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Film writer, Musical Artist, Person, Musical Group Member, TV Writer, Author, Comic Strip Creator, Film actor, TV Actor, Comic Book Writer, Influence Node, Fictional Character Creator, Award WinnerAlan Moore (born November 18, 1953 in Northampton) is an English writer most famous for his influential work in comics, including the acclaimed graphic novel Watchmen, V for Vendetta and From Hell. He has also written a novel, Voice of the Fire, and performs "workings"...
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Person, Deceased Person, Comic Strip Creator, Film writerAl Capp (September 28, 1909 – November 5, 1979) was an American cartoonist best known for the satiric comic strip, Li'l Abner. He also wrote the comic strips Abbie and Slats and Long Sam. He won the 1947 National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for the comic strip Li'l...
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Person, Comic Strip Creator, Fictional Character CreatorWilliam B. "Bill" Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is an American cartoonist, and the author of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes and select Target: The Political Cartoon Quarterly Magazine drawings. Watterson was born in Washington, D.C., where his father, James G....
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Comic Strip Creator, PersonBill Holbrook is a prolific American comic strip & webcomic writer and artist. He is a 1980 graduate of Auburn University. Holbrook draws three strips: He says that every week he writes the story line for the next three weeks for one of his strips and draws the...
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Film director, Film writer, Film producer, Musical Artist, Person, Musical Group Member, TV Program Creator, Songwriter, Record Producer, Comic Strip Creator, Film music contributor, Film cinematographer, Film editor, TV Writer, Influence Node, Award Nominee, Lyricist, ComposerDavid Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is a filmmaker, painter, composer, video artist, and performance artist from the United States . Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), and...
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Person, Film writer, Comic Strip Creator, TV Program Creator, TV WriterGarretson Beekman Trudeau (born July 21, 1948, in New York City) is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip. Garry Trudeau is the great-grandson of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, who created facilities for the treatment of pulmonary...
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Person, Deceased Person, Comic Strip Creator, Visual ArtistLyonel Charles Feininger (July 17 1871 – January 13 1956); was a German-American painter and caricaturist. Feininger was born to parents of German descent and grew up in New York City. He moved to Berlin, in 1887, to study at the Königliche Akademie Berlin under...
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Person, Film writer, Film producer, TV Program Creator, Author, Comic Strip Creator, Fictional Character Creator, TV Writer, TV Actor, Musical ArtistMatthew Abram Groening ( -ning) (born February 15 1954) is an American cartoonist, television producer and writer from Portland, Oregon, best known as the creator of The Simpsons. He is also the creator of Futurama and the author of the weekly comic strip Life in Hell....
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Person, TV Writer, Author, Comic Strip Creator, Fictional Character Creator, TV Program Creator, Comic Strip ArtistScott Raymond Adams (born June 8, 1957) is the creator of the Dilbert comic strip and the author of several business commentaries, social satire, and experimental philosophy books. Scott Adams was born in Windham, New York in 1957 and received his Bachelor's degree...
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Person, Film writer, Deceased Person, Comic Strip Creator, Comic Strip Artist, Fictional Character CreatorCharles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000) was a 20th-century American cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts comic strip. Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and grew up in Saint Paul He was the only child of Carl Schulz...
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Person, Deceased Person, Comic Strip Creator, AuthorTove Marika Jansson (; August 9, 1914 – June 27, 2001) was a Finnish novelist, painter, illustrator and comic strip author. She was the author of, among other works, the Moomin books. Tove Jansson was born and died in Helsinki, Finland, and was the daughter of the...
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Person, Film writer, Deceased Person, Comic Strip CreatorChester Gould (November 20,1900 – May 11, 1985) was a U.S. cartoonist and the creator of the Dick Tracy comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977. Gould was known for his use of colorful, often monstrous, villain. Chester Gould was born and raised in...
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Person, Deceased Person, Comic Strip CreatorArthur Floyd Gottfredson (May 5, 1905—July 22, 1986) was an American cartoonist best known for his defining work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip. He has probably had the same impact on the Mickey Mouse comics as Carl Barks had on the Donald Duck comics. Two decades...
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Person, Deceased Person, Comic Strip CreatorCharles Alfred Taliaferro (August 29, 1905 - February 3, 1969) known simply as Al Taliaferro was a Disney comics artist who used to produce Disney comic strip for King Features Syndicate. Many of his strips were written by Bob Karp. He is best-known for his work on...
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Person, Deceased Person, Comic Strip CreatorTed Osborne (February 6, 1900 or 1901–March 12, 1968) was an American writer of comics, radio shows and animated films, remembered for his contributions to the creation and refinement, during the 1930s, of Walt Disney cartoon characters. Ted Osborne spent a decade ...
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Person, Film director, Film actor, Film writer, Deceased Person, Comic Strip CreatorWinsor McCay (September 26 1867(?) – July 26 1934) was an American cartoonist and animator. A prolific artist, McCay's pioneering early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries, and set a standard followed by Walt Disney and others in later decades....
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Person, Comic Strip CreatorPete Abrams (born August 4, 1970) is the writer and illustrator of the online comic strip Sluggy Freelance. Pete Abrams went to Joe Kubert School of Graphic Design but was unable to get a job in the comics industry after school. Instead he got a job as a web designer...
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Person, Comic Strip CreatorDan Perkins (born 5 April 1961 in Wichita, Kansas) is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip This Modern World, which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately...
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Person, Author, Comic Strip CreatorGary Larson (b. August 14 1950) is the creator of The Far Side, a single-panel comic strip which appeared in many newspapers for fourteen years until Larson's retirement on January 1, 1995. Gary Larson was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. His parents were Vern,...
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Person, Deceased Person, Comic Strip CreatorHarold ("Hal") Rudolf Foster (August 18, 1892 in Halifax, Nova Scotia – July 25, 1982) was a Canadian-American cartoonist most famous as the creator of the comic strip Prince Valiant. He worked as a staff artist for the Hudson's Bay Company and moved to Chicago in 1919...
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Person, Film writer, Author, Comic Strip Creator, Fictional Character Creator, TV Program CreatorJames Robert "Jim" Davis (born July 28, 1945), is an American cartoonist who created the popular comic strip Garfield. Other comics that he has worked on include Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, and a strip about Mr. Potato Head. He has written Emmy-award winning TV specials...
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Person, Film actor, Deceased Person, Comic Strip Creator, TV ActorEdgar John Bergen (February 16 1903 – September 30 1978) was an Academy Award-winning American actor and radio performer, best known as a ventriloquist. Bergen was born Edgar John Bergen in Chicago, Illinois, to a Swedish family and grew up in Decatur, Michigan. He...
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Person, Deceased Person, Comic Strip CreatorAndré Franquin (January 3, 1924 – January 5, 1997) was an influential Belgian cartoonist, whose best known comic strip creations are Gaston and Marsupilami, created while he worked on the Spirou et Fantasio comic strip from 1947 to 1969, during a period seen by many as...
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Person, Author, Comic Strip CreatorAlison Bechdel (born September 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist. Originally best known for the long-running comic strip Dykes To Watch Out For, in 2006 she became a best-selling and critically acclaimed author with her autobiographical graphic memoir Fun Home. ...
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Person, Comic Strip CreatorLynn Johnston CM OM (born May 28, 1947) is a Canadian cartoonist, well known for her comic strip For Better or For Worse, and was the first female cartoonist to win the Reuben Award. Born Lynn Ridgway in Collingwood, Ontario, she was raised in North Vancouver,...
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Person, Comic Strip CreatorPatrick McDonnell (born March 17, 1956) is the creator of the daily comic strip Mutts. In 1994 McDonnell created the comic strip MUTTS which now appears in over 700 newspapers and 20 countries. MUTTS has been described by Peanuts creator Charles Schulz as "one of...
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Person, Comic Strip CreatorAddison Morton Walker (born September 3, 1923 in El Dorado, Kansas), more popularly known as Mort Walker, is an American comic artist, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954. Born in El Dorado, Kansas, he grew...
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Person, Comic Strip CreatorJim Meddick (born August 1961) is an American cartoonist. While attending Washington University, he won the Chicago Tribune Student Cartoonist Contest for a strip named Paperback Writer. After graduating, in 1983 he became a political cartoonist. In 1985, he created...
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Person, Author, Comic Strip Creator, Fictional Character CreatorGuy Berkeley "Berke" Breathed (born June 21, 1957) is an American cartoonist, children's book author/illustrator, director, and screenwriter, best known for Bloom County, a 1980s cartoon-comic strip which dealt with socio-political issues as seen through the eyes of...
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Person, Deceased Person, Comic Strip CreatorGeorge Joseph Herriman (August 22, 1880 – April 25, 1944) was an American cartoonist, best known for his comic strip Krazy Kat. George Herriman was born in a light-skinned, Creole African-American family in New Orleans, Louisiana. Both of his parents were listed as ...
