List of illustrators
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Illustrator
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  • Salomon van Abbé
    Salomon van Abbé
    Salomon van Abbé , also known as Jack van Abbé or Jack Abbey, was an artist, etcher and illustrator of books and magazines....

     etcher and illustrator of books and magazines.
  • Edwin Austin Abbey
    Edwin Austin Abbey
    Edwin Austin Abbey was an American artist, illustrator, and painter. He flourished at the beginning of what is now referred to as the "golden age" of illustration, and is best known for his drawings and paintings of Shakespearean and Victorian subjects, as well as for his painting of Edward VII's...

     American artist, illustrator, and painter.
  • Elenore Abbott
    Elenore Abbott
    Elenore Abbott was an American book illustrator, scenic designer, and artist. Born Elenore Plaisted in Lincoln, Maine, she studied at several schools in Philadelphia and Paris...

     American book illustrator, scenic designer, and artist.
  • Abed Abdi
    Abed Abdi
    Abed Abdi is an Arab Israeli painter, graphic designer, sculpturer and lecturer of the arts.Abdi worked as a blacksmith and illustrated Arabic publications that appeared in Israel. After studying in Dresden, Abdi became the first Palestinian to build monumental art on native soil...

     Israeli Palestinian illustrator, painter, graphic designer and sculptor
  • Steve Adams
    Steve Adams (illustrator)
    Steve Adams is a Canadian illustrator.After his studies in graphic design, Steve began his collaboration with various clients such as The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, Citigroup, Washington Post, American Lawyer, Chicago Tribune, CA Magazine, The Globe & Mail, La Presse, Barefoot...

     Canadian illustrator.
  • Dan Adkins
    Dan Adkins
    Dan Adkins is an American illustrator who worked mainly for comic books and science-fiction magazines.-Early life and career:...

     American illustrator of comic books and science-fiction magazines.
  • Thomas B. Allen
    Thomas B. Allen
    Thomas B. Allen was an American painter and illustrator known for a moody and expressionist style that pushed the boundaries of commercial art in the 1950s and 60s...

     American painter and illustrator.
  • Chris van Allsburg
    Chris Van Allsburg
    Chris Van Allsburg is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He twice won the Caldecott Medal, for Jumanji and The Polar Express , both of which he wrote and illustrated, and both of which were later adapted into successful motion pictures...

     American author and illustrator of children's books.
  • Yoshitaka Amano
    Yoshitaka Amano
    is a Japanese artist. He began his career as an animator and has become known for his illustrations for the anime Vampire Hunter D and for his character designs, image illustrations and title logo designs for the Final Fantasy video game series developed by Square Enix . His influences include...

     Japanese artist known for his illustrations for Vampire Hunter D
  • Victor Ambrus
    Victor Ambrus
    Victor Ambrus , is an illustrator best known for his regular appearances on the Channel 4 archaeology television series Time Team, where he visualises how the sites being excavated may have once looked...

     Archaeological illustrator.
  • Raymond Ameijide
    Raymond Ameijide
    Raymond Ameijide was an American illustrator and graphic designer. He served with the U.S...

     American illustrator and graphic designer.
  • Anne Anderson Scottish children's book illustrator.
  • Peter Arno
    Peter Arno
    Peter Arno was a U.S. cartoonist.-Biography:Born Curtis Arnoux Peters, Jr. in New York, New York, and educated at the Hotchkiss School and Yale University, his cartoons were published in The New Yorker from 1925–1968. They often depicted a cross-section of New York society from the 1920s through...

     American cartoonist.
  • Hans Arnold
    Hans Arnold
    Hans Arnold was an artist, born in Switzerland, who lived and worked in Sweden from 1947 until his death in 2010. He illustrated many magazines and books. He is perhaps best known for his illustrations for the Bland tomtar och troll books, and for the cover he did for the ABBA Greatest Hits...

  • James Arnold
    James Arnold (author & artist)
    James Arnold was an English commercial artist who developed a passion for the wagons that he saw on his cycling tours of the countryside in the pre- and post-War years...

  • Russell Ayto
    Russell Ayto
    Richard Ayto is an award-winning children's book illustrator and author. He was born in Chichester in 1960 and grew up in Kidlington, Oxfordshire. After school he worked in the Histopathology Department of the John Radcliffe Hospital before studying at Oxford Polytechnic and Exeter College, Exeter...


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  • Ken Bald
    Ken Bald
    Kenneth Bruce Bald is an American illustrator and comic book artist best known for the Judd Saxon, Dr. Kildare and Dark Shadows newspaper comic strips. Due to contractual obligations, he is credited as "K...

  • Jan Balet
    Jan Balet
    Jan Balet , was a famous German/US-American painter, graphic artist and illustrator. Affected by the style naive art he worked particularly as a graphic artist and as an Illustrator of children's books. Besides this he painted pictures in the style of naive art...

  • Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
    Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
    Cyrus Leroy Baldridge was an artist, illustrator, author and adventurer. He was born to a wealthy ne’er-do-well and Eliza Burgdorf Baldridge, in Alton, New York in 1889. When very young, his mother left his abusive father and began a nomadic life as a traveling sales person, selling kitchen...

  • Asun Balzola
    Asun Balzola
    Asunción Balzola Elorza , better known as Asun Balzola, was a Spanish autodidact illustrator, writer and translator. After partially recovering from a severe car crash, she studied painting and graphic arts at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid...

  • Istvan Banyai
    Istvan Banyai
    Istvan Banyai received his BFA from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest and gained prominence as a commercial illustrator and animator in the mid-1980s when he emigrated to the United States....

  • George Barbier
    George Barbier
    George Barbier was one of the great French illustrators of the early 20th century. Born in Nantes, France on October 10, 1882, Barbier was 29 years old when he mounted his first exhibition in 1911 and was subsequently swept to the forefront of his profession with commissions to design theatre and...

  • Carl Barks
    Carl Barks
    Carl Barks was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck , Gladstone Gander , the Beagle Boys , The Junior Woodchucks , Gyro Gearloose , Cornelius Coot , Flintheart Glomgold , John D...

  • Graeme Base
    Graeme Base
    Graeme Rowland Base is an Australian author and artist of picture books. He is perhaps best known for his second book, Animalia published in 1986, and third book The Eleventh Hour which was released in 1989....

  • Gary Baseman
    Gary Baseman
    Gary Baseman is a contemporary artist who works in various creative fields, including illustration, fine art, toy design, and animation. He is the creator of the Emmy-winning ABC/Disney cartoon series, Teacher’s Pet, and the artistic designer of Cranium, a popular board game...

  • Rudi Bass
    Rudi Bass
    Rudolf "Rudi" Bass was a graphic artist, illustrator, and writer. Bass was the art director of the Graphic Arts Department of CBS News during the 1960s, during which time he pioneered the production of a legible typography...

  • Richard Bassford
    Richard Bassford
    Richard Bassford is an American illustrator who has worked in both advertising and comic books.- Biography :Raised in the New York City borough of Queens from age three, he lived successively in the neighborhoods of Maspeth, Corona and Whitestone until his marriage in 1961, when he moved to Flushing...

  • John Batchelor (illustrator)
    John Batchelor (illustrator)
    John Batchelor is an English artist and arguably the world's foremost technical illustrator, particularly known for his clear and detailed illustrations of vehicles and military equipment. His work can be seen in many late-20th-century works on armour, fighting vehicles, ships, firearms, etc....

  • John Dickson Batten
    John Dickson Batten
    John Dickson Batten was a British painter of figures in oils, tempera and fresco and a book illustrator and print maker. He was born in Plymouth, Devon. He was an active member of the Society of Painters in Tempera, with his wife Mary Batten, a gilder...

  • Pauline Baynes
    Pauline Baynes
    Pauline Diana Baynes was an English book illustrator, whose work encompassed more than 100 books, notably those by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien. She was born in Hove, Sussex....

  • Aubrey Beardsley
    Aubrey Beardsley
    Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His drawings, done in black ink and influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasized the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A....

  • Julie Bell
    Julie Bell
    Julie Bell is an American painter. A fantasy artist and wildlife artist, she is a former bodybuilder and fantasy model for her husband, painter Boris Vallejo.-Career:...

  • Ludwig Bemelmans
    Ludwig Bemelmans
    Ludwig Bemelmans was an Austrian author, an internationally known gourmet, and a writer and illustrator of children's books. He is most noted today for his Madeline books, six of which were published from 1939-1961...

  • Earle K. Bergey
    Earle K. Bergey
    Earle K. Bergey was an American illustrator who painted cover art for a wide diversity of magazines and paperback books...

  • Jon Berkeley
    Jon Berkeley
    Jon Berkeley is a Dublin-born illustrator and children's author.- Background :He travelled widely in the 1980s, working freelance in London, Sydney and Hong Kong before returning to Dublin in 1992, where he formed a loose coalition known as Baggot Street Central with other leading Irish...

  • Louisa Bertman
    Louisa Bertman
    Louisa Bertman is an American illustrator living in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is known for her "untraditional portraitures of celebrities and personalities".- Personal life :...

  • Elsa Beskow
    Elsa Beskow
    Elsa Beskow was a Swedish author and illustrator of children's books...

  • Ivan Bilibin
    Ivan Bilibin
    Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin was a 20th-century illustrator and stage designer who took part in the Mir iskusstva and contributed to the Ballets Russes. Throughout his career, he was inspired by Slavic folklore....

  • Guy Billout
    Guy Billout
    Guy Billout is a French artist and illustrator. Billout's aesthetic style is clean and spare, sometimes incorporating some ironic element...

  • Quentin Blake
    Quentin Blake
    Quentin Saxby Blake, CBE, FCSD, RDI, is an English cartoonist, illustrator and children's author, well-known for his collaborations with writer Roald Dahl.-Education:...

  • Mary Blair
    Mary Blair
    Mary Blair , born Mary Robinson, was an American artist who was prominent in producing art and animation for The Walt Disney Company, drawing concept art for such films as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Song of the South and Cinderella...

  • Hannes Bok
    Hannes Bok
    Hannes Bok, pseudonym for Wayne Francis Woodard , was an American artist and illustrator, as well as an amateur astrologer and writer of fantasy fiction and poetry. He painted nearly 150 covers for various science fiction, fantasy, and detective fiction magazines, as well as contributing hundreds...

  • Enoch Bolles
    Enoch Bolles
    Enoch Bolles was an American painter of pin-up art. He was among the earliest and most widely circulated glamour illustrators...

  • Chesley Bonestell
    Chesley Bonestell
    Chesley Bonestell was an American painter, designer and illustrator. His paintings were a major influence on science fiction art and illustration, and he helped inspire the American space program...

  • Melinda Bordelon
    Melinda Bordelon
    Melinda Jane Bordelon was an American painter and illustrator whose professional work adorned magazine covers, articles, and advertisements—as well as album covers, book covers, and video game packaging—produced from the early 1970s through the 1990s...

  • Eleanor Vere Boyle
    Eleanor Vere Boyle
    Eleanor Vere Gordon Boyle was an English artist and author of the Victorian era. She has been considered the most important female illustrator of the 1860s....

  • Syd Brak
    Syd Brak
    Syd Brak is an illustrator.In the mid 1970s, Syd was awarded the 'gold award' for design and illustration in Johannesburg South Africa by Bill Bernbach. In the late 1970s, Syd moved to London. He started working as a freelance airbrush artist...

  • Lynn Breeze
    Lynn Breeze
    Lynn Breeze is a British illustrator and author.Lynn is known for writing and illustrating children's books, including "All Day Long" and "All Night Long" Hodder & Stoughton; the "This Little Baby" series Orchard ; "Babyfaces" series Orchard ; "Pickle" books...

  • Rae Bridgman
    Rae Bridgman
    Rae Bridgman is a Canadian anthropologist, and the author/illustrator of The MiddleGate Books, a series of fantasy books for children inspired by the Narcisse Snake Pits of Narcisse, Manitoba -- The Serpent’s Spell , Amber Ambrosia and Fish and Sphinx...

  • Pierre Brissaud
    Pierre Brissaud
    Pierre Brissaud was a French Art Deco illustrator, painter, and engraver whose father was Docteur Edouard Brissaud. He was born in Paris and trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and Atelier Fernand Cormon in Montmartre, Paris. His fellow Cormon students were his brother Jacques, André-Édouard...

  • Steve Brodner
    Steve Brodner
    Steve Brodner is an American satirical illustrator and caricaturist working for publications for a quarter century...

  • Jason Brooks
  • Brom
    Gerald Brom
    Gerald Brom is an American gothic fantasy artist and illustrator, known for his work in role-playing games, novels, and comics.-Early life:Brom was born March 9, 1965, in Albany, Georgia. As the son of a U.S...

  • Gordon Browne
    Gordon Browne
    Gordon Frederick Browne was an English artist and children's book illustrator in the late 19th century and early 20th century....

  • Margaret Brundage
    Margaret Brundage
    Margaret Brundage, born Margaret Hedda Johnson was an American illustrator and painter who is remembered chiefly for having illustrated the pulp magazine Weird Tales...

  • Nancy Ekholm Burkert
    Nancy Ekholm Burkert
    Nancy Ekholm Burkert is an American artist and illustrator, first known for her 1961 illustrated book, the original edition of James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl...

  • Priscilla Susan Bury
    Priscilla Susan Bury
    Priscilla Susan Bury, born Falkner , was an English botanist and illustrator.Daughter of a rich Liverpool merchant, she married on 4 March 1830 Edward Bury , a noted railway engineer. Working with amateur botanist William Roscoe , she published in 1831-1834 A Selection of Hexandrian Plants...


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  • Edd Cartier
    Edd Cartier
    Edward "Edd" Daniel Cartier , was an American pulp magazine illustrator.Born in North Bergen, New Jersey, Cartier studied at Pratt Institute. Following his 1936 graduation from Pratt, his artwork was published in Street and Smith publications, including The Shadow, to which he contributed many...

  • Echo Chernik
    Echo Chernik
    Echo Chernik is an American Art Nouveau artist. Her motif is an art nouveau/jugendstil influenced style, with elaborate decorative borders, women with flowing and entwining hair, sometimes accompanied by elaborate typography.-Early life:Chernik was born in Ellington, Connecticut...

  • Richard Chopping
    Richard Chopping
    Richard Wasey Chopping was a British illustrator and author best known for painting the dust jackets of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels starting with From Russia, with Love .-Early life:...

  • Howard Chandler Christy
    Howard Chandler Christy
    Howard Chandler Christy was an American artist and illustrator famous for the "Christy Girl", similar to a "Gibson Girl".He was born in Morgan County and attended early school in Duncan Falls, Ohio...

  • Watson Charlton
    Watson Charlton
    Watson Charlton was a British illustrator of children's books. He was born in Sunderland, Durham, the son of the painter John William Charlton .- Selected works illustrated by Watson Charlton :...

  • Alan M. Clark
    Alan M. Clark
    Alan Marshall Clark is an author and an artist who is best known as the illustrator and book cover painter of many pieces of horror fiction. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for his 2005 book Siren Promised .He has won the World Fantasy Award for his illustrations ,...

  • Harry Clarke
    Harry Clarke
    Harry Clarke was an Irish stained glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement.- History :...

  • John Cecil Clay
    John Cecil Clay
    John Cecil Clay, 1875-1930, was an American illustrator known for genre and caricature paintings.Clay was born in Ronceverte, West Virginia to a long-time Southern family. He was a student of Henry Siddons Mowbray at the Art Students League of New York and had a graphic style that was suited to...

  • John Clymer
    John Clymer
    John Ford Clymer was an American painter and illustrator known for his work that captured nature and the American West....

  • Coop
    Coop (artist)
    Coop is a hot rod artist working from Los Angeles. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1968, and describes his occupation as "Insensitive Artiste". His work consists primarily of barely clothed Bettie Page-style 1950s soft pornography and/or B-movie monsters, with the female characters often taking...

  • Kinuko Y. Craft
    Kinuko Y. Craft
    Kinuko Y. Craft is a Japanese-born American contemporary painter, illustrator and fantasy artist.-Biography:Craft came to the United States in 1964 where she continues to live and work today. Her art has included paintings for the book covers of many well known fantasy authors such as Patricia A....

  • Reed Crandall
    Reed Crandall
    Reed Crandall was an American illustrator and penciller of comic books and magazines. He was best known for the Quality Comics character Blackhawk and for stories in the critically acclaimed EC Comics of the 1950s.Crandall was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2009.-Early...

  • Donald Crews
    Donald Crews
    Donald Crews is a U.S. writer and illustrator of several well-known children's picture books. He won the Caldecott Honor twice. Common subjects of his include modern technology , and childhood memories. His stories often include few humans.-Biography:Donald Crews was born in Newark, New Jersey, in...


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  • Lyman Dally
    Lyman Dally
    Lyman M. Dally is an illustrator and former competitive bodybuilder perhaps best known for the comic strip Max Rep: Mr. Astrotitan 2206 appearing in FLEX in the late 1980's and Muscular Development throughout the 90's until its cancellation, though Dally continued to illustrate articles for MD...

  • Geofrey Darrow
    Geof Darrow
    Geofrey "Geof" Darrow is a comic artist known for his work on books such as Hard Boiled and Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot, which was adapted into an animated TV series of the same name.-Character design and Moebius collaborations:...

  • Jack Davis
    Jack Davis (cartoonist)
    Jack Davis is an American cartoonist and illustrator, known for his advertising art, magazine covers, film posters, record album art and numerous comic book stories...

  • Reginald Ben Davis
    Reginald Ben Davis
    Reginald Ben Davis was a British wildlife artist who contributed many painted pages to Look and Learn and Treasure magazines. Davis also drew comic strips and cover illustrations for girls' comics.-External links:*...

  • Jane Mary Dealy
    Jane Mary Dealy
    Jane Mary Dealy was an English artist of the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She was noted for her pictures of children, and was a successful illustrator of children's books....

  • Paul Degen
    Paul Degen
    Paul Degen was a Swiss illustrator, caricaturist, painter and sculptor. He is mostly known for the cartoons he did for The New York Times and his 34 title illustrations for The New Yorker magazine in the 1970s and 1980s...

  • Christopher Denise
    Christopher Denise
    Christopher Denise is the artist for many of Brian Jacques' Redwall books. He Illustrated the picture books The Great Redwall Feast and A Redwall Winter's Tale....

  • Vince Deporter
  • Peter DeSeve
    Peter DeSeve
    Peter de Sève is an American artist who has worked in the illustration and animation fields. He has drawn many covers for the magazine The New Yorker. As a character designer, he worked on the characters of A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, Robots and the Ice Age trilogy . He received the National...

  • Leo and Diane Dillon
    Leo and Diane Dillon
    Leo and Diane Dillon are an American husband and wife team of illustrators. Among their awards are two consecutive Caldecott Medals for the children's books Why Mosquitoes Buzz In People's Ears and Ashanti To Zulu: African Traditions....

  • Irv Docktor
    Irv Docktor
    Irving Sidmond Docktor was a prolific artist and educator best known for his work as a book and magazine illustrator in the 1950s and 1960s. His psychologically arresting and aesthetically distinctive style, featuring angular often overlapping faces executed with a moody palette, made him one of...

  • Richard Doyle
    Richard Doyle (illustrator)
    Richard "Dickie" Doyle was a notable illustrator of the Victorian era. His work frequently appeared, amongst other places, in Punch magazine; he drew the cover of the first issue, and designed the magazine's masthead, a design that was used for over a century.Born at 17 Cambridge Terrace, London,...

  • Roger Drew
    Roger Drew
    Roger Drew is a British illustrator and television screenwriter.His illustration work ranges from music sleeve art for The Darkness, to TV artwork for Alexei Sayle's Merry-Go-Round and Johnny Vaughan Tonight....

  • Edmund Dulac
    Edmund Dulac
    Edmund Dulac was a French book illustrator.-Early life and career:Born in Toulouse, France, he began his career by studying law at the University of Toulouse. He also studied art, switching to it full time after he became bored with law, and having won prizes at the Ecole des Beaux Arts...

  • Harvey Dunn
    Harvey Dunn
    Harvey Thomas Dunn was an American painter. He is best known for his prairie-intimate masterpiece, The Prairie is My Garden. In this painting, a mother and her son and daughter are out gathering flowers from the quintessential prairie of the Great Plains.-Early life:Dunn was born on a homestead...


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  • Nicolas Eekman
    Nicolas Eekman
    Nicolas Mathieu Eekman , born Nikolaas Mathijs Eekman, is a Belgian figurative painter of Flemish descent, also known in France, in Belgium and in the Netherlands as Nico Eekman, Nic Eekman and under the pseudonym Ekma.He is also recognised for his drawings, watercolours and engravings.He...

  • Lois Ehlert
    Lois Ehlert
    Lois Ehlert is an author and illustrator of children's books, most having to do with nature. Ehlert won the Caldecott Honor for Color Zoo . She lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.-Background:...

  • Edna Eicke
    Edna Eicke
    Edna Eicke was for many years an illustrator of distinctive covers for the New Yorker magazine. 'Do you have trouble letting go of old copies of The New Yorker?' asked John Updike in the foreword to an anthology of the magazine's covers...

  • Will Elder
    Will Elder
    William Elder was an American illustrator and comic book artist who worked in numerous areas of commercial art, but is best known for a zany cartoon style that helped launch Harvey Kurtzman's Mad comic book in 1952....

  • Gil Elvgren
    Gil Elvgren
    Gil Elvgren , born Gillette Elvgren, was an American painter of pin-up girls, advertising and illustration. Elvgren was one of the more important pin-up and glamour artists of the twentieth century. Today he is best known for his pin-up paintings for Brown & Bigelow...

  • Ed Emberley
    Ed Emberley
    Edward Randolph Emberley is an American artist and illustrator.- Biography :Emberley studied art at the Massachusetts School of Art in Boston , from which he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and illustration...

  • Ed Emshwiller
    Ed Emshwiller
    Ed Emshwiller was a visual artist notable for illustrations of many science fiction magazine covers and for his pioneering experimental films...

  • Mark English
    Mark English
    Mark English is an American illustrator and painter, born in Hubbard, Texas, whose work has appeared in such publications as Redbook, Sports Illustrated, McCall's, Atlantic Monthly, Good Housekeeping, TIME, and others. In 1983, English entered « The Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame in New...

  • Maginel Wright Enright
  • Erté
  • Dulah Marie Evans
    Dulah Marie Evans
    Dulah Marie Evans, later Dulah Marie Evans Krehbiel was an American painter, photographer, printmaker, illustrator, and etcher.-Education:...

  • Carl Eytel
    Carl Eytel
    Carl A. Eytel was a German-American artist living in Palm Springs, California, known for his paintings and drawings of desert landscapes.-Life:...


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  • Jules Férat
    Jules Férat
    Jules-Descartes Férat was a French artist and illustrator, famous for his portrayals of factories and their workers.He illustrated the books of many known authors, such as Jules Verne, Edgar Allan Poe, and Victor Hugo. Some critics consider his illustrations for Jules Verne's novel The Mysterious...

  • Cathie Felstead
    Cathie Felstead
    Cathie Felstead, born 1954 in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, in the UK, is an English illustrator. Felstead attended Chelsea School of Art, where she gained a BA in graphic design. She then studied illustration at the Royal College of Art, graduating with an MA in 1980.Felstead commenced her...

  • Albert Lee Ferris
    Albert Lee Ferris
    Albert Lee Ferris was a Native American genre artist. He was an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and also had Lebanese/Arabic ancestry...

  • Virgil Finlay
    Virgil Finlay
    Virgil Finlay was an American pulp fantasy, science fiction and horror illustrator. While he worked in a range of media, from gouache to oils, Finlay specialized in, and became famous for, detailed pen-and-ink drawings accomplished with abundant stippling, cross-hatching, and scratchboard techniques...

  • Steve Fiorilla
    Steve Fiorilla
    Steve Fiorilla was an American artist born in Paterson, New Jersey, who lived and worked in Buffalo, New York. Throughout his career, Fiorilla emphasized the grotesque and surreal in illustrations, sculpture and fine art. As a sculptor, he produced a variety of bizarre, malformed creatures...

  • James Montgomery Flagg
    James Montgomery Flagg
    James Montgomery Flagg was an American artist and illustrator. He worked in media ranging from fine art painting to cartooning, but is best remembered for his political posters....

  • Jim Flora
    Jim Flora
    James "Jim" Flora , best known for his distinctive and idiosyncratic album cover art for RCA Victor and Columbia Records during the 1940s and 1950s, was also a prolific commercial illustrator from the 1940s to the 1970s and the author/illustrator of 17 popular children's books...

  • René Follet
    René Follet
    René Follet , sometimes known by the pen name Ref, is a Belgian illustrator, comics writer and artist.-Biography:René Follet was born in Brussels in 1931. His first publication appeared when he was 14, illustrating a promotional issue of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island for Aiglon, a...

  • Mary Hallock Foote
    Mary Hallock Foote
    Mary Hallock Foote was an American author and illustrator. She is best known for her illustrated short stories and novels portraying life in the mining communities of the turn-of-the-century American West.-Overview:...

  • Henry J. Ford
    Henry J. Ford
    -Gallery:Henry Justice Ford was a prolific and successful artist and illustrator, active from 1886 through to the late 1920s. Sometimes known as HJFord or Henry J Ford, he came to public attention when he provided the numerous beautiful illustrations for Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, which captured...

  • Hal Foster
  • Julien Fournie
    Julien Fournié
    Julien Fournié is a French fashion designer and CEO of his own eponymous haute couture company founded in the summer of 2009. Previously, he was the last Creative Director of the Paris-based haute couture fashion house Torrente...

  • Jane Frank
    Jane Frank
    Jane Schenthal Frank was an American artist. She studied with Hans Hofmann and Norman Carlberg and is known as a painter, sculptor, mixed media artist, and textile artist...

  • Frank Frazetta
    Frank Frazetta
    Frank Frazetta was an American fantasy and science fiction artist, noted for work in comic books, paperback book covers, paintings, posters, LP record album covers and other media...

  • Kelly Freas
    Frank Kelly Freas
    Frank Kelly Freas , called the "Dean of Science Fiction Artists", was a science fiction and fantasy artist with a career spanning more than 50 years.-Early life, education, and personal life:...

  • Barbara C. Freeman
    Barbara C. Freeman
    Barbara Constance Freeman was an English writer and illustrator of books for children and young adults.-Biography:Barbara Constance Freeman was born on 29 November 1906 in Ealing, near London...

  • Oli Frey
    Oli Frey
    Oliver "Oli" Frey is a magazine illustrator and artist who worked on comic strips in the 1970s and 1980s.- Biography :Frey was born in Zurich, Switzerland on 30 June 1948. He grew up fluent in Italian and German...

  • Bernie Fuchs
    Bernie Fuchs
    Bernie Fuchs was an American illustrator known for advertising art, magazine illustration and portraiture, including for a series of U.S. postage stamps.-Biography:...

  • Tom Funk
    Tom Funk (illustrator)
    Tom Funk was an illustrator who for some 40 years was associated with the distinctive visual style of the New Yorker magazine, to which he contributed ‘spots’ depicting New York buildings, portraits for profiles of subjects ranging from Pablo Picasso to D. T...

  • Gyo Fujikawa
    Gyo Fujikawa
    Gyo Fujikawa was an American illustrator and children's book author. A prolific creator of more than 50 books for children, her work is regularly in reprint and has been translated into 17 languages and published in 22 countries. Her most popular books, Babies and Baby Animals, have sold over 1.7...

  • Anthony Freda
    Anthony Freda
    Anthony Freda is a freelance illustrator whose work has been published in , The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, , , and . Freda's paintings have hung in galleries such as the and The Puck Building in New York City at Gen Art's Summer Art Festival in 2002. Freda was trained at Pratt Institute and...


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  • Wanda Gág
    Wanda Gág
    Wanda Hazel Gág was an American author and illustrator. She was born on March 11, 1893, in New Ulm, Minnesota. Her mother and father were of Bohemian descent. Both parents were artists who had met in Germany. They had seven children, who all acquired some level of artistic talent...

  • Hector Garrido
    Hector Garrido
    Hector Garrido is an American book cover illustrator. He illustrated numerous science fiction, horror and adventure book covers, including all the covers for the Baroness series of pulp novels, and covers for the Destroyer series. He also illustrated romance and gothic novels, and Nancy Drew and...

  • Charles Dana Gibson
    Charles Dana Gibson
    Charles Dana Gibson was an American graphic artist, best known for his creation of the Gibson Girl, an iconic representation of the beautiful and independent American woman at the turn of the 20th century....

  • Eric Gill
    Eric Gill
    Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was a British sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement...

  • Milton Glaser
    Milton Glaser
    Milton Glaser is a graphic designer, best known for the I Love New York logo, his "Bob Dylan" poster, the "DC bullet" logo used by DC Comics from 1977 to 2005, and the "Brooklyn Brewery" logo. He also founded New York Magazine with Clay Felker in 1968.-Biography:Glaser was born into a Hungarian...

  • Frank Godwin
    Frank Godwin
    Francis Godwin , better known as Frank Godwin, was an American illustrator and comic strip artist, notable for his strip Connie and his book illustrations for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Robinson Crusoe, Robin Hood and King Arthur...

  • Edward Gorey
    Edward Gorey
    Edward St. John Gorey was an American writer and artist noted for his macabre illustrated books.-Early life:...

  • Vernon Grant
    Vernon Grant
    Vernon Ethelbert Grant was a cartoonist who did graphic novels, and is also known for his digest-sized comic book series, The Love Rangers...

  • Elizabeth Shippen Green
    Elizabeth Shippen Green
    Elizabeth Shippen Green was an American illustrator. She illustrated children's books and worked for many years for Harper's Magazine....

  • Kate Greenaway
    Kate Greenaway
    Catherine Greenaway , known as Kate Greenaway, was an English children's book illustrator and writer, who spent much of her childhood at Rolleston, Nottinghamshire. She studied at what is now the Royal College of Art in London, which at that time had a separate section for women, and was headed by...

  • Rebecca Guay
    Rebecca Guay
    Rebecca Guay is an artist specializing in watercolor painting and illustration. She is mostly known for her work commissioned by Magic: The Gathering, White Wolf, and DC Vertigo comics, World of Warcraft TCG, Wizards of the Coast, Dungeons & Dragons and Bella Sara TCG.-Early life:Guay received a...


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  • Michael Hague
    Michael Hague
    Michael Hague is an American illustrator, primarily of children's fantasy books.-Biography:Among the books he has illustrated are classics such as The Wind in the Willows, The Wizard of Oz, The Hobbit and the stories of Hans Christian Andersen...

  • Baron Barrymore Halpenny
    Baron Barrymore Halpenny
    Baron Barrymore Halpenny is a commercial artist, executive editor, writer and historian of traditions and culture, who does work for several publications, but is best known for his book cover illustrations for Ghost Stations, for which he has also been editor for the newly released series.-Early...

  • Clifford Harper
    Clifford Harper
    Clifford Harper is an illustrator and militant anarchist. He was born in Chiswick, West London on the 13th of July 1949. His father was a postman and his mother a cook. Expelled from school at 13 and placed on 2 years probation at 14, he then worked in a series of "menial jobs" before 'turning on,...

  • Jim Harris
    Jim Harris (illustrator/author)
    Jim Harris is an illustrator and author of children’s books, with more than three million copies in print. His books are best known for their detailed and humorous depictions of animal and human characters.-Author:*Jack and the Giant...

  • Ernest William Haslehust
    Ernest William Haslehust
    Ernest William Haslehust was an English landscape painter and book illustrator who worked in watercolours.-Life and work:...

  • Ruth Heller
    Ruth Heller
    Ruth Heller was a children's author and graphic artist known for her use of bright color and detail in both geometric design and the representation of creatures,plants, patterns, and puzzles. She worked primarily with a combination of colored pencil and marker for her book illustrations...

  • Danny Hellman
    Danny Hellman
    Danny Hellman is an American freelance illustrator and cartoonist nicknamed Dirty Danny. Since 1989, his illustrations have appeared in publications including Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, The Wall Street Journal and others, and his comic book work has appeared in DC Comics...

  • Brett Helquist
    Brett Helquist
    Brett L. Helquist is an American illustrator best known for his work in the children's books A Series of Unfortunate Events. As such, his illustrations for that series have appeared in multiple media, including the books, the audiobook covers, the calendars, and so on.- Background :According to...

  • Joseph Morgan Henninger
    Joseph Morgan Henninger
    Joseph Morgan Henninger was an American artist and illustrator. He was born in Elwood, Indiana and died In Pacific Palisades, California....

  • Don Hewitt
    Don Hewitt
    Donald Shepard "Don" Hewitt was an American television news producer and executive, best known for creating 60 Minutes, the CBS television news magazine, in 1968, which at the time of his death, was the longest-running prime-time broadcast on American television...

  • Susie Hodge
    Susie Hodge
    Susie Hodge is a British author and artist who has written more than fifty books and many articles and web resources for both children and adults, within genres such as art history, practical art, history, design, science, religion and biography....

  • Holling C. Holling
    Holling C. Holling
    Holling Clancy Holling was an American author and illustrator, best known for the book Paddle-to-the-Sea, which was a Caldecott Honor Book in 1942. Paddle to the Sea won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962...

  • William Hogarth
    William Hogarth
    William Hogarth was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects"...

  • Katsushika Hokusai
    Hokusai
    was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. He was influenced by such painters as Sesshu, and other styles of Chinese painting...

  • Brad Holland
    Brad Holland (artist)
    Bradford Wayne Holland is an American illustrator, best known for his work for Playboy and Penthouse magazines.-Biography:...

  • Nicole Hollander
    Nicole Hollander
    Nicole Hollander is an American cartoonist and writer. Her daily comic strip Sylvia is syndicated to newspapers nationally by Tribune Media Services and also can be seen on her blog, BadGirl Chats....

  • Edgar Alfred Holloway
    Edgar Alfred Holloway
    Edgar Alfred Holloway was a noted illustrator of children's books. He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire. He became a war artist during the Boer War. He excelled in military uniform portraits and he worked extensively for Gale and Polden producing military uniform pictures for their postcard series...

  • Winslow Homer
    Winslow Homer
    Winslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in American art....

  • Daniel Horne
    Daniel Horne
    -Works:Daniel Horne has produced interior and cover illustrations for role-playing game books since 1986. In addition to several covers for Dragon and Dungeon magazine, Horne illustrated the covers of several Dungeons & Dragons books including Talons of Night , The Shattered Statue , Fate of Istus...

  • John Howe
  • Mentor Huebner
    Mentor Huebner
    Mentor Huebner was a leading Hollywood production illustrator who did storyboards, production art and creative concepts for more than 250 films, including King Kong , Blade Runner and Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula .His early work was uncredited on Fiddler on the Roof ,...

  • David Hughes
    David Hughes (illustrator)
    David Hughes is an artist and illustrator. He lives in Marple, Stockport, Greater Manchester, UK.-Biography:David Hughes, born in Twickenham describes himself as "a graphic designer who happens to illustrate."Expressing the desire to become an artist from a young age, he studied at Twickenham...

  • Debbie Hughes
    Debbie Hughes
    Debbie Hughes is an American artist specializing in science fiction and fantasy illustration. Her work has appeared in over 150 publications.-Early career :...

  • Robert Hunt
    Robert Hunt (illustrator)
    Robert Hunt is an American illustrator and painter.Robert Hunt received a BFA degree in Art History from the University of California and an MFA degree in Illustration from the Academy of Art in San Francisco...

  • Trina Schart Hyman
    Trina Schart Hyman
    Trina Schart Hyman was an American illustrator of children's books. She illustrated over 150 books, including fairy tales and Arthurian legends, and was the recipient of three Caldecott Honors and one Caldecott Medal....


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  • Robin Jacques
    Robin Jacques
    Robin Jacques was an illustrator whose work was published in more than 100 novels and children's books in the 20th century. He is notable for his long collaboration with Ruth Manning-Sanders, serving as the illustrator for many of her collections of fairy tales from all over the world...

  • Al Jaffee
    Al Jaffee
    Abraham Jaffee , known as Al Jaffee, is an American cartoonist. He is notable for his work in the satirical magazine Mad, including his trademark feature, the Mad Fold-in. As of 2010, Jaffee remains a regular in the magazine after 55 years and is its longest-running contributor...

  • Jago
    Jago (illustrator)
    Jago is a children's book illustrator based in St Mabyn, Cornwall, UK. He has produced digital illustrations for a variety of publishers: Barefoot Books, Oxford University Press, Mantra Lingua, Zondervan...

  • Zoran Janjetov
    Zoran Janjetov
    Zoran Janjetov is a Serbian comics artist. He lives in Novi Sad. Janjetov is best known as the illustrator of The Technopriests, written by Alejandro Jodorowsky. In 1986 he was chosen by Moebius to continue his work The Incal.- Biography :At very early age he started to draw with a strong support...

  • Kirk Jarvinen
    Kirk Jarvinen
    Kirk Jarvinen is an American artist / illustrator best known for his cartoon-style comic book art.-Biography:...

  • James Jean
    James Jean
    James Jean is a Taiwanese-American visual artist, known for both his commercial work and fine art gallery work. He is known in the American comics industry as a cover artist for various books published by DC Comics, as well as for his work for Prada, ESPN and Atlantic Records...

  • Alfred Garth Jones
    Alfred Garth Jones
    Alfred Garth Jones was an English artist and illustrator who worked mainly in woodcut, pen and ink line art drawing and watercolour.-Early life:...

  • Eddie Jones
    Eddie Jones (artist)
    Eddie Jones , born Edward John Jones, was a British science fiction illustrator, who started as a fan artist. He illustrated numerous science fiction book covers, some under the pseudonym S. Fantoni, and provided interior illustrations for books and magazines. Jones was active in the field from...

  • G.B. Jones
  • Federico Jordan
    Federico Jordan
    Federico Jordan Gomez is an editorial and advertising illustrator. His work has been published in Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The New Yorker and Wall Street Journal among others....


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  • Ingrida Kadaka
    Ingrida Kadaka
    Ingrida Kadaka is an artist and book designer and illustrator, best known for her work in the media of oil painting and etching. She matriculated at the Art Academy of Latvia , from which she received her BA and MA...

  • Maira Kalman
    Maira Kalman
    Maira Kalman, born in 1949, is an American illustrator, author, artist, and designer. Born in Tel Aviv, Kalman came to New York City with her family at age 4. She attended the High School of Music and Art, now LaGuardia High School....

  • Jack Kamen
    Jack Kamen
    Jack Kamen was an illustrator from Brooklyn, New York. His first professional job was as an assistant to a sculptor working for the Texas Centennial. He studied sculpture with Agop Agopoff and was a student of Harvey Dunn, George Brandt Bridgman and William C. McNulty...

  • Charles Keeping
    Charles Keeping
    Charles William James Keeping was a British illustrator, children's book author and lithographer. He first came to prominence with his illustrations for Rosemary Sutcliff's historical novels for children, and he created more than twenty picture books...

  • Jack Kent
  • Dóra Keresztes
    Dóra Keresztes
    Dóra Keresztes Hungarian painter, printmaker, illustrator, graphic designer and animated film director.-Biography:...

  • Charles Kerins
    Charles Kerins
    Charles M. Kerins American illustrator and painter.Kerins is a listed artist. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art and Northeastern University. Twice married, he was named one of America's Top 100 Illustrators by the Chicago Art Directors Club in 1956...

  • Kazu Kibuishi
    Kazu Kibuishi
    Kazu Kibuishi is an American graphic novel author and illustrator. He is best known for being the creator and editor of the comic anthology Flight and for creating the webcomic Copper. He is also the author and illustrator of the ongoing Amulet series...

  • J.D. King
    J.D. King
    J.D. King is an American artist best known for his commercial art illustrations for companies including Absolut Vodka, Atlantic Records, Condé Nast Publications, Sony, and others.-Biography:J.D...

  • Josh Kirby
    Josh Kirby
    Ronald William "Josh" Kirby was an English commercial artist born in Waterloo, on the outskirts of Liverpool, Merseyside. He was educated at the Liverpool City School of Art, where he acquired the nickname Josh, which comes from having his work compared to that of Sir Joshua Reynolds...

  • Cem Kiziltug
    Cem Kızıltuğ
    Cem KIZILTUG was Cem KIZILTUG was Cem KIZILTUG was (born in 1974, Istanbul.Cartoonist, illustrator.Kiziltug graduated from Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts in 1997.He is still working as an illustrator for national newspaper Zaman, where he started right after his graduation....

  • Hilary Knight
    Hilary Knight
    Hilary Knight is an American writer-artist who is the illustrator of more than 50 books and the author of nine books. He is best known as the illustrator of Kay Thompson's Eloise and others in the Eloise series....

  • Vlad Kolarov
    Vlad Kolarov
    Vlad Kolarov is an Bulgarian-born Canadian cartoonist and humorous illustrator. His cartoons have been published by numerous newspapers, magazines and web sites, and are available through the Internet.-References:**-External links:*...

  • Roy Krenkel
  • Marian Kretschmer
    Marian Kretschmer
    Marian Kretschmer is a German comics artist and illustrator. His most important released works are the comics series Blue Evolution, the series of picture postcards sponsored by the European Union EU charter of human rights and the art book Don't fall in love...


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  • Philippe Lardy
    Philippe Lardy
    Philippe Lardy, born in Switzerland in 1963, is an illustrator and painter. He attends the School of Visual Arts in the late 80's in New York. He co-publishes "GIN & COMIX" with Jose Ortega, inspired by RAW magazine, bringing together an international showcase of artists. He draws for numerous...

  • Rick Law
    Rick Law
    Rick Law is an American entertainment illustrator and producer. His clients have included Walt Disney Studios, Paramount Pictures and MTV, among others....

  • John Lawrence
    John Lawrence (illustrator)
    John Lawrence is an eminent English illustrator and wood engraver. He has twice won The Francis Williams Award for illustration , and twice been runner-up for the Kurt Emil - Maschler Award...

  • Edward Lear
    Edward Lear
    Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised.-Biography:...

  • Alan Lee
  • Alfred Leete
    Alfred Leete
    Alfred Ambrose Chew Leete was a British graphic artist. Born at Thorpe Achurch, Northamptonshire, he studied at Kingsholme School, Weston-super-Mare, before moving to London in 1899 and taking a post as an artist with a printer...

  • Lois Lenski
    Lois Lenski
    Lois Lenski was a popular and prolific American writer of children's and young adult fiction.One of her projects was a collection of regional novels about children across the United States...

  • Cecil Mary Leslie
    Cecil Mary Leslie
    Cecil Mary Leslie was an engraver, portrait painter, sculptor and illustrator. She studied at the Royal Academy Schools, and exhibited from 1923 until 1939 at the Royal Academy; the Society of Women Artists; the Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts; the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; the New English...

  • J. C. Leyendecker
    J. C. Leyendecker
    Joseph Christian Leyendecker was one of the pre-eminent American illustrators of the early 20th century. He is best known for his poster, book and advertising illustrations, the trade character known as The Arrow Collar Man, and his numerous covers for The Saturday Evening Post. Between 1896 and...

  • Harris Levey
    Harris Levey
    Harris Levey , whose pseudonyms included Lee Harris, Leland Harris, and Harris Levy, was a comic book artist for DC Comics primarily in the 1940s...

     (1921–1984), DC Comics illustrator
  • Kenneth Norman Lilly
    Kenneth Norman Lilly
    Kenneth Norman Lilly was a British wildlife artist who contributed many painted pages to Look and Learn and Treasure magazines.-External links:*...

  • Oleg Lipchenko
    Oleg Lipchenko
    Oleg Yurievich Lipchenko Олег Юрьевич Липченко is a Canadian artist and illustrator, member of CANSCAIP.He was born in Ukraine; has moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1999...

  • Andrew Loomis
    Andrew Loomis
    William Andrew Loomis , better known simply as Andrew Loomis, was an American illustrator, author, and art instructor. His commercial work was featured prominently in advertising and magazines; however, Loomis is best known as author a series of instructional art books printed throughout the 20th...

  • Cindy Luu
    Cindy Luu
    -Life:Cindy Luu graduated from Rhode Island School of Design. Her early career began with Bloomingdale's design department in Manhattan. She formed her own design company, CluuDesign, in 2001...

  • Lubov
    Lubov
    Lubov is the pseudonym of a Russian-born painter specializing in science fiction and fantasy art.-General information:...


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  • Angus McBride
    Angus McBride
    Angus McBride was an English historical and fantasy illustrator.Born in London to Highland Scots parents, Angus McBride was orphaned as a child when his mother died when he was five, and his father in World War Two when he was twelve. He was educated at the Canterbury Cathedral Choir School...

  • Winsor McCay
    Winsor McCay
    Winsor McCay 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...

  • David Mack
    David W. Mack
    David W. Mack is an American comic book artist and writer, best known for his creator-owned series Kabuki. Mack is known for his unique painted and collage-like work...

  • James E. McConnell
    James E. McConnell
    James Edwin McConnell was a British book and magazine cover artist best known for Western and historical subjects.-Life:...

  • Jim McDermott
    Jim McDermott (illustrator)
    Jim McDermott is a New Hampshire-based artist who has illustrated for animation, magazines and comic books....

  • Dave McKean
    Dave McKean
    David McKean is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician....

  • David McKee
    David McKee
    David McKee is a British author and illustrator, chiefly of children's books and animations. He has used the pseudonym Violet Easton. He is frequently referenced as David McKee.-Biography:...

  • Shawn McManus
    Shawn McManus
    Shawn McManus is an American artist who has worked extensively over three decades for DC Comics and other companies, notably for DC's Vertigo imprint, including the current Fables.-Swamp Thing:...

  • Robert Maguire
    Robert Maguire
    Robert A. Maguire , or R. A. Maguire, was a twentieth century American illustrator and fine artist. Known primarily for his crime noir paperback cover art, he has produced artwork for over 600 covers since 1950...

  • Matt Mahurin
    Matt Mahurin
    Matt Mahurin is an American illustrator, photographer and film director. Mahurin's illustrations appear in Time, Newsweek, Mother Jones, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Forbes, and The New York Times.Mahurin's work as a photo essayist has dealt with subjects such as homelessness, people with AIDS, the...

  • Lilian Medland
    Lilian Marguerite Medland
    Lilian Marguerite Medland was a nurse and illustrator of books on birds. She produced paintings to illustrate Gregory Mathews' books on Australian birds. She also illustrated the plates for her husband Tom Iredale's books Birds of Paradise and Bower Birds and Birds of New Guinea...

  • Marcel Marlier
    Marcel Marlier
    Marcel Marlier was a Belgian artist and illustrator. He was born in Herseaux, Belgium. When he was 16, he enroled in decorative art at Saint-Luc de Tournai. He finished his studies in 1951 with the greatest distinction. He returned as a teacher two years later.The Belgian publisher La Procure à...

  • Antoinette Martignoni
    Antoinette Martignoni
    Antoinette Martignoni, a.k.a. Toni Martignoni is an artist in the personal growth and development movement, who developed the Inner Portrait process that uses art as a self-help means to see hidden personal potential.- Family :...

  • Fortunino Matania
    Fortunino Matania
    Chevalier Fortunino Matania was an Italian artist noted for his realistic portrayal of historical subjects, including nude women.-Life:...

  • David Mattingly
  • Mercer Mayer
    Mercer Mayer
    Mercer Mayer is an American children's book writer and illustrator. He has published over 300 books using a wide range of illustrative styles...

  • James Mayhew
    James Mayhew
    James John Mayhew is a well-known English illustrator and author of children's books.Brought up in Blundeston, Suffolk, on leaving school Mayhew studied art at Lowestoft School of Art from 1982 to 1984, and then illustration at Maidstone College of Art, graduating BA in 1987 with first class honours...

  • Gorg Mallia
    Gorg Mallia
    Gorg Mallia is a communications academic, author and cartoonist working on the island of Malta . He is a senior lecturer at the Centre for Communication Technology, University of Malta.He has a B.A. in English Literature and an M.A...

  • John Alan Maxwell
    John Alan Maxwell
    John Alan Maxwell was an American artist known primarily for his book and magazine illustrations, as well as historical paintings...

  • Will G. Mein
    Will G. Mein
    Will G. Mein was a British book illustrator who flourished in the late 19th to early 20th century. He lived in London from around the turn of the century.- Life and works :Mein was born in Kelso, Roxburgh, Scotland...

  • Farshid Mesghali
    Farshid Mesghali
    Farshid Mesghali is an Iranian graphic designer, illustrator, animator and author.- Biography :Studying painting at Tehran University, he began his professional career as a graphic designer and illustrator in 1964. After his graduation, he joined the Institute for the Intellectual Development for...

  • Florence Meyerheim
    Florence Meyerheim
    Florence Meyerheim was a British illustrator of children's books. She was born in Barton upon Irwell. She illustrated books by a group of contemporary authors who were associated with the Religious Tract Society, the Sunday School Union and publisher Andrew Melrose, one of the first being W.E....

  • Barry Moser
    Barry Moser
    Barry Moser is a renowned artist, most famous as a printmaker and illustrator of numerous works of literature.Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in 1940, Moser studied at the Baylor School, Auburn University, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and did graduate work at the University of...

  • Marc Mosnier
    Marc Mosnier
    Marc Mosnier is a hyper-realistic illustrator, born in Nantes, France.His current body of work includes illustrations for over a hundred fantasy novels, science-fiction and youth books, as well as numerous encyclopedic volumes....

  • Alfons Mucha
    Alfons Mucha
    Alfons Maria Mucha , known in English as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs.-Early years:...

  • Salvatore Murdocca
    Salvatore Murdocca
    Salvatore "Sal" Murdocca is a children's book illustrator.Born on April 26, 1943, Salvatore Murdocca grew up in Brooklyn, NY. He attended the High School of Art and Design in New York City majoring in illustration...

  • Mr Bingo
    Mr Bingo
    Mr Bingo , born in 1979, is an illustrator/animator, living and working in London, UK.-Biography:Mr Bingo works from his studio, in Shoreditch, London." He describes himself as having a "slightly smaller than average" head and "girl's arms," plus "the same haircut as his mum"...


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  • Sidney Paget
    Sidney Paget
    Sidney Edward Paget was a British illustrator of the Victorian era, best known for his illustrations that accompanied Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in The Strand magazine.- Life :...

  • William Papas
    William Papas
    William "Bill" Papas was a political cartoonist and caricaturist, book illustrator and watercolourist. In the 1960s and 1970s he worked for The Guardian, The Sunday Times and Punch...

  • Roberto Parada
    Roberto Parada
    Roberto Parada is a freelance illustrator who has been creating paintings for major American magazines for the past 15 years. Some of the publications include TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, Reader's Digest, Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Sports Illustrated and Esquire.Roberto graduated from Pratt...

  • Peter Parnall
    Peter Parnall
    Peter Parnall is an author and artist/illustrator, best known for his work on books for younger readers. The Mountain,Alfalfa Hill, and A dog's book of Birds... His work has earned him high praise and a number of awards. Some of his books have become collector items...

  • Maxfield Parrish
    Maxfield Parrish
    Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the twentieth century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery.-Life:...

  • Frank R. Paul
    Frank R. Paul
    Frank Rudolph Paul was an illustrator of US pulp magazines in the science fiction field. He was born in Vienna, Austria and died at his home in Teaneck, New Jersey....

  • C.F. Payne
  • Bob Peak
    Bob Peak
    Robert "Bob" M. Peak was an American commercial illustrator best known for innovative design in the development of the modern movie poster....

  • Mervyn Peake
    Mervyn Peake
    Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R...

  • Susan Beatrice Pearse
    Susan Beatrice Pearse
    Susan Beatrice Pearse was a British illustrator of children's books and creator of images for postcards and greeting cards. She is best known for her work on the Ameliaranne series of children's books...

  • Clara Elsene Peck
    Clara Elsene Peck
    Clara Elsene Peck was an American illustrator and painter known for her illustrations of women and children in the early 20th century. Peck received her arts education from the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts and was employed as a magazine illustrator from 1906-1940...

  • Rob Pepper
    Rob Pepper
    Rob Pepper is an English artist known mostly for his daily drawings, using the Conscious Reflex Drawing technique, to redefine his associations with objects, people and places. His daily drawings have produced the exhibits 'Doxology', 'Life Stills' and 'A Texas Compendium' and book The Voice and...

  • Domingo F. Periconi
    Domingo F. Periconi
    Domingo Francisco Mario Periconi was an artist. His commercial specialty was Western themes, and his work can be found on the front cover of many pulp magazines of the 1930s....

  • Rosa C. Petherick
    Rosa C. Petherick
    Rosa Clementina Petherick was a British book illustrator. Born in Addiscombe, Croydon, she was the eldest of five daughters of the artist Horace William Petherick . She contributed illustrations to numerous children's story books, annuals and periodicals, particularly those produced by Blackie...

  • Myrea Pettit
    Myrea Pettit
    Myrea Pettit is an English fantasy and fairy artist and illustrator born in Northampton. She studied with famed Swedish illustrator Ann Mari Sjogren painting flowers, butterflies and fairies like Tinkerbell from Peter Pan....

  • André Pijet
    André Pijet
    André Pijet is an international editorial cartoonist. His satirical and humorous works have been published in Poland, Greece, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Turkey, the United States and Canada. In Quebec, he made a name for himself with a which he produced for a major Montreal daily...

  • Brian Pilkington
    Brian Pilkington (illustrator)
    Brian Charles Pilkington is an English-Icelandic illustrator and artist, best known for his illustrations of many Icelandic children's books since the 1980s...

  • Hanoch Piven
    Hanoch Piven
    Hanoch Piven is an Israeli mixed media artist best known for his celebrity caricatures.-History:Hanoch Piven was born in Uruguay and raised in Israel. He studied at the School of Visual Arts in New York, graduating in 1992...

  • Willy Pogany
    Willy Pogany
    William Andrew Pogany was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books.-Biography:...

  • Beatrix Potter
    Beatrix Potter
    Helen Beatrix Potter was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children’s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.Born into a privileged Unitarian...

  • Richard M. Powers
    Richard M. Powers
    Richard M. Powers was a science fiction illustrator.- Life and work :Born in Chicago 1921 into a Catholic family, Richard Michael Gorman Powers spent most of his early life supported by his mother and aunt. His father left the family when Powers was young...

  • Ernest Prater
    Ernest Prater
    Ernest Prater was a noted English artist and book illustrator, notable also for his work as a war correspondent and reportage artist during the Anglo-Boer War.-Life and works:...

  • Michael Mathias Prechtl
    Michael Mathias Prechtl
    Michael Mathias Prechtl was a German artist, illustrator and cartoonist. He served as a soldier on the Eastern Front during World War II and spent 1945-49 as a prisoner of war in the Soviet Union....

  • Alice and Martin Provensen
    Alice and Martin Provensen
    Alice Provensen and Martin Provensen were an American author-illustrator team who created children's books....

  • Howard Pyle
    Howard Pyle
    Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.__FORCETOC__...


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  • Arthur Rackham
    Arthur Rackham
    Arthur Rackham was an English book illustrator.-Biography:Rackham was born in London as one of 12 children. At the age of 18, he worked as a clerk at the Westminster Fire Office and began studying part-time at the Lambeth School of Art.In 1892 he left his job and started working for The...

  • Chris Raschka
    Chris Raschka
    Chris Raschka is an American author, illustrator, and violist. His Yo! Yes? was a Caldecott Honor book in 1993 but he may be most famous for his Hello, Goodbye Window, winner of the 2006 Caldecott Medal. Chris spent part of his childhood in Austria, his mother's homeland. He is a graduate of St....

  • Walter Ratterman
    Walter Ratterman
    Walter G. Ratterman , or W. G. Ratterman, was a twentieth century American genre painter and illustrator. In the 1920s, he had lived and painted in New York, where the majority of his artworks and illustrations were published. He subsequently moved and lived in Woodstock, New York from the 1930s...

  • Leonard Raven-Hill
    Leonard Raven-Hill
    Leonard Raven-Hill was an English artist, illustrator and cartoonist.He was born in Bath and educated at Bristol Grammar School and the Devon county school. He studied art at the Lambeth School of Art and then in Paris under MM. Bougereau and Aimé Morot...

  • Ralph Reese
    Ralph Reese
    Ralph Reese is an American artist who has illustrated for books, magazines, trading cards, comic books and comic strips, including a year drawing the Flash Gordon strip for King Features...

  • Alison Relyea
    Alison Relyea
    Alison Relyea is a professional illustrator whose work has appeared in children's books, newspapers, magazines and advertising. Alison attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she received degrees in art and English...

  • Robert Riger
    Robert Riger
    Robert Riger was a celebrated sports illustrator, photographer, award-winning television director, and cinematographer....

  • Albert Robida
    Albert Robida
    Albert Robida was an illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist. He edited and published La Caricature magazine for 12 years. Through the 1880s he wrote an acclaimed trilogy of futuristic novels...

  • David Roberts
    David Roberts (illustrator)
    David Roberts is a British children's illustrator. He has illustrated a large number of books in both black and white and colour. His black and white work mainly features in books for older readers and he has worked with such well-known authors as Philip Ardagh , G.P...

  • Heath Robinson
  • Norman Rockwell
    Norman Rockwell
    Norman Percevel Rockwell was a 20th-century American painter and illustrator. His works enjoy a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life scenarios he created for The Saturday Evening...

  • Spain Rodriguez
    Spain Rodriguez
    Manuel Rodriguez , better known as Spain or Spain Rodriguez, is an American underground cartoonist who created the character Trashman. His experiences on the road with the biker gang, the Road Vultures, provided inspiration for his work, as did his left-wing politics.-Biography:Born in Buffalo, New...

  • Félicien Rops
    Félicien Rops
    Félicien Rops was a Belgian artist, and printmaker in etching and aquatint.-Early life:Rops was born in Namur as the only son to Nicholas Rops and Sophie Maubile. He was educated at the University of Brussels...

  • Don Rosa
    Don Rosa
    Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known simply as Don Rosa, is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other characters created by Carl Barks for Disney comics, such as The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.-Early life:Don Rosa's grandfather,...

  • Rosalys
    Rosalys
    *Rosalys is a French author and illustrator who lives in Nantes, France.-Career:Her creations are the result of many influences, of her admiration for Western painting and of her passion for Japanese pop culture. She expresses herself by various media: artbooks, children's books, comic books,...

     French author and illustrator of artbooks, children's books and exhibitions
  • Alex Ross
    Alex Ross
    Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross is an American comic book painter, illustrator, and plotter. He is praised for his realistic, human depictions of classic comic book characters. Since the 1990s he has done work for Marvel Comics and DC Comics Nelson Alexander "Alex" Ross (born January 22, 1970) is an...

  • Graham Roumieu
    Graham Roumieu
    Graham Roumieu is a Canadian illustrator based in Toronto, Ontario. He is perhaps best known for his Bigfoot-themed books , but his work has also appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Harper's, and the Wall Street Journal.- Bibliography :*Roumieu,...

  • Willie Rushton
    Willie Rushton
    William George Rushton, commonly known as Willie Rushton was an English cartoonist, satirist, comedian, actor and performer who co-founded the Private Eye satirical magazine.- School and army :William George Rushton was born 18 August 1937 in the family home at Scarsdale Villas,...

  • Mark Ryden
    Mark Ryden
    -Early life:Ryden is the son of Barbara and Keith Ryden, born in Medford, Oregon but raised in Southern California. He has two sisters and two brothers, one a fellow artist named Keyth Ryden....


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  • Wiktor Sadowski
    Wiktor Sadowski
    Wiktor Sadowski is a Polish artist working in poster, illustration and painting. He was born in Olendry, Poland in 1956. He graduated in 1981 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw in Tomaszewski's studio.-Major awards:...

  • Robert Sabuda
    Robert Sabuda
    Robert James Sabuda is a leading children's pop-up book artist and paper engineer. His recent books, such as those describing the stories of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland, have been well-received and critically acclaimed.-Biography:Sabuda was born in Pinckney, Michigan...

  • Xavier Saint-Just
    Xavier Saint-Just
    Xavier Saint-Just pseud, of Georges Neczpal was a 20th century French artist, painter and illustrator. He illustrated ads for many of the top magazines during the 1950s and 1960s. He is most widely regarded as a children's book illustrator but also created erotic art under the slight name...

  • Norman Saunders
    Norman Saunders
    Norman Blaine Saunders was a prolific commercial artist who produced paintings for pulp magazines, paperbacks, men's adventure magazines, comic books and trading cards...

  • Zina Saunders
    Zina Saunders
    Zina Saunders is a Manhattan-based artist, writer, animator and educator. In 2010, for Mother Jones, she began creating regular weekly animations...

  • Allen Say
    Allen Say
    Allen Say is an Asian American author and illustrator best known for his book Grandfather's Journey, a picture book detailing his grandfather's voyage from Japan to the United States and back again, which won the 1994 Caldecott Medal. This story is autobiographical, and relates to Say's constant...

  • Gerald Scarfe
    Gerald Scarfe
    Gerald Anthony Scarfe, CBE, RDI, is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He worked as editorial cartoonist for The Sunday Times and illustrator for The New Yorker...

  • Ronald Searle
    Ronald Searle
    Ronald William Fordham Searle, CBE, RDI, is a British artist and cartoonist, best known as the creator of St Trinian's School. He is also the co-author of the Molesworth series....

  • Maurice Sendak
    Maurice Sendak
    Maurice Bernard Sendak is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963.-Early life:...

  • Kate Seredy
    Kate Seredy
    Kate Seredy was a Hungarian-born writer and illustrator of children's books, written in the English language.-Life:...

  • Charles Schneeman
  • Mark Shasha
    Mark Shasha
    Mark Shasha is an American artist. He is also an author, illustrator and educator. His subjects are often familiar and are usually inspired by the textures and light found along the New England coast where he lives and works....

  • Ben Shahn
    Ben Shahn
    Ben Shahn was a Lithuanian-born American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.-Biography:...

  • Nick Sharratt
    Nick Sharratt
    Nick Sharratt is a British illustrator and author of children's books, and was chosen to be the Official Illustrator for World Book Day 2006...

  • John Shelley
    John Shelley (illustrator)
    John Shelley John Shelley John Shelley (ジョン・シェリー)Born 28 June 1959 in Birmingham, is an award winning British-born illustrator, particularly noted for his work in Japan.-Career:...

  • Ernest Shepard
  • Gary Shipman
    Gary Shipman
    Gary Lee Shipman is an American comic book illustrator and writer. He is father to three children.-Biography:Shipman, with wife Rhoda Shipman, created the independently produced comic book series Pakkins' Land, both plotting out the stories together and Gary scripting, lettering, penciling, and...

  • David Shrigley
    David Shrigley
    -Life and career:Shrigley was born in Macclesfield on 17 September 1968, the younger of two children born to Rita and Joseph Shrigley. Shrigley grew up in Oadby, Leicestershire, England...

  • Slug Signorino
    Slug Signorino
    Slug Signorino is an illustrator and designer most notable for his cartoons in The Straight Dope, a nationally syndicated weekly newspaper column that he has illustrated since 1975. He lives and works in La Porte, Indiana.-External links:* *...

  • Peter Sis
    Peter Sis
    Peter Sís is an award-winning children's book writer and illustrator. Sís attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London...

  • Jessie Willcox Smith
    Jessie Willcox Smith
    Jessie Willcox Smith was a United States illustrator famous for her work in magazines such as Ladies Home Journal and for her illustrations for children's books....

  • Lane Smith
    Lane Smith (illustrator)
    Lane Smith is an American children's book author and illustrator.-Background:Smith was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but moved to Corona, California at a young age...

  • Konstantin Somov
    Konstantin Somov
    Konstantin Andreyevich Somov was a Russian artist associated with the Mir iskusstva. Born into a family of a major art historian and Hermitage Museum curator, he became interested in the 18th century art and music at an early age.Somov studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Ilya Repin from...

  • Lancelot Speed
    Lancelot Speed
    Lancelot Speed was a famous Victorian illustrator of books, usually of a fantastical or romantic nature. He is probably most well-known for his illustrations for Andrew Lang's fairy story books. Speed is credited as the designer on the 1916 silent movie version of the novel She by H...

  • Armstrong Sperry
    Armstrong Sperry
    Armstrong Wells Sperry was an American writer and illustrator of children's literature. His books include historical fiction and biography, often set on sailing ships, and stories of boys from Polynesia, Asia and indigenous American cultures...

  • Art Spiegelman
    Art Spiegelman
    Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book memoir, Maus. His works are published with his name in lowercase: art spiegelman.-Biography:Spiegelman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to Polish Jews...

  • Bob Staake
    Bob Staake
    Bob Staake is an American illustrator, cartoonist, children's book author and designer. He lives and works in Chatham, Massachusetts on the elbow of Cape Cod....

  • Ralph Steadman
    Ralph Steadman
    Ralph Steadman is a British cartoonist and caricaturist who is perhaps best known for his work with American author Hunter S. Thompson.-Personal life:Steadman was born in Wallasey, Cheshire, and brought up in Towyn, North Wales...

  • Frederic Dorr Steele
    Frederic Dorr Steele
    Frederic Dorr Steele is an American illustrator best known for his work on the Sherlock Holmes stories.Steele, a descendant of William Bradford , was born on 6 August 1873 at Eagle Mills, Marquette, Michigan, and studied at the National Academy of Design and elsewhere in New York City...

  • William Steig
    William Steig
    William Steig was a prolific American cartoonist, sculptor and, later in life, an author of popular children's literature...

  • Saul Steinberg
    Saul Steinberg
    Saul Steinberg was a Romanian-born American cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his work for The New Yorker.-Biography:...

  • William Stobbs
    William Stobbs
    William Stobbs was an author and illustrator. From 1950 to 1958, he served as the head of the design department at the London School of Printing and Kindred Trades....

  • Barron Storey
    Barron Storey
    Barron Storey is an art teacher and artist. He is famous for his accomplishments as an illustrator and fine artist, and for his influence on several professional illustrators and writers, including Bill Sienkiewicz, Dave McKean, Simon Bisley, Bill Koeb, Kent Williams, George Pratt...

  • Drew Struzan
    Drew Struzan
    Drew Struzan is an American artist known for his more than 150 movie posters, which include all the films in the Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and Star Wars film series. He has also painted album covers, collectibles, and book covers.- Early life and education :Drew Struzan was born in Oregon...

  • Arthur Suydam
    Arthur Suydam
    Arthur Suydam is an American comic book artist and musician. He has done artwork for magazines including Heavy Metal, Epic Illustrated and National Lampoon, while his comic book work includes Batman, Conan, Tarzan, Predator, Aliens, Death Dealer, and Marvel Zombies.-Illustration:Suydam has...

  • Hiromi Suzuki
  • Glynis Sweeny
    Glynis Sweeny
    Glynis Sweeny is an American illustrator and caricaturist who is known for lampooning political and business figures in newspapers, newsweeklies, and consumer magazines....

  • Zsuzsa Szikra
    Zsuzsa Szikra
    Zsuzsa Szikra is a Hungarian painter whose works are marked by their poetic abstract character. She is also well known for her portraits...

     Hungarian book illustrator and painter

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  • Prentiss Taylor
    Prentiss Taylor
    Prentiss Taylor was an American illustrator, lithographer, and painter. He was a strong figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Among his many friends from that era is Langston Hughes, whom Taylor illustrated many of his publications. Also among his close friends was the photographer Carl Van Vechten...

  • Sir John Tenniel
    John Tenniel
    Sir John Tenniel was a British illustrator, graphic humorist and political cartoonist whose work was prominent during the second half of England’s 19th century. Tenniel is considered important to the study of that period’s social, literary, and art histories...

  • Henri Thiriet
    Henri Thiriet
    Henri Thiriet aka Henry Thiriet was a prolific French poster artist, book illustrator and painter. Although responsible for many memorable posters, almost nothing is known about Thiriet's life and career. He painted in a flamboyant Art Nouveau style, using its characteristic curves and swirls, and...

  • Margot Tomes
    Margot Tomes
    Margot Ladd Tomes was an artist and children's book illustrator. In 1977 Jack and the Wonder Beans, which she illustrated was cited by The New York Times as one of the best Children's books of the year; a feat she repeated in 1984 with If There Were Dreams to Sell.-Life and career:She was born in ...

  • Alton S. Tobey
  • Wallace Tripp
    Wallace Tripp
    Wallace Whitney Tripp is an American illustrator, anthologist and author. He is known for creating anthropomorphic animal characters of emotional complexity and for his great visual and verbal humor. He is one of several illustrators of the Amelia Bedelia series of children's stories...

  • Tasha Tudor
  • Michael Turner
    Michael Turner (illustrator)
    Michael Turner is a British illustrator who specialises in motoring and aviation paintings. He is regarded as one of the early examples of such type and is one of the most highly regarded of all. Turner counts racing drivers, teams, sponsors, pilots, motor and aircraft manufacturers, R.A.F...

  • Dick Twinney
    Dick Twinney
    Dick Twinney is an English illustrator and wildlife artist. Originally from Devon, he has lived and worked in Cornwall for over 35 years.His work appears frequently in Westcountry magazines and newspapers, especially the Cornish Guardian where he writes and illustrates the weekly article 'Wildlife...

  • Nicomi Nix Turner
    Nicomi Nix Turner
    - Nicomi Nix Turner :Nicomi "Nix" Turner is a San Francisco based illustrator, recognized for her intricately detailed botanical-scapes, Esoteric symbolism, provocative renderings of The Sacred Feminine, and "Anatomical Deconstructionism"...


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  • Boris Vallejo
    Boris Vallejo
    Boris Vallejo is a Peruvian-born American painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1964, and he currently resides in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He frequently works with Julie Bell, his wife, painter, and model....

  • Chris Van Allsburg
    Chris Van Allsburg
    Chris Van Allsburg is an American author and illustrator of children's books. He twice won the Caldecott Medal, for Jumanji and The Polar Express , both of which he wrote and illustrated, and both of which were later adapted into successful motion pictures...

  • Alberto Vargas
    Alberto Vargas
    Alberto Vargas was a noted Peruvian painter of pin-up girls. He is often considered one of the most famous of the pin-up artists...

  • Gee Vaucher
    Gee Vaucher
    Gee Vaucher is a visual artist who was born in 1945 in Dagenham, East London.Her work with Anarcho-punk band Crass was seminal to the 'protest art' of the 1980s. Vaucher has always seen her work as a tool for social change. In her collection of early works Crass Art and Other Pre Post-Modernist...

  • Max Velthuijs
    Max Velthuijs
    Max Velthuijs was a Dutch painter, illustrator and author. He was one of the most famous children's illustrators in the Netherlands. In 2004 he received the Hans Christian Andersen Award for illustrators....

  • Emilio Vilà
    Emilio Vilà (artist)
    Emilio Vilà was a Spanish artist and poster illustrator born in a small village in Catalonia called Llagostera. He studied in Llagostera for some years, and later in Barcelona. Because of the Spanish Civil War, he had to move to France , where he worked as a painter and poster illustrator. He...


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  • Dugald Stewart Walker
    Dugald Stewart Walker
    Dugald Stewart Walker was an early twentieth century illustrator. He was a native of Richmond, Virginia, and studied in Virginia and at the New York School of Design...

  • Ernest Wallcousins
  • Charles Waterhouse
    Charles Waterhouse (artist)
    Charles Waterhouse is an American painter, illustrator and sculptor renowned for using United States Marine Corps historical themes as the motif for his works. His art spans subjects from Tun Tavern, the birthplace of the U. S...

  • Robert Weaver
    Robert Weaver (illustrator)
    Robert Weaver was an American illustrator who was considered the pioneer of a contemporary approach to the field that began in the 1950s. Beginning in 1952, he embarked on a mission to combine the visual ideas found in fine art with the responsibility of journalist...

  • Emil Weiss
    Emil Weiss
    Emil Weiss Illustrator, one of the last “press artists” -Biography:...

  • Jack Welch
    Jack Welch (illustrator)
    Jack Welch was an American illustrator known for his drawings and gouache paintings of droll family activities and his cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators....

  • Don Weller
    Don Weller
    Don Weller is an American illustrator and painter. He did covers for Time Magazine, TV Guide and illustrated stories in Sports Illustrated, Boys' Life, Pro, and Readers Digest. He also designed posters for the NFL, The Rose Bowl, and 1984 L.A. Olympics. He has also taught at UCLA and The Art Center...

  • Michael Whelan
    Michael Whelan
    Michael Whelan is an American artist of imaginative realism. For more than 30 years he worked as an illustrator specializing in science fiction and fantasy cover art...

  • Jon Whitcomb
    Jon Whitcomb
    Jon Whitcomb was an American illustrator. He was well-known for his pictures of glamorous young women. He was born in Weatherford, Oklahoma and grew up in Manitowoc, Wisconsin...

  • Robert Williams
    Robert Williams (artist)
    Robert Williams is an American painter, cartoonist, and founder of Juxtapoz Art & Culture Magazine.Williams was part of the Zap Collective, along with other underground cartoonists such as Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton...

  • Charles Banks Wilson
    Charles Banks Wilson
    Charles Banks Wilson is an American artist. Wilson was born in Arkansas in 1918, his family eventually moving to Miami, Oklahoma, where he spent his childhood...

  • David Wisniewski
    David Wisniewski
    David Wisniewski , was a children's author and illustrator.He attended the University of Maryland, College Park but quit after one semester to join the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College, graduating in 1973...

  • Jonathan Wolstenholme
    Jonathan Wolstenholme
    Jonathan Wolstenholme is a British artist and illustrator.He attended Purley Grammar School before graduating from Croydon Art College ....

  • Ashley Wood
    Ashley Wood
    Ashley Wood is an Australian comic book artist and illustrator who is well known for his cover art, concept design and his work as an art director....

  • Leslie Wood
    Leslie Wood (illustrator)
    Leslie Wood is an English artist and illustrator, now living in Poynton, Cheshire.He studied at the Manchester College of Art and Design and gained a travelling scholarship. Prevented from travelling abroad because of World War II, he instead went to London...

  • Frank Wu
    Frank Wu
    Frank Wu is a science fiction and fantasy artist living in Arlington, MA. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Artist in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2009; he was previously nominated in 2002 and 2003. He also won the Grand Prize in the Illustrators of the Future contest in 2000. In 2008 he was nominated...

  • N. C. Wyeth
    N. C. Wyeth
    Newell Convers Wyeth , known as N.C. Wyeth, was an American artist and illustrator. He was the pupil of artist Howard Pyle and became one of America's greatest illustrators...


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