A caricaturist is an artist who specializes in drawing

caricature A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon). Caricatures can be either insulting or complimentary, a ...

List of caricaturists

* Abed Abdi (born 1942) * Al Hirschfeld (1903–2003) * Alex Gard (1900–1948) * Alexander Saroukhan (1898–1977) * Alfred Grévin (1827–1892) * Alfred Schmidt (1858–1938) * Amédée de Noé, also known as Cham (1818–1879) * Amnon David Ar (born 1973) * Andre Gill (1840–1885) *

Angelo Torres Angelo Torres (born April 14, 1932, in Santurce, Puerto Rico) is an American cartoonist and caricaturist whose work has appeared in many noteworthy comic books, as well as a long-running regular illustrator for '' Mad''. EC Comics Torres was fr ...

(born 1932) *

Arifur Rahman Arifur Rahman (born August 8, 1984) is a Bangladeshi- Norwegian political cartoonist, illustrator and animator. He is a self-taught cartoonist who is renowned for his contribution to cartoons both on the internet and in print media. In Banglades ...

(born 1984) * Arthur Good (1853–1928) * Aurelius Battaglia (1910–1984) * Lluís Bagaria (1882–1940) * Bill Plympton (born 1946) * Bob Staake (born 1957) *

Boris Yefimov Boris Yefimovich Yefimov (russian: Бори́с Ефи́мович Ефи́мов; ,The birth record of Boris Fridlyand (Boris Yefimov) in the metric book of the Kiev rabbinate for 1900 ( ЦГИАК Украины. Ф. 1164. Оп. 1. Д. 454. Л. ...

(1899–2008) * Bruce Stark (1933–2012) * Cabu (1938–2015) * Carlo Pellegrini (1839–1889) * Cem Kiziltug (born 1974) * Charles Williams (1798–1830) * Dan Dunn (born 1957) *

Daniel Stieglitz Daniel Stieglitz (born 4 March 1980 in Cham, (Germany)) is a caricature artist, director and writer. He studied animation, illustration and filmmaking at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in Hessia and graduated with the 45min movie "Spielzeugland Endst ...

(born 1980) *

David Levine David Levine (December 20, 1926 – December 29, 2009) was an American artist and illustrator best known for his caricatures in ''The New York Review of Books''. Jules Feiffer has called him "the greatest caricaturist of the last half of th ...

(1926–2009) * Sir David Low (1891–1963) * Don Barclay (1892–1975) *

Donald Bevan Donald Joseph Bevan (January 16, 1920 Holyoke, Massachusetts – May 29, 2013 Studio City, California) was an American playwright whose works include the Broadway play ''Stalag 17'', co-written with Edmund Trzcinski, and adapted as a movie in 195 ...

(1920–2013) * Drew Friedman * Dušan Petričić (born 1946) * Edmund S. Valtman (1914–2005) *

Emad Hajjaj Emad Hajjaj ( ar, عماد حجاج) is a Palestinian-Jordanian editorial cartoonist. He is best known for his work in '' Al Ra'i'' and the '' Jordan Times'' daily newspapers. Early life Emad was born in Jordan's West Bank in 1967. He received h ...

(born 1967) *

Émile Cohl Émile Eugène Jean Louis Cohl (; né Courtet; 4 January 1857 – 20 January 1938) was a French caricaturist of the largely forgotten Incoherent Movement, cartoonist, and animator, called "The Father of the Animated Cartoon" and "The Oldest Par ...

(1857–1938) * Emilio Coia (1911–1997) * GAL (born 1940) * Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, also known as

Nadar Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (5 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first perso ...

(1820–1910) * Gavin Bell (born 1971) *

George Bahgoury George Abdel Masih Al Bahgoury or George Bahgoury (جورج البهجورى) is an Egyptian-French artist. An accomplished painter and sculptor, he is most famous as a caricaturist and political cartoonist. Life and career Bahgoury was born i ...

(born 1932) *

George Bickham the Younger George Bickham the Younger (c. 1706–1771) was an English etcher and engraver, a printseller, and one of the first English caricaturists. He produced didactic publications, political caricatures, and pornographical prints. He was the son of th ...

(c. 1706–1771) *

George Cruikshank George Cruikshank (27 September 1792 – 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern William Hogarth, Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other ...

(1792–1880) *

George Moutard Woodward George Murgatroyd Woodward (1765–1809) was an English caricaturist and humor writer. He was a friend and drinking companion of Thomas Rowlandson. Biography Woodward was born in Stanton Hall, in Stanton by Dale in Derbyshire, England the son o ...

(c. 1760–1809) * George Wachsteter (1911–2004) * Georges Goursat (1863–1934) *

Gerald Scarfe Gerald Anthony Scarfe (born 1 June 1936) is an English cartoonist and illustrator. He has worked as editorial cartoonist for ''The Sunday Times'' and illustrator for ''The New Yorker''. His other work includes graphics for rock group Pink Flo ...

(born 1936) *

Gerhard Haderer Gerhard Haderer (; born 1951 in Leonding, Austria) is an Austrian cartoonist and caricaturist. His brother Josef Haderer was a professional footballer. Early life Haderer studied at a technical art school in Linz for four years from 1965, and ...

(born 1951) * Glen Hanson *

Glynis Sweeny Glynis Sweeny (born 1962) is an American illustrator and caricaturist who is known for lampooning political and business figures in newspapers, newsweeklies, and consumer magazines. Sweeny graduated with a degree in graphic design from Rochester I ...

(born 1962) *

György Rózsahegyi György Rózsahegyi (1940-2010) was a Hungarian caricaturist and painter. His life György Rózsahegyi was born in Budapest, Hungary on 21 November 1940. His father, ''Jenő Rózsahegyi'' was a world-wide known, professional boxing champion, ...

(1940–2010) *

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Comte Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the l ...

(1864–1901) * Henry Bateman (1887–1970) * Henry Bunbury (1750–1811) *

Henry Wigstead Henry Wigstead (died 1800) was an English Magistrate, publisher, businessman, amateur painter & caricaturist. He was a patron and close personal friend of Thomas Rowlandson, whom he accompanied on sketching trips to the Isle of Wight (1784), Brigh ...

(died 1800) *

Hermann Mejia Hermann or Herrmann may refer to: * Hermann (name), list of people with this name * Arminius, chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe in the 1st century, known as Hermann in the German language * Éditions Hermann, French publisher * Hermann, M ...

(born 1973) *

Honoré Daumier Honoré-Victorin Daumier (; February 26, 1808February 10, 1879) was a French painter, sculptor, and printmaker, whose many works offer commentary on the social and political life in France, from the Revolution of 1830 to the fall of the second N ...

(1808–1879) * Isa Macnie (1869–1958) *

Isaac Cruikshank Isaac Cruikshank ( bapt. 14 October 1764 1811) was a Scottish painter and caricaturist, known for his social and political satire. Biography Cruikshank was the son of Andrew Crookshanks ( 1725 c. 1783), a former customs inspector, dispossess ...

(1786–1856) * Jack Davis (1924–2016) *

Jacques Callot Jacques Callot (; – 1635) was a baroque printmaker and draftsman from the Duchy of Lorraine (an independent state on the north-eastern border of France, southwestern border of Germany and overlapping the southern Netherlands). He is an imp ...

(1592–1635) *

James Gillray James Gillray (13 August 1756Gillray, James and Draper Hill (1966). ''Fashionable contrasts''. Phaidon. p. 8.Baptism register for Fetter Lane (Moravian) confirms birth as 13 August 1756, baptism 17 August 1756 1June 1815) was a British caricatu ...

(1756–1815) *

James Sayers James Sayers (or Sayer) (1748 – April 20, 1823) was an English caricaturist . Many of his works are described in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum which h ...

(1748–1825) *

Jaume Capdevila Kap (Jaume Capdevila) was born in 1974 in Berga, Barcelona, Spain. He is a cartoonist and caricaturist in some journals of Barcelona: La Vanguardia and El Mundo Deportivo among others. He also draws for websites, such as El último mono Garabatola ...

, "Kap" (born 1974) * Javad Alizadeh (born 1953) * J.J. Grandville (1803–1847) * Jean-Pierre Dantan (1800–1869) *

Jeff Hook Geoffrey Raynor Hook (27 December 1928 – 20 July 2018) was an Australian artist and editorial cartoonist. Hook was married to Pauline from 1961 and had five children. Career After attending St Virgil's College, Hobart, Hook started as a cad ...

(1928–2018)de Becker, Paul (1991). CARTOONS 1991 International Cartoon Festival Knokke-Heist. Belgium: Davidsfonds/Leuven. *

Jim McDermott James Adelbert McDermott (born December 28, 1936) is an American politician and psychiatrist who was the U.S. representative for from 1989 to 2017. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The 7th District includes most of Seattle, Vashon Is ...

(born 1960) *

Joe Grant Joe Grant (May 15, 1908 – May 7, 2005) was an American artist and writer. Biography Born in New York City, Grant worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios as a character designer and story artist beginning in 1932 on the Mickey Mouse sh ...

(1908–2005) * John Doyle (1797–1868) * John Kay (1742–1826) * John Leech (1817–1864) *

John Tenniel Sir John Tenniel (; 28 February 182025 February 1914)Johnson, Lewis (2003), "Tenniel, John", ''Grove Art Online, Oxford Art Online'', Oxford University Press. Web. Retrieved 12 December 2016. was an English illustrator, graphic humorist and pol ...

(1820–1914) * Jovan Prokopljević (born 1940) * Karl Meersman (born 1961) *

Kate Carew Mary Williams (June 27, 1869 – February 11, 1961), who wrote pseudonymously as Kate Carew, was an American caricaturist self-styled as "The Only Woman Caricaturist". She worked at the ''New York World'', providing illustrated celebrity int ...

(1869–1961) * Ken Fallin (born 1948) *

Kenny Meadows Joseph Kenny Meadows, (November 1790–August 1874) better known as Kenny Meadows, was a British caricaturist and illustrator. He is best known for the drawings that he contributed to ''Punch'' and for his illustrations of scenes from Shakespear ...

(1790–1874) * Kerry G. Johnson (born 1966) * Kerry Waghorn (born 1947) * Louis Hirshman (1905–1986) * Luigi Borgomainerio (1836–1876) * Malky McCormick (1943–2019) *

Marc Sleen Marcel Honoree Nestor ( ridder) Neels (30 December 1922 – 6 November 2016), known as Marc Sleen, was a Belgian cartoonist. He was mostly known for his comic '' The Adventures of Nero and Co.'', but also created gag comics like ''Piet Fluwijn ...

(1922–2016) * Marjorie Organ (1886–1930) *

Massoud Mehrabi Massoud Mehrabi (1954 – 31 August 2020) was an Iranian journalist, writer and caricaturist. He studied cinema at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts of the University of Art (1977–1982). and later passed a Film Production Management course at th ...

(1954–2020) *

Max Beerbohm Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm (24 August 1872 – 20 May 1956) was an English essayist, Parody, parodist and Caricature, caricaturist under the signature Max. He first became known in the 1890s as a dandy and a humorist. He was the drama critic ...

(1872–1956) * Melchiorre Delfico (1825–1895) *

Mort Drucker Morris "Mort" Drucker (March 22, 1929 – April 9, 2020) was an American caricaturist and comics artist best known as a contributor for over five decades in '' Mad'', where he specialized in satires on the leading feature films and televisi ...

(1929–2020) *

Murray Webb Murray George Webb (born 22 June 1947 in Invercargill) is a prominent New Zealand caricature artist and a former New Zealand Test cricketer. Cricket career Six feet four inches tall, Murray Webb was a fast bowler who played first-class cricket ...

(born 1947) *

Nikolai Stepanov Nikolai Alexandrovich Stepanov (russian: link=no, Николай Александрович Степанов, 3 May 1807, Kaluga, Russian Empire, – 5 December 1877, Moscow, Russian Empire) was an artist, caricaturist and editor from the Russian ...

(1807–1877) * Oğuz Aral (1936–2004) *

Osama Hajjaj Osama Eid Hajjaj ( ar, أسامة حجاج) is a Jordanian cartoonist, born in Amman in 1973. Life and career Osman Hajjaj was born in Amman, Jordan in 1973. He has worked for various daily newspapers in Jordan, such as '' Ad-Dustour'' and '' Al ...

(born 1973) * Oscar Berger (1901–1997) * Omaya Joha (born 1972) * Patrick Oliphant (born 1935) *

Paul Gavarni Paul Gavarni was the pen name of Sulpice Guillaume Chevalier (13 January 1804 – 24 November 1866), a French illustrator, born in Paris. Early career Gavarni's father, Sulpice Chevalier, was from a family line of coopers from Burgundy. Paul be ...

(1804–1866) * Pedro X. Molina *

Peggy Bacon Margaret Frances Bacon (May 2, 1895 – January 4, 1987) was an American artist, best known for her satirical caricatures. Bacon studied under Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League of New York, where she taught herself drypoint and ...

(1895–1987) * Philip Burke (born 1956) *

Pier Leone Ghezzi Pier Leone Ghezzi (28 June 1674 – 6 March 1755) was an Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome. Biography Ghezzi was born and died in Rome. He trained under his father, Giuseppe Ghezzi, who also trained Antonio Amorosi. ...

(1674–1755) * Prakash Shetty (born 1960) *

Predrag Koraksić Corax Predrag Koraksić Corax ( sr, Предраг Кораксић Коракс; born 15 June 1933) is a Serbian political caricaturist. Name signature He writes his signature Corax using Latin characters and spelling. Biography Koraksić was born on ...

(born 1933) *

Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (21 March 1846 – 23 January 1905; spelled Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro in older Portuguese orthography) was a Portuguese artist known for his illustration, caricatures, sculpture, and ceramics designs. Bordalo Pinhei ...

(1846–1905) *

Ralph Steadman Ralph Idris Steadman (born 15 May 1936) is a British illustrator best known for his collaboration and friendship with the American writer Hunter S. Thompson. Steadman is renowned for his political and social caricatures, cartoons and picture b ...

(born 1936) *

Ranan Lurie Ranan R. Lurie ( he, רענן לוריא; May 26, 1932 – June 8, 2022) was an Israeli-American political cartoonist and journalist, a senior associate at the CSIS (Center for Strategic and International Studies) since 1990,Raoul Hunter Raoul Hunter (June 18, 1926 – December 10, 2018) was a Canadian sculptor and caricaturist. Biography Born in Saint-Cyrille-de-Lessard, l'Islet, Quebec, Canada, Hunter studied at l’École des Beaux-Arts de Québec and at the École nation ...

(1926–2018) * Richard Newton (1777–1798) *

Robert Grossman Robert Grossman (March 1, 1940 – March 15, 2018) was an American painter, sculptor, filmmaker, comics artist, illustrator and author. In a career spanning fifty years, Grossman's illustrations have appeared over 500 times on the covers of var ...

(1940–2018) * Robert Risko (born 1956) *

Ronald Searle Ronald William Fordham Searle, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE, Royal Designers for Industry, RDI (3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011) was an English artist and satirical cartoonist, comics artist, sculptor, medal designer and i ...

(1920–2011) * S. Jithesh (born 1974) *

Sam Berman Sam Berman (July 27, 1907 – August 11, 1995) was an American caricaturist of the 1940s and 1950s. Berman was in high school when he began drawing cartoons for the ''Hartford Courant''. He went to New York to study art and then landed a positio ...

(1906–1995) * Sam Norkin (1917–2011) * Sam Viviano (born 1953) * Sebastian Krüger (born 1963) * Seyran Caferli (born 1966) *

Shawn McManus Shawn McManus (born June 30, 1958) is an Americans, American artist who has worked extensively over three decades for DC Comics and other companies, notably for DC's Vertigo (DC Comics), Vertigo imprint including the ''Fables (comics), Fables'' ...

(born 1958) *

Shekhar Gurera Lalit Kala Academy Shekhar Gurera, or Chander Shekhar Gurera, is an Indian editorial cartoonist, illustrator, and graphic designer. He publishes regular cartoons with comments about India's political and social trends. His daily pocket cartoons ...

, India (born 1965) *

Stephen Rotluanga Stephen Rotluanga, is a Mizo people, Mizo Catholic prelate, dramatist, painter, sculptor, cartoonist, and caricaturist who is serving as the second and current Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aizawl. He was consecrated in 2002, becoming t ...

(born 1952) * Steve Bell (born 1951) *

Steve Brodner Steve Brodner (born October 19, 1954, in Brooklyn, New York) is a satirical illustrator and caricaturist working for publications in the US since the 1970s. He is accepted in the fields of journalism and the graphic arts as a master of the edito ...

(born 1954) *

Thomas Nast Thomas Nast (; ; September 26, 1840December 7, 1902) was a German-born American caricaturist and editorial cartoonist often considered to be the "Father of the American Cartoon". He was a critic of Democratic Representative "Boss" Tweed and t ...

(1840–1902) *

Thomas Rowlandson Thomas Rowlandson (; 13 July 175721 April 1827) was an English artist and caricaturist of the Georgian Era, noted for his political satire and social observation. A prolific artist and printmaker, Rowlandson produced both individual social an ...

(1756–1827) * Tom Bachtell (born 1957) * Tom Richmond (born 1966) * Vitaliy Peskov (1944–2002) (Russian: Виталий Песков) * Vyvyan Donner (1895–1965)Democrat-Times staff (May 4, 1956)
"Miss Vyvyan Donner to Be Guest at Delta Council Meeting in Cleveland"
''The Delta-Democrat-Times''. p. 3. Retrieved July 5, 2021. * William Auerbach-Levy (1889–1964) * William Austin (1721–1820) * William Heath (1794–1840) *

William Hogarth William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-lik ...

(1697–1764) *

Wyncie King Wyncie King (1884–1961) was an American illustrator, cartoonist, and caricaturist. Life He was an illustrator for the ''Louisville Courier-Journal'' and the ''Louisville Herald''. He married Hortense Flexner (1885–1973). They moved to Phi ...

(1884–1961)

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