"Top without Actually Falling Apart"". The figure quickly became a staple of Vicky’s output and ""Supermac"" (mostly spelt without a hyphen) was widely and enduringly applied as a nickname for Macmillan. Though initially an ironic coinage, it soon rebounded to Macmillan’s advantage, becoming an integral part of his image. D. R. Thorpe's biography of Macmillan (2010) was entitled ""Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan"". In a subsequent cartoon, a cinema named the ""Torytz"" (after ""Tory"") was portrayed with posters proclaiming ""Supermac - He's terrific - He's stupendous ... A super-colossal-top-production in true-blue colour"". The Conservative Party Chairman, Quintin Hogg, Viscount"
"Hal Sherman Hal Sherman (born Harold Sicherman, May 31, 1911; died January 25, 2009) was a gag cartoonist and a Platinum Age and Golden Age comic book artist. He is best remembered for his work on the Star-Spangled Kid, which he co-created with Jerry Siegel, who had previously co-created Superman. Sherman did gag cartooning for magazines, including ""College Laughs"". During the 1950s, he created cartoons for cocktail napkins published by Monogram of California. His napkin sets include ""Double Feature"", which were two-panel cartoons, one on the outside of the napkin, one that appeared when you unfolded it (1955); ""Little Friar"","
"Gene Colan Eugene Jules ""Gene"" Colan (; September 1, 1926 – June 23, 2011) was an American comic book artist best known for his work for Marvel Comics, where his signature titles include the superhero series ""Daredevil"", the cult-hit satiric series ""Howard the Duck"", and ""The Tomb of Dracula"", considered one of comics' classic horror series. He co-created the Falcon, the first African-American superhero in mainstream comics, and the non-costumed, supernatural vampire hunter Blade, who went on to appear in a series of films starring Wesley Snipes. Colan was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in"
"Floyd MacMillan Davis Floyd MacMillan Davis (April 8, 1896 - October 25, 1966) was an American painter and illustrator known for his work in advertising and illustration; Walter and Roger Reed described him as ""someone who could capture the rich, beautiful people of the 1920s: dashing, mustachioed men; the cool, svelte women. But Davis was just as capable at capturing just-plain-folk, and with a cartoonist's sensibilities and a fresh humor, he expanded into story art and ad work that called characters of every persuasion. By the early 1940s, he was recognized as the top man in both fields. In 1943,"
"County, Florida, at the time of his death on September 20, 2006. Ernie Schroeder Ernest C. Schroeder (January 9, 1916 – September 20, 2006) was an American comic book artist, a commercial illustrator, and a sculptor, best known for drawing and co-writing Hillman Periodicals' influential muck-monster the Heap from 1949 to 1953. Other characters with which Schroeder is associated include Hillman's Airboy and Harvey Comics' Shock Gibson and Spirit of '76. In a 2004 interview, Schroeder described a family life in which his future father was a West Point graduate and Spanish–American War veteran who after that conflict settled in"
"Malky McCormick Malky McCormick (born 1943 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a cartoonist and caricaturist. After leaving the commercial art world in 1965, he illustrated comics and magazines for D.C. Thomson in Dundee then became a graphic artist and designer with Scottish Television for 3 years. In 1975, along with friend and fellow banjo player Billy Connolly, he devised and wrote the hugely successful cartoon strip, The Big Yin for the Sunday Mail. Since then McCormick has contributed to many Scottish and UK national newspapers including The Sun, Daily Record, Daily Express, Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph and New Statesman. His work"
"Harold Macmillan Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton, (10 February 1894 – 29 December 1986) was a British statesman and Conservative Party politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed ""Supermac"", he was known for his pragmatism, wit and unflappability. Macmillan served in the Grenadier Guards during the First World War. He was wounded three times, most severely in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. He spent the rest of the war in a military hospital unable to walk, and suffered pain and partial immobility for the rest of his"
"opportunity as an editorial assistant at XS- magazine/City Link, an alt-newsweekly. By 1999, McMillan began self-syndicating her cartoons, as well as providing exclusive comic features and illustrations for hundreds of publications worldwide. Her work has appeared in the ""Los Angeles Times"", ""Daily Beast"", ""South Florida Sun-Sentinel"", ""Yes! Magazine"", ""Comic Relief"", ""Amarillo Globe-News"", ""Funny Times"", Yahoo.com, and the ""San Francisco Bay Guardian"". Beyond her professional cartooning, McMillan has been an organizer against capitalism and imperialism all her life. The groups she has worked with include One Struggle, Refuse and Resist!, the Occupy movement throughout the country, U.S. Hands Off the Haitian"
"film ""The Eternal Jew"" (1940). Stanley McMurtry Stanley McMurtry MBE (born 4 May 1936), known by his pen name Mac, is a British cartoonist. McMurtry is best known for his work for the British ""Daily Mail"" newspaper. McMurtry studied at the Birmingham College of Art. He adopted the pen name ""Mac"" while working as a cartoonist for the ""Daily Sketch"" in the 1960s. That publication was absorbed by the ""Daily Mail"" in the 1970s, and McMurtry has worked there since. Mac was granted an MBE in the 2003 New Year's honours list for ""services to the newspaper industry"". McMurtry views"
"Malcolm Hancock Malcolm ""Mal"" Hancock (May 20, 1936 – February 16, 1993) was an American comics artist and cartoonist, most notable for his work in ""National Review"". Hancock's work was also seen regularly in such publications as Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post motive Magazine, and the Washington Post. He drew many comic strips, including 'Nibbles' (1961–63), 'Humphrey Hush' (1963),'Patrick' (1965–69), 'The Fantastic Foster Fenwick' (1968–72), Polly (1972-73), 'Fenwick' (1977-1979), 'The Lumpits' (1970–78) 'Pig Newton' (1983),'Willie' (1983-85) 'Malfunction Junction]' (1990–93), and 'Hi and Jinx' (1991–93). The Citadel Press, Inc. (NYC) published a book of his earliest cartoons in 1968: 'How Can"
"village of Waterside, near Kilmarnock. Malky McCormick Malky McCormick (born 1943 in Glasgow, Scotland) is a cartoonist and caricaturist. After leaving the commercial art world in 1965, he illustrated comics and magazines for D.C. Thomson in Dundee then became a graphic artist and designer with Scottish Television for 3 years. In 1975, along with friend and fellow banjo player Billy Connolly, he devised and wrote the hugely successful cartoon strip, The Big Yin for the Sunday Mail. Since then McCormick has contributed to many Scottish and UK national newspapers including The Sun, Daily Record, Daily Express, Sunday Times, Sunday Telegraph"
"a scan of Carl Barks' Scrooge McDuck. Films where Barks served as storyman or story director: Barks was an enthusiastic user of Esterbrook pens, and used a Nº 356 model to ink and letter his Donald Duck comic-book pages. Carl Barks Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his comics about Donald Duck and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. In 1987, Barks was one of the"
"Inkpot Award. Comics work includes: George Tuska George Tuska (; April 26, 1916 – October 16, 2009), who early in his career used a variety of pen names including Carl Larson, was an American comic book and newspaper comic strip artist best known for his 1940s work on various Captain Marvel titles and the crime fiction series ""Crime Does Not Pay"", for and his 1960s work illustrating Iron Man and other Marvel Comics characters. As well, he drew the DC Comics newspaper comic strip ""The World's Greatest Superheroes"" from 1978–1982. George Tuska was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the youngest of"
"Gordon Bell (cartoonist) Gordon Bell (1934 – 13 February 2014) was a British cartoonist, best known for humorous strips for D. C. Thomson's weekly comics, including ""Pup Parade"" in ""The Beano"" and ""Spoofer McGraw"" in ""Sparky"". Bell grew up in Dundee, Scotland, where he was educated at Clepington Primary School and Morgan Academy, and studied art at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. He and author Brian Callison ran CB Studios, an art and furniture business, for a time. From the late 1950s he worked as a cartoonist, mainly for D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd, publishers of"
"Fred Harman Fred Harman (February 9, 1902 - January 2, 1982) was an American artist, best known for his popular ""Red Ryder"" comic strip, which he drew for 25 years, reaching 40 million readers through 750 newspapers. Harman sometimes used the pseudonym Ted Horn. Harman was two months old when his parents moved from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, where he grew up familiar with horses and the ranching lifestyle. His father had previously homesteaded in Pagosa in 1891. Harman dropped out of school after seven years and never had any formal art training. Born Leslie Fred Harman,"
"Herby appearing in ""Smitty"". Frank Willard was one of the first members of the National Cartoonists Society, joining two weeks after it was founded in 1932. With his health declining, Willard had little to do with the strip in his last years. After Willard's death in 1958, Johnson continued ""Moon Mullins"" until 1991, when it came to an end. Frank Willard Frank Henry Willard (September 21, 1893, Anna, Illinois–January 11, 1958, Los Angeles, California), was a cartoonist best known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip ""Moon Mullins"" which ran from 1923 to 1991, working alongside assistant Ferd Johnson. He sometimes"
"in the second Foolkiller's van, next to the face of the original user of that identity. Steve Gerber Stephen Ross ""Steve"" Gerber (; September 20, 1947 – February 10, 2008) was an American comic book writer best known for co-creating the satiric Marvel Comics character Howard the Duck and a character-defining run on ""Man-Thing,"" one of their monster properties. Other notable works include ""Omega the Unknown,"" ""Marvel Spotlight:"" ""Son of Satan,"" ""The Defenders,"" ""Marvel Presents:"" ""Guardians of the Galaxy,"" ""Daredevil"" and ""Foolkiller"". Gerber was known for including lengthy text pages in the midst of comic book stories, such as in"
"Winsor McCay Zenas Winsor McCay ( – 1934) was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip ""Little Nemo"" (1905–14; 1924–26) and the animated film ""Gertie the Dinosaur"" (1914). For contractual reasons, he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip ""Dream of the Rarebit Fiend"". From a young age, McCay was a quick, prolific, and technically dextrous artist. He started his professional career making posters and performing for dime museums, and in 1898 began illustrating newspapers and magazines. In 1903 he joined the ""New York Herald"", where he created popular comic strips"
"Ernie Schroeder Ernest C. Schroeder (January 9, 1916 – September 20, 2006) was an American comic book artist, a commercial illustrator, and a sculptor, best known for drawing and co-writing Hillman Periodicals' influential muck-monster the Heap from 1949 to 1953. Other characters with which Schroeder is associated include Hillman's Airboy and Harvey Comics' Shock Gibson and Spirit of '76. In a 2004 interview, Schroeder described a family life in which his future father was a West Point graduate and Spanish–American War veteran who after that conflict settled in the Philippine Islands, and who met Schroeder's future mother, the daughter of"
"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""). 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"
"Mac Raboy Emmanuel ""Mac"" Raboy (April 17, 1914 – December 12, 1967) was an American comics artist best known for his comic-book work on Fawcett Comics' Captain Marvel Jr. and as the Sunday comic-strip artist of ""Flash Gordon"" for more than 20 years. Born in New York City, Raboy began his art career with the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. In the 1940s he began working with the Harry A. Chesler studio of comics artists. Raboy began drawing comic books and gained fame as the illustrator for ""Captain Marvel, Jr."" and the ""Green Lama"". Raboy was a great"
"Harry Hanan Harry Hanan (14 December 1916 - 19 January 1982) was a British cartoonist, best known as the creator of the pantomime comic strip ""Louie"" which he began in 1947. Louie was a small chap, a loser who was constantly annoyed by life's little vicissitudes and minor moments. Hanan described his mild-mannered character as ""the anti-Superman"". Born in Liverpool, Lancashire, England, Harry Hanan went to the Liverpool School of Art and found employment doing layouts and illustrating articles for the ""Liverpool Evening Express"", plus an occasional bonus for drawing a daily cartoon, eventually writing film reviews and serving as"
"George Tuska George Tuska (; April 26, 1916 – October 16, 2009), who early in his career used a variety of pen names including Carl Larson, was an American comic book and newspaper comic strip artist best known for his 1940s work on various Captain Marvel titles and the crime fiction series ""Crime Does Not Pay"", for and his 1960s work illustrating Iron Man and other Marvel Comics characters. As well, he drew the DC Comics newspaper comic strip ""The World's Greatest Superheroes"" from 1978–1982. George Tuska was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the youngest of three children of Russian immigrants"
"Sal Amendola Sal Amendola (born 1948, in Italy) is an Italian American comics artist and teacher primarily known for his association with DC Comics. Sal Amendola started his comics career in 1969, drawing stories for editor Dick Giordano's ""The Witching Hour"", and becoming Giordano's assistant editor in 1970. At DC, Amendola worked in the production department, where he did coloring, inking, lettering, and page headings. He provided artwork on such features as ""Green Arrow"" in ""Action Comics"" and ""John Carter, Warlord of Mars"" in ""Weird Worlds"". He drew spot illustrations for an Aquaman text story in ""Super DC Giant"" #S-26"
"Nick Meglin Nick Meglin (July 30, 1935 – June 2, 2018) was an American writer, humorist, and artist. He was known for his work as a contributor, comics writer, illustrator and editor for the satirical magazine ""Mad"". He also scripted ""Superfan"", a 1970s comic strip by Jack Davis. He was active as a lyricist of musical theatre, and had columns in various specialized magazines about culture and sports. Meglin spent most of his career at ""Mad"", on whose editorial staff he worked for 48 years. His progress can be observed by studying the magazine's masthead, which moved him from ""Ideas"""
"Jack Abel Jack Abel (July 15, 1927 – March 6, 1996) was an American comic book artist best known as an inker for leading publishers DC Comics and Marvel Comics. He was DC's primary inker on the Superman titles in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and inked penciler Herb Trimpe's introduction of the popular superhero Wolverine in ""The Incredible Hulk"" #181 (Nov. 1974). He sometimes used the pseudonym Gary Michaels. Abel's published work stretches to 1951, when he penciled and inked horror stories for such anthology series as Mr. Publications' (Mike Esposito & Ross Andru's company) ""Mister Mystery"", and"
"illustrating 10 days before his death in February 1963. Charles Folkard Charles James Folkard (6 April 1878 – 26 February 1963) was an English illustrator and comics artist. He worked as a conjuror before becoming a prolific illustrator of children’s books. In 1915, he created Teddy Tail, a popular cartoon character who ran in the ""Daily Mail"" newspapers for decades. Folkard is well known for his work on ""The Arabian Nights"", ""Grimms' Fairy Tales"", ""Aesop's Fables"", and ""Pinocchio"". Folkard was born in Lewisham, south London in 1878. He worked for a period of time as a conjuror after attending a"
"Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which also included the work of editorial cartoonists Eric Godal, Arthur Szyk, A. W. MacKenzie and Charles Werner. Stan MacGovern Stan MacGovern (1903 – 1975) was a cartoonist best known for his comic strip ""Silly Milly"" which ran in the ""New York Post"" from the 1930s into the 1950s. Born in New York, MacGovern was the son of George M. Cohan's publicist. His mother performed in light operas. Graduating from high school in 1921, MacGovern began at the ""New York Sun Herald"" as a copy boy in the art department. After a period working as"
"Carl Barks Carl Barks (March 27, 1901 – August 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, author, and painter. He is best known for his comics about Donald Duck and as the creator of Scrooge McDuck. He worked anonymously until late in his career; fans dubbed him The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist. In 1987, Barks was one of the three inaugural inductees of the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame. Barks worked for the Disney Studio and Western Publishing where he created Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck (1947), Gladstone Gander (1948), the"
"Stanley McMurtry Stanley McMurtry MBE (born 4 May 1936), known by his pen name Mac, is a British cartoonist. McMurtry is best known for his work for the British ""Daily Mail"" newspaper. McMurtry studied at the Birmingham College of Art. He adopted the pen name ""Mac"" while working as a cartoonist for the ""Daily Sketch"" in the 1960s. That publication was absorbed by the ""Daily Mail"" in the 1970s, and McMurtry has worked there since. Mac was granted an MBE in the 2003 New Year's honours list for ""services to the newspaper industry"". McMurtry views his role as making ""dreary"
"Frank Willard Frank Henry Willard (September 21, 1893, Anna, Illinois–January 11, 1958, Los Angeles, California), was a cartoonist best known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip ""Moon Mullins"" which ran from 1923 to 1991, working alongside assistant Ferd Johnson. He sometimes went by the nickname Dok Willard. As a youth, Willard dropped out of several schools. In addition to jobs at county fairs, he worked in a mental institution. In 1909, he moved with his family to Chicago. He went to Union Academy, where he illustrated the ""Reflector"" yearbook in 1912. After attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago"
"Stephanie McMillan Stephanie McMillan (born 1965) is an American political cartoonist, editorialist, and activist from South Florida. A granddaughter of the German commercial animator Hans Fischerkoesen, McMillan aspired to become a cartoonist from the age of ten. During her high school years, she began organizing protests against capitalism and imperialism. McMillan graduated from Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1987 with a BFA in film. During her time at NYU, she studied animation under Richard Protovin and John Canemaker, and received an award for her student film. In 1992, McMillan was offered her first professional cartooning"
"gags about a friar (1956); and ""Nudeniks"", cartoons about nudists (1958). During the 1960s, he expanded the Little Friar and the Nudeniks material each into their own full paperback of cartoons. He also drew ""Alley Whoops!"" (1962), a book of bowling cartoons, ""Pennant Laffs"" (1963), a book of punch-out humorous pennants, and ""Fishing for Laughs"" (1964), a volume of fishing cartoons. Sherman and Ann, his wife of over 60 years, are buried together in Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, New York. Hal Sherman Hal Sherman (born Harold Sicherman, May 31, 1911; died January 25, 2009) was a gag cartoonist and"