Among his earliest influences were Punch cartoonist – illustrator Phil May, and American comic strip cartoonists Tad Dorgan, Cliff Sterrett, Rube Goldberg, Rudolph Dirks, Fred Opper, Billy DeBeck, George McManus and Milt Gross.

The three cartoonists were close personal friends and professional associates throughout their adult lives, and occasionally referenced each other in their strips.

In the Golden Age of the American comic strip, successful cartoonists received a great deal of attention ; their professional and private lives were reported in the press, and their celebrity was often nearly sufficient to rival their creations.

Between the 1960s and the late 1980s, as television news relegated newspaper reading to an occasional basis rather than daily, syndicators were abandoning long stories and urging cartoonists to switch to simple daily gags, or week-long " storylines " ( with six consecutive ( mostly unrelated ) strips following a same subject ), with longer storylines being used mainly on adventure-based and dramatic strips.

Bill Hoest and other cartoonists of that decade drew cartoons showing Volkswagens, and these were published along with humorous automotive essays by such humorists as H. Allen Smith, Roger Price and Jean Shepherd.

Also among the early 32 members were syndicated panel cartoonists Dave Breger ( Mister Breger ), George Clark ( The Neighbors ), Bob Dunn ( Just the Type ) and Jimmy Hatlo ( They'll Do It Every Time ); freelance magazine cartoonists Abner Dean and Mischa Richter, editorial cartoonists Rube Goldberg ( New York Sun ), Burris Jenkins ( New York Journal American ), C. D. Batchelor ( Daily News ) and Richard Q. Yardley ( The Baltimore Sun ); sports cartoonist Lou Hanlon ; illustrator Russell Patterson and comic book artists Joe Shuster and Joe Musial.

The cartoonists were Posen, Charles Biro, Bob Dunn, Gus Edson, Bill Holman, Bob Montana, Russell Patterson, Clarence Russell and Dick Wingert ( Hubert ).

Among the outstanding cartoonists of the following century were Bernard Partridge, H. M. Bateman, Bernard Hollowood who also edited the magazine from 1957 to 1968, and Norman Thelwell.

Many of these drawing were the work of Philipp Rupprecht, known as Fips, who was one of the best-known anti-Semitic cartoonists, his virulent attacks wedding " Jewish capitalists " with " Jewish Communism " etc.

Italian American cartoonists were responsible for some of the most popular animated characters.

During this time, Morris and Franquin were coached by Joseph Gillain ( Jijé ), who had transformed a section of his house into a work space for the two young cartoonists and Will.

After the military coup of 1973, some Chilean cartoonists were censored by the military regime, yet unlike other publications ( such as the Argentinian Mafalda ), which combined criticism of society with humor, Condorito, which lacked the former, continued to be published.

Following Herriman's death, the strip was discontinued, unlike most popular strips which were continued by other cartoonists after their creators ' deaths.

Among the illustrators and cartoonists were Ralph Barton, Percy Crosby, Don Herold, Ellison Hoover, H. T. Webster, Art Young and John Held, Jr.

In 1989, inspired by cartoonists such as Dave Sim who were successfully self-publishing their comics, Wagner began publishing Hepcats as a black and white comic book series, under his own Double Diamond Press imprint.

Hates final five issues were 48-page anthologies, featuring a main Buddy Bradley story and then a series of short backup stories by cartoonists such as Rick Altergott, Dame Darcy, and Kevin Scalzo.

Other cartoonists associated with Punk were John Holmstrom, Ken Weiner, and Bruce Carleton ; and Bagge worked on his cartooning with them and also J. D.

During this period, the young cartoonists also were the beneficiaries of " useful advice " from Art Spiegelman.

" Among the better-known contributors were the writers Henry Lawson, Banjo Paterson, Bernard O ' Dowd, Joseph Furphy, Miles Franklin, Harrison Owen, Robert Kaleski and Vance and Nettie Palmer, the cartoonists Livingston Hopkins (" Hop "), David Low, Phil May, D. H. Souter, Norman " Heth " Hetherington, and the illustrator and novelist Norman Lindsay.

The idea of original animated cartoons created by actual cartoonists, and not by TV network executives whose ideas were solely based on toy products and comic books, would not happen again for some 25 years until Spümcø was founded and would eventually make history as the first animation studio of its kind.

John Kricfalusi, Lynne Naylor, Bob Camp and Jim Smith, who all co-founded the company, were cartoonists who were either laid off by animation companies, or willingly decided to quit.

A few short months later, Nickelodeon announced that they were looking for new cartoons created by cartoonists.

On April 10, 1946, Irving Fiske ( born Irving Fishman in Brooklyn, New York, on March 5, 1908 ), a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, and speaker, and his wife, Barbara Hall Fiske, ( born Isabelle Daniel Hall in Tucson, Arizona on September 9, 1919 ), an artist and one of the few female cartoonists of the World War II era, bought of mountain, meadow, and brook land in Rochester, Vermont.

In 1978 Spiegelman, Mouly, and a number of Quarry Hill residents created Top-Drawer Rubber Stamp Company, a pictorial rubber stamp company featuring art by R. Crumb, Spiegelman, and other cartoonists and artists, including Barbara Fiske.

Hall because female cartoonists were not held in high esteem.

When she learned of these chalk talks, she recruited the cartoonists to do shows for the Hospital Committee of the American Theatre Wing.

The National Cartoonists Society had its origins during World War II when cartoonists Gus Edson, Otto Soglow, Clarence D. Russell, Bob Dunn and others did chalk talks at hospitals for the USO in 1943.

The 26 founding members came from the group of 32 members who had paid dues by March 13, including strip cartoonists Wally Bishop ( Muggs and Skeeter ), Martin Branner ( Winnie Winkle ), Ernie Bushmiller ( Nancy ), Milton Caniff, Gus Edson ( The Gumps ), Ham Fisher ( Joe Palooka ), Harry Haenigsen ( Penny ), Fred Harman ( Red Ryder ), Bill Holman ( Smokey Stover ), Jay Irving ( Willie Doodle ), Stan MacGovern ( Silly Milly ), Al Posen ( Sweeney and Son ), Clarence Russell ( Pete the Tramp ), Otto Soglow ( The Little King ), Jack Sparling ( Claire Voyant ), Raeburn Van Buren ( Abbie an ' Slats ), Dow Walling ( Skeets ) and Frank Willard ( Moon Mullins ).

By March 1947, the NCS had 112 members, including Bud Fisher ( Mutt and Jeff ), Don Flowers ( Glamor Girls ), Bob Kane ( Batman ), Fred Lasswell ( Barney Google and Snuffy Smith ), George Lichty ( Grin and Bear It ), Zack Mosley ( The Adventures of Smilin ' Jack ), Alex Raymond ( Rip Kirby ), Cliff Sterrett ( Polly and Her Pals ) and Chic Young ( Blondie ), plus editorial cartoonists Reg Manning and Fred O. Seibel and sports cartoonist Willard Mullin.

They had gotten the club to allow them to use the premises as a meeting place for cartoonists.

" Mickey Mouse " creator, Walt Disney ( 1955 ), had several of his cartoonists duplicate his artistic signature on replies to children seeking his autograph.

Unlike mimeo, ditto had the useful ability to print multiple colors in a single pass, which made it popular with cartoonists.

Moving to Hoboken, New Jersey, he met a group of underground cartoonists such as Peter Bagge and Kazimieras G. Prapuolenis ( Kaz ), and had some of his earliest drawings appearing as Jerseyana in New Jersey Monthly magazine.

The strip has had a lasting influence on a large number of cartoonists.

Spirit duplicators had the useful ability to print multiple colors in a single pass, which made them popular with cartoonists.

His work has had a great deal of influence, particularly on American cartoonists, including Pat Oliphant, Matt Groening, Hilary Knight, and the animators of Disney's 101 Dalmatians.

Kricfalusi had volunteered to give Nickelodeon executives an informative background of cartoonists using storyboards for storytelling in animated cartoons, rather than a script.

Spiegelman was encouraged to contribute the piece by Funny editor Justin Green, who had produced the semi-autobiographical Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary, a seminal work which inspired other underground cartoonists to take the lid off their psyches and produce more personal, revealing work.

" Kochalka strongly believes that simplicity is desirable in comics, and says that " Craft is the enemy ," and has had public debates in print and online with other cartoonists who disagree with his position.

Head shops served as an important outlet for underground newspapers and the underground comix of Robert Crumb and other counterculture cartoonists, which had little access to the established channels of newsstand distribution.

The well-known crescent moon on American outhouses was popularized by cartoonists and had a questionable basis in fact.

Following the portal's creation in March 2000, Keenspot was serving over 23 million page views monthly by February 2001 and had 47 cartoonists.

While he was perceived as idle and aimless by his neighbors during his teen years, and had no formal art training, Davenport ended up becoming one of the highest paid political cartoonists in the world at the time.

He also had a few young cartoonists living with him in Waterloo, thus creating the so-called " School of Marcinelle ": this included André Franquin, Morris, and Will.

He took art classes at Burne Hogarth's Cartoonists and Illustrators School, there befriending future cartoonists Wally Wood and Roy Krenkel, who introduced him to the work of illustrators who had influenced adventure strips.

The first artist to start this look abroad was Katsuhiro Otomo who had a profound effect on both mainstream seinen oriented and alternative cartoonists in Japan.