Which cartoonist and illustrator, best known for his drawings of eccentric machines, was born on May 31st. 1872?
"W. Heath Robinson William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist and illustrator best known for drawings of whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives. In the UK, the term ""Heath Robinson"" entered the popular language during the 1914–1918 First World War as a description of any unnecessarily complex and implausible contrivance, much as ""Rube Goldberg machines"" came to be used in the United States from the 1920s onwards as a term for similar efforts. ""Heath Robinson contraption"" is perhaps more often used in relation to temporary fixes using ingenuity and whatever is to"
"Rube Goldberg Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970), known best as Rube Goldberg, was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor. Goldberg is best known for his popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets performing simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. The cartoons led to the expression ""Rube Goldberg machines"" to describe similar gadgets and processes. Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning in 1948 and the Banshees' Silver Lady Award in 1959. Goldberg was a founding member and first president of the National Cartoonists Society, and the namesake"
"Goldberg, was published by Unity Games (the publishing arm of Unity Technologies) in November 2013. Rube Goldberg Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970), known best as Rube Goldberg, was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer, and inventor. Goldberg is best known for his popular cartoons depicting complicated gadgets performing simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. The cartoons led to the expression ""Rube Goldberg machines"" to describe similar gadgets and processes. Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for political cartooning in 1948 and the Banshees' Silver Lady Award in 1959. Goldberg"
"or collecting his work include: Basil Wolverton Basil Wolverton (July 9, 1909 – December 31, 1978) was an American cartoonist and illustrator, and ""Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet."" His many publishers included Marvel Comics and ""Mad"" magazine. His drawings have elicited a wide range of reactions. Cartoonist Will Elder said he found Wolverton's technique ""outrageously inventive, defying every conventional standard yet upholding a very unusual sense of humor. He was a refreshing original."" But Jules Feiffer stated, ""I don't like his work. I think it's ugly."" He was posthumously inducted into the comic"
"Basil Wolverton Basil Wolverton (July 9, 1909 – December 31, 1978) was an American cartoonist and illustrator, and ""Producer of Preposterous Pictures of Peculiar People who Prowl this Perplexing Planet."" His many publishers included Marvel Comics and ""Mad"" magazine. His drawings have elicited a wide range of reactions. Cartoonist Will Elder said he found Wolverton's technique ""outrageously inventive, defying every conventional standard yet upholding a very unusual sense of humor. He was a refreshing original."" But Jules Feiffer stated, ""I don't like his work. I think it's ugly."" He was posthumously inducted into the comic book industry's Jack Kirby Hall"
"Rowland Emett Frederick Rowland Emett OBE (22 October 190613 November 1990), known as Rowland Emett (with the forename sometimes spelled ""Roland"" [as his middle name appears on his birth certificate] and the surname frequently misspelled ""Emmett""), was an English cartoonist and constructor of whimsical kinetic sculpture. Emett was born in New Southgate, London, the son of a businessman and amateur inventor, and the grandson of Queen Victoria's engraver. He was educated at Waverley Grammar School in Birmingham, where he excelled in drawing, caricaturing his teachers and vehicles and machinery. When he was only 14 he took out a patent on"
"Feature"" #26, December 1983 Russ Manning Russell George Manning (January 5, 1929 – December 1, 1981) was an American comic book artist who created the series ""Magnus, Robot Fighter"" and illustrated such newspaper comic strips as ""Tarzan"" and ""Star Wars"". He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006. Manning studied at the Los Angeles County Art Institute, and later, during his US Army service in Japan, drew cartoons for his military base newspaper. In 1953 he went to work for Western Publishing and illustrated stories for the wide variety of comics published by Western for Dell"
"""Nick was a gentle, modest, humorous man, with none of the usual characteristics of the highly individual genius which inspired his quiet professionalism and supreme technical ability."" Nicolas Bentley Nicolas Clerihew Bentley (14 June 1907 – 14 August 1978) was a British author and illustrator, best known for his humorous cartoon drawings in books and magazines in the 1930s and 1940s. The son of Edmund Clerihew Bentley (inventor of the clerihew verse form), he was given the name Nicholas, but opted to change the spelling. Nicholas Clerihew Bentley was born in Britain on 14 June 1907, at Highgate in London."
"Carl Giles Ronald ""Carl"" Giles OBE (29 September 1916 – 27 August 1995), often referred to simply as Giles, was a cartoonist best known for his work for the British newspaper the ""Daily Express"". His cartoon style was a single topical highly detailed panel, usually with a great deal more going on than the single joke. Certain recurring characters achieved a great deal of popularity, particularly the extended Giles family, which first appeared in a published cartoon on 5 August 1945 and featured prominently in the strip. Of these, the most remembered is the enigmatic matriarch of the family, known"
"Irwin Caplan Irwin Caplan (May 24, 1919 – February 22, 2007), nicknamed Cap, was an American illustrator, painter, designer and cartoonist, best known as the creator of ""The Saturday Evening Post"" cartoon series, ""Famous Last Words"", which led to newspaper syndication of the feature in 1956. Caplan grew up in Seattle's Madison Park neighborhood where his parents took note of his drawings and enrolled him in art classes. As a teenager, Caplan won $10 in a citywide poster contest, and at Garfield High School, he illustrated the 1935 yearbook, ""The Arrow"". He painted murals of a circus and Paul Bunyan"
"Russ Manning Russell George Manning (January 5, 1929 – December 1, 1981) was an American comic book artist who created the series ""Magnus, Robot Fighter"" and illustrated such newspaper comic strips as ""Tarzan"" and ""Star Wars"". He was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2006. Manning studied at the Los Angeles County Art Institute, and later, during his US Army service in Japan, drew cartoons for his military base newspaper. In 1953 he went to work for Western Publishing and illustrated stories for the wide variety of comics published by Western for Dell Comics, and later for"
"C. W. Kahles Charles William Kahles (pronounced Kah'-less) (January 12, 1878 – January 21, 1931) was a prolific cartoonist responsible for numerous comic strips, notably ""Hairbreadth Harry"". He is credited as the pioneer of daily comic strip continuity with his ""Clarence the Cop"", which he drew for the ""New York World"" in the latter 1890s, introducing to newspapers the innovation of continuing a comic strip story in a day-to-day serial format. The cartoonist and comics historian Ernest McGee called Kahles the ""hardest working cartoonist in history, having as many as eight Sunday comics running at one time (1905-06) with no"
"Hugh Doak Rankin Hugh Doak Rankin, born Hugh Dearborn Copp (July 2, 1878— January 3, 1956) was an American artist who illustrated the science fiction magazine ""Weird Tales"" in the 1920s and 1930s. Hugh Dearborn Copp was born in Loda, Illinois, the only surviving son of William H. Copp and Ellen Rankin Copp. His mother was a sculptor. His great-grandparents Jean Lowry Rankin and John Rankin were noted abolitionists and hosts on the Underground Railroad in Ohio. When his parents separated, Ellen and Hugh went to live in Munich and study art. He began using his mother's surname as a"
"Burne Hogarth Burne Hogarth (born Spinoza Bernard Ginsburg, December 25, 1911 – January 28, 1996) was an American cartoonist, illustrator, educator, author and theoretician, best known for his work on the ""Tarzan"" newspaper comic strip and his series of anatomy books for artists. Burne Hogarth was born in Chicago in 1911, the younger son of Pauline and carpenter Max He displayed an early talent for drawing. His father saved these efforts and some years later presented them and the young Hogarth to the registrar at the Art Institute of Chicago. At age 12, Hogarth was admitted, embarking on a formal"
"Rowland Emett to discover more about his remarkable cartoons, artworks and machines"". The Society publishes a newsletter every two months. Rowland Emett Frederick Rowland Emett OBE (22 October 190613 November 1990), known as Rowland Emett (with the forename sometimes spelled ""Roland"" [as his middle name appears on his birth certificate] and the surname frequently misspelled ""Emmett""), was an English cartoonist and constructor of whimsical kinetic sculpture. Emett was born in New Southgate, London, the son of a businessman and amateur inventor, and the grandson of Queen Victoria's engraver. He was educated at Waverley Grammar School in Birmingham, where he excelled"
"Charles Addams Charles Samuel Addams (January 7, 1912 – September 29, 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his darkly humorous and macabre characters. He signed his cartoons Chas Addams. Some of the recurring characters, who became known as the Addams Family, have been the basis for spin-offs in several other forms of media. Addams was born in Westfield, New Jersey. Son of Grace M. (Spear) (1879–1960) and Charles Huey Addams (1882–1963), a piano-company executive who had studied to be an architect, he was known as ""something of a rascal around the neighborhood"" as childhood friends recalled. Addams was distantly"
"EC Comics"" (December 7 – February 11, 1996). John Severin John Powers Severin (; December 26, 1921 – February 12, 2012) was an American comics artist noted for his distinctive work with EC Comics, primarily on the war comics ""Two-Fisted Tales"" and ""Frontline Combat""; for Marvel Comics, especially its war and Western comics; and for his 45-year stint with the satiric magazine ""Cracked"". He was one of the founding cartoonists of ""Mad"" in 1952. Severin was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2003. John Severin was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, of Norwegian and Irish"
"Edward Barker (cartoonist) John Edward Barker (31 May 1950 – 18 April 1997) was an English cartoonist, best known for his work in ""International Times"" and ""The Observer"" in the late 1960s and early 1970s, including the comic strip ""The Largactilites"" (later renamed ""The Galactilites""). He was described as ""the wittiest and most idiosyncratic cartoonist to emerge from the British underground press"". His cartoons were usually signed simply ""Edward"". Born in Birmingham, he studied at Moseley School of Art,and was a regular at the forerunner of MAC, The Midlands Arts Centre for Young People, before joining an avant-garde project, the"
"named after the American cartoonist, Rube Goldberg, whose cartoons often depicted such machines. Rube Goldberg's cartoons became well known for depicting complicated devices that performed simple tasks in indirect convoluted ways. The cartoon above is Goldberg's ""Professor Butts and the Self-Operating Napkin"", which was later reprinted in a few book collections, including the postcard book ""Rube Goldberg's Inventions!"" and the hardcover ""Rube Goldberg: Inventions"", both compiled by Maynard Frank Wolfe from the Rube Goldberg Archives. The term ""Rube Goldberg"" was being used in print to describe elaborate contraptions by 1928, and appeared in the ""Random House Dictionary of the English"
"in Literature in 1905. Bill Sienkiewicz Boleslav William Felix Robert Sienkiewicz ( ; born May 3, 1958), better known as Bill Sienkiewicz, is an American artist known for his work in comic books—particularly for Marvel Comics' ""The New Mutants"", ""Moon Knight,"" and """". Sienkiewicz's work in the 1980s was considered revolutionary in mainstream US comics, due to his highly stylized art that verged on abstraction and made use of oil painting, photorealism, collage, mimeograph, and other forms generally uncommon in comic books. Sienkiewicz was born May 3, 1958, in Blakely, Pennsylvania. When he was five years old, he moved with"
"Peter Jackson (artist) Peter Charles Geoffrey Jackson (4 March 1922, in Brighton – 2 May 2003, in Northwood, London) was a British artist who is noted for his cartoon strip 'London is Stranger Than Fiction' that ran every Wednesday in the London Evening News newspaper. The strip featured quirky and little known historical facts about London in an easy to read illustrated cartoon strip. The strip ran continuously from 1949 until the paper closed for good in 1980. Jackson showed a talent for illustration from childhood. He attended Hove High School and then Willesden School of Art. He submitted some"
"Ted Osborne Theodore H. ""Ted"" Osborne (February 6, 1900 or 1901 – March 12, 1968) was an American writer of comics, radio shows and animated films, remembered for his contributions to the creation and refinement, during the 1930s, of Walt Disney cartoon characters. Ted Osborne was born in Oklahoma. He spent a decade (1931–40) at the Walt Disney Studio as a story writer and, between 1932 and 1937, wrote the ""Mickey Mouse"" newspaper dailies and ""Silly Symphonies"" Sunday comics. These were illustrated by Floyd Gottfredson and Al Taliaferro respectively. With Taliaferro, Osborne has been credited as the co-creator of Huey,"
"Charles and Lambert Martin Veyron Martin Veyron (born 27 March 1950 in Dax, Landes, France) is a French cartoonist, novelist, and comics artist. He is notably best known for his artwork composition with the albums and as well as Editorial cartoons. His style oscillates between the vaudeville disenchanted and the study of mores a little scathing habits slightly bitter in the manner of Gérard Lauzier. Martin Veyron was a high student where he studied at Art Deco school in Paris and graduated at Collège Stanislas de Paris. In 1975, he founded the Imaginon studio with Jean-Claude Denis and Caroline Dillard."
"H. G. Peter Harry George Peter (March 8, 1880 – 1958), usually cited as H. G. Peter, was a newspaper illustrator and cartoonist known for his work on the ""Wonder Woman"" comic book and for Bud Fisher of the ""San Francisco Chronicle"". Harry George Peter was born in San Rafael, California, in 1880, the third of three children. Parents Louis and Louisa Peter were born in France, and his father worked as a tailor. At the age of twenty he drew newspaper illustrations under the name H. G. Peter, while answering to the nicknames ""Harry"" or ""Pete"". Working for the"
"No specific date is given in the story, which appeared in the 1963 paperback book ""Don Martin Bounces Back"". Don Martin (cartoonist) Don Martin (May 18, 1931 – January 6, 2000) was an American cartoonist whose best-known work was published in ""Mad"" from 1956 to 1988. His popularity and prominence were such that the magazine promoted Martin as ""Mad's Maddest Artist."" Born on May 18, 1931 in Paterson, New Jersey, and raised in nearby Brookside and Morristown, Martin studied illustration and fine art at Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts between 1949 and 1951 and subsequently graduated from the"
"Looney Tunes cartoon was released. As Director/Supervisor. Earl Duvall Earl Duvall (; April 2, 1898 – January 7, 1969) was an American artist and animator best known for his work on Walt Disney comic strips in the early 1930s and for a handful of animated short films he directed at Warner Bros. Cartoons. Duvall started as a layout artist and later as a member of the story department at Walt Disney Productions. During this time, he also worked as a cartoonist on the Mickey Mouse dailies and Silly Symphonies Sunday comic strip. Duvall was periodically an inker for Floyd Gottfredson"
"E. H. Shepard Ernest Howard Shepard (10 December 1879 – 24 March 1976) was an English artist and book illustrator. He is known especially for illustrations of the anthropomorphic soft toy and animal characters in ""The Wind in the Willows"" and ""Winnie-the-Pooh"". Shepard was born in St John's Wood, London. Having shown some promise in drawing at St Paul's School, in 1897 he enrolled in the Heatherley School of Fine Art in Chelsea. After a productive year there, he attended the Royal Academy Schools, winning a Landseer scholarship in 1899 and a British Institute prize in 1900. There he met"
"was six years old as of June 2011. Joe Madureira Joe Madureira (often called Joe Mad, born December 1974), is a comic book writer/artist and game developer, best known for his work on Marvel Comics' ""Uncanny X-Men"" and his creator-owned comic book ""Battle Chasers"". Madureira's style combines Western comic book influences (most notably the influence of artist Arthur Adams) though it evolved to incorporate heavy influences from Japanese manga and video games. Joe Madureira was born December 1974 to an American mother and a Portuguese father from the Azores. He attended the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan."
"John Severin John Powers Severin (; December 26, 1921 – February 12, 2012) was an American comics artist noted for his distinctive work with EC Comics, primarily on the war comics ""Two-Fisted Tales"" and ""Frontline Combat""; for Marvel Comics, especially its war and Western comics; and for his 45-year stint with the satiric magazine ""Cracked"". He was one of the founding cartoonists of ""Mad"" in 1952. Severin was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2003. John Severin was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, of Norwegian and Irish descent. He was a teenager in Bay Ridge,"
"Richard F. Outcault Richard Felton Outcault (; January 14, 1863 – September 25, 1928) was an American cartoonist. He was the creator of the series ""The Yellow Kid"" and ""Buster Brown"", and is considered a key pioneer of the modern comic strip. Richard Felton Outcault was born on January 14, 1863, in Lancaster, Ohio, to Catherine Davis and Jesse P. —spelled without the ""u"" their son later added. He attended McMicken University's school of design in Cincinnati from 1878 to 1881, and after graduating did commercial painting for the Hall Safe and Lock Company. Outcault painted electric light displays for"
"Ronnie Cutrone Ronnie Cutrone (July 10, 1948 – July 21, 2013) was an American pop artist known for his large-scale paintings of some of America's favorite cartoon characters, such as Felix the Cat, Pink Panther and Woody Woodpecker. Cutrone's paintings are colorful, lively, and less challenging than those of his contemporaries. As Andy Warhol's assistant at the Factory atop the Decker Building from 1972 until 1980, Cutrone worked with Warhol on paintings, prints, films, and other concepts, eventually co-opting Warhol's earliest work (pre-1960) as well as works by Roy Lichtenstein and others, until finally distilling those myriad influences into the"
"Émile Cohl Émile Cohl (; January 4, 1857 – January 20, 1938), born Émile Eugène Jean Louis Courtet, was a French caricaturist of the largely forgotten Incoherent Movement, cartoonist, and animator, called ""The Father of the Animated Cartoon"" and ""The Oldest Parisian"". Émile's father Elie was a rubber salesman, and his mother, Emilie Laure, was a linen seamstress. The rubber factory Elie worked for had many ups and downs, causing the family to move from one home in Paris to another. Émile saw little of his father during his childhood, and lived with his ailing mother until her death in"
"Fletcher Martin Fletcher Martin (April 19, 1904 – May 30, 1979), was an American painter, illustrator, muralist and educator. He is best known for his images of soldier life during World War II and his sometimes brutal images of boxing and other sports. He was born in 1904 in Palisade, Colorado, one of seven children of newspaperman Clinton Martin and his wife Josephine. The family relocated to Idaho and later Washington. By the age of twelve he was working as a printer. He dropped out of high school and held odd jobs such as lumberjack and professional boxer. He served"