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85411 Paulflora

It is named after Paul Flora, an Italian-Austrian caricaturist, graphic artist, and illustrator of the 20th and 21st centuries.

A Peep into the Past

A Peep into the Past is a 1923 unauthorized and privately printed essay on Oscar Wilde by caricaturist and parodist Max Beerbohm.

Al Hirschfeld Theatre

On June 21, 2003, it was renamed the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in honor of the caricaturist famous for his drawings of Broadway celebrities, and reopened on November 23, 2003, with a revival of the musical Wonderful Town.

Alexander George Gurney

Alexander George "Alex" Gurney (15 March 1902 – 4 December 1955) was an Australian artist, caricaturist, and cartoonist born at Pasley House, Stoke, Devonport (now Stoke, Plymouth), England.

Arotxa

Rodolfo Arotxarena (Montevideo, September 7, 1958), better known for his artistic name Arotxa, is a Uruguayan caricaturist.

Bernardo Marques

Bernardo Loureiro Marques (Silves, 1898 - Lisbon, 1962), was a Portuguese painter, illustrator, graphic artist and caricaturist.

Carl Reinhardt

Carl August Reinhardt (also referred to as Karl Reinhardt; born 25. April 1818 in Leipzig, Germany; died 11. August 1877 in Radebeul, Germany) was a German author, painter, graphic artist, and caricaturist.

Carlo Pellegrini

It is not recorded how Pellegrini met Thomas Bowles, the owner of Vanity Fair magazine, but he quickly found himself employed by that publication and became its first caricaturist, originally signing his work as 'Singe' and later, and more famously, as 'Ape' (Italian for Bee).

Coia

Emilio Coia (born 1911), artist and widely published caricaturist from Glasgow

David Ossipovitch Widhopff

David Ossipovitch Widhopff (Russian - Давид Осипович Видгоф) (1867, Odessa - 1933, Saint-Clair-sur-Epte) was a Russian and French painter, caricaturist and poster artist.

Francisco González

Francisco González Gómez (1918–1990), Spanish caricaturist, painter and sculptor

François Lejeune

Jean Effel (1908–1982, real name François Lejeune), French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist

Galo Galecio

Galo Galecio Taranto (Vinces, June 1, 1906 - Quito, April 14, 1993) was a renowned Ecuadorian painter, sculptor, caricaturist, and printmaker.

George Cruickshank

George Cruikshank (1792–1878), British caricaturist and illustrator

Glynis

Glynis Sweeny (born 1962), American illustrator and caricaturist

Guillermo Divito

José Antonio Guillermo Divito, also known simply as Divito (Buenos Aires, July 16, 1914 - Lajes, Brazil, July 5, 1969) was an illustrator, cartoonist, caricaturist and editor who, through his comic illustrations and humor had great influence in the decades from 1940 to 1960.

Gustave-Henri Jossot

Gustave-Henri Jossot, also known as Abdul Karim Jossot (Dijon, France, April 16, 1866 – Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, April 7, 1951), was a French caricaturist, illustrator, poster designer, Orientalist painter, writer and thinker.

Hannes Hegen

Hannes Hegen (real name Johannes Eduard Hegenbarth, born 16 May 1925 in Böhmisch Kamnitz, now Česká Kamenice) is a German illustrator and caricaturist and is most famous for creating the East German comic book Mosaik and its original protagonists, the Digedags.

Henfil

Henrique de Souza Filho (5 February 1944 – 4 January 1988), commonly known as Henfil, was a Brazilian cartoonist, caricaturist, journalist and writer, born in Ribeirão das Neves, Minas Gerais.

James William Carling

When in America, James supported himself as a sidewalk artist and Vaudeville caricaturist before devoting his talents to illustrating the poem "The Raven".

Josef Benedikt Engl

Josef Benedikt Engl (1867—1907), also known as J.B. Engl, was a German caricaturist and illustrator known for his work for the journal Simplicissimus.

Joshua Kirby Baldrey

Among his best works are: The Finding of Moses, after Salvator Rosa, 1785; Diana in a Landscape, after Carlo Maratti; Lady Rawdon, after Reynolds, 1783; and some subjects after Penny and Bunbury.

Leadenhall Press

In addition to Joseph Crawhall, other artists who illustrated Leadenhall Press books included Randolph Caldecott, Georgie Gaskin, Tristram Ellis, William Luker Jr., and Punch cartoonists Phil May, Charles Keene and Linley Sambourne.

Leonetto Cappiello

Cappiello started his career as a caricaturist illustrating in journals like Le Rire, Le Cri de Paris, Le Sourire, L'Assiette au Beurre, La Baionnette, Femina, and others.

Lyonel

Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956), German-American painter and caricaturist

Mary Anne Clarke

Her daughter, born of her marriage to Clarke, married Louis-Mathurin Busson du Maurier and was the mother of the caricaturist George du Maurier (1834–96) and the great-grandmother of the novelist Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), who wrote a book about her (Mary Anne).

Salih Memecan

Salih Memecan (September 2, 1952 - Giresun) is a Turkish editorial caricaturist and cartoonist.

The Last Nightingale

The cover artwork was done by British cartoonist and caricaturist Ralph Steadman.

Toño Salazar

During World War II he went to Buenos Aires where he was employed as an illustrator and caricaturist at the socialist weekly magazine Argentina Libre.

Umberto Brunelleschi

He worked for Le Rire as a caricaturist (often under the pseudonym's Aroun-al-Raxid or Aron-al-Rascid) and was a contributor to many of the deluxe French fashion publications including Journal des Dames et Des Modes, La Vie Parisienne, Gazette du Bon Ton and Les Feuillets d'Art.

William Ellis Green

Green continued working as a caricaturist and illustrator with his work appearing in cricket books by Max Walker, on stamps and in children's books.

William Henry Traill

Having handed over the editorship to Archibald, Traill in 1883 went to America and engaged Livingston Hopkins as a comic draughtsman, and about two years later travelled to England and engaged Phil May for similar work.


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