman, 1921-2015), Indian political cartoonist of The Times of India, creator of the iconic silent 'Common Man' in the daily pocket cartoon 'You Said It'; Padma Vibhushan and Ramon Magsaysay laureate.
Ralph Steadman
Ralph Steadman (born 1936) is a British illustrator and caricaturist, visual partner of Hunter S. Thompson and defining artist of gonzo journalism, known for ink-splattered satire, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Alice in Wonderland, and Gonzovation books.
Rama Duwaji
Rama Duwaji, also Rama Sawaf Duwaji, is a Syrian-American animator, illustrator, and ceramist born in Houston in 1997, with work in The New Yorker and the Washington Post, and First Lady of New York City as Zohran Mamdani's wife.
Ramisha Sattar
Ramisha Sattar, born 1999 in Lincoln, Nebraska, is a Pakistani American creative director and designer based in LA, New York, and Dallas; creative director for Chappell Roan and art director of the CHANI astrology app.
Rat Fink
Rat Fink is a grotesque green cartoon mouse created in the late 1950s by Ed "Big Daddy" Roth as a deliberately anti-establishment answer to Mickey Mouse.
Rilakkuma (リラックマ)
Rilakkuma (リラックマ) is a lounging costume bear character created by San-X, debuting September 2003, living at office worker Kaoru's home with Korilakkuma and Kiiroitori; known for Rilakkuma Stores, Production I.G anime, and broad licensing.
Roger Dean (artist)
Roger Dean (born 1944), English artist and designer famous for Yes and Asia album covers, the Osibisa winged elephant, logos for Virgin Records, Psygnosis and Tetris, and Dragons' Dream publishing.
Rube Goldberg
Rube Goldberg (Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg, 1883–1970), American Pulitzer-winning cartoonist and mining-engineering graduate whose invention cartoons of absurdly complicated chain-reaction machines made his name a dictionary adjective.
Rupert Bear
Rupert Bear, also Rupert the Bear, is an English children's comic strip bear created by Mary Tourtel, first appearing in the Daily Express on 8 November 1920, set in Nutwood, famous for its annuals and text-comic format.
Scott Campbell (tattoo artist)
Scott Campbell, Louisiana-born American tattoo artist and fine artist, founder of Saved Tattoo in Williamsburg, Brooklyn; clients include Marc Jacobs and Heath Ledger; known for currency sculptures, Whole Glory, Beboe. Not the illustrator Scott C., J. Scott Campbell, or the urologist.
Seedfeeder
Seedfeeder is the pseudonym of an anonymous illustrator who contributed 48 sexually explicit drawings to Wikipedia from 2008 to 2012, styled after airline safety pamphlets; praised by Gawker and Artnet, criticized as racist or sexist, he retired in June 2012.
Sergio Aragonés
Sergio Aragonés (Sergio Aragonés Domenech), Spanish-born Mexican cartoonist born 1937, famous for Mad magazine marginals and co-creating Groo the Wanderer; Eisner, Reuben, and Harvey Award winner.
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
Sheena, Queen of the Jungle: jungle-adventure heroine created by Will Eisner and Jerry Iger, debuted in Wags/Jumbo Comics (1937-38), first female-titled comic book (Fiction House, 1942-52), later a 1955-56 TV series with Irish McCalla, the 1984 flop film with Tanya Roberts, and a 2000-2002 series with Gena Lee Nolin.
Sidney Paget
Sidney Paget (Sidney Edward Paget, 1860-1908), British illustrator for The Strand Magazine whose 356 Sherlock Holmes drawings, deerstalker and Inverness cape, defined the detective's iconic image.
Simon Stålenhag
Simon Stålenhag (born 1984) is a Swedish artist and author of the narrative art books Tales from the Loop, Things from the Flood, and The Electric State, self-taught digital paintings of alternate-history Sweden adapted into a 2020 Amazon series and 2025 Netflix film.
Spy vs. Spy
Spy vs. Spy is Mad magazine's wordless comic strip, created by Cuban exile cartoonist Antonio Prohias and debuting in Mad #60 (January 1961), pitting the Black Spy against the White Spy; drawn by Peter Kuper since 1997.
Stanley Donwood
Stanley Donwood (Dan Rickwood, born 1968) is the English artist and writer behind nearly all Radiohead album artwork since The Bends (1995), working alongside Thom Yorke, his Exeter University collaborator, plus Glastonbury Festival art since 2002, two Grammys, Macfarlane book covers, and the 2025 Ashmolean retrospective.
Steve Ditko
Steve Ditko (1927–2018), American comic book artist and co-creator with Stan Lee of Marvel's Spider-Man and Doctor Strange; also created Mr A, The Question, the Creeper, Hawk and Dove, and Shade; famously reclusive, no interviews after 1968; his estate settled a 2023 Marvel copyright suit.
The Yellow Kid
The Yellow Kid, officially Mickey Dugan, was an 1890s comic character by R. F. Outcault, first in Pulitzer's New York World's Hogan's Alley (1895), then Hearst's Journal; the Pulitzer-Hearst fight over him produced the term yellow journalism and the first merchandised comic character.
Thomas Nast
Thomas Nast (1840-1902), German-born American editorial cartoonist at Harper's Weekly 1862-1886, called the Father of the American Cartoon; created the Republican elephant, Democratic donkey, Tammany tiger, and modern Santa Claus, and toppled Boss Tweed.
Tom of Finland
Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920–1991) was a Finnish artist whose homoerotic leather-and-uniform drawings, first published in 1957 in Physique Pictorial, shaped gay male aesthetics; his Los Angeles foundation preserves over 2,000 original works.
Tomi Ungerer
Tomi Ungerer, also known as Jean-Thomas Ungerer, was a French illustrator, cartoonist, and author from Strasbourg, known for over 140 books and a dedicated museum in 2007.
Tony Hart
Tony Hart (Norman Antony Hart, 1925–2009), English artist and BBC children's television presenter of Vision On, Take Hart, and Hartbeat, creator of The Gallery, designer of the Blue Peter badge logo, and host of the Plasticine character Morph.
Viz (comics)
Viz is a British adult comedy magazine founded in Newcastle in 1979 by Chris Donald, parodying children's comics with profane strips like the Fat Slags and Roger Mellie; it peaked at 1.2 million copies in 1991 and is now a monthly Metropolis Group title.
W. Heath Robinson
William Heath Robinson (1872-1944), English illustrator and cartoonist famed for absurdly elaborate contraption drawings; his surname entered the English language by 1912 and named a Bletchley Park codebreaking machine.
Walter Crane
Walter Crane (1845-1915), English artist and "father of the illustrated children's book," creator of color toy books with printer Edmund Evans, Arts and Crafts leader, and committed socialist illustrator.
Yoshitaka Amano (天野喜孝)
Yoshitaka Amano (天野喜孝, born 1952, Shizuoka) is a Japanese painter and character designer: Tatsunoko anime (Gatchaman, Time Bokan), Final Fantasy logos and art since 1987, Vampire Hunter D illustrations, and international fine-art exhibitions.