"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"
"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"
"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"
"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"
"""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"
"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"
"Edwin George Lutz Edwin George Lutz (August 26, 1868 - March 30, 1951) was an American artist and author. As an illustrator, he contributed cartoons and human interest articles illustrated with his drawings to several magazines and newspapers. Under the name E.G. Lutz, he authored 17 books. Most were how-to manuals dealing with art and drawing techniques, but two were about aspects of the film industry, which was rapidly developing in the early years of the 20th century. One of his most popular books was ""Drawing Made Easy"" (1921), which was written for young artists. Perhaps his most influential work"
"week from each year represented, with additional random cartoons from each year. (There are no holdings for 1946-47.) The daily cartoons display traces of graphite, blue pencil, Zipatone, brush, pen and ink on illustration board measuring approximately 7 ¼ x 22 ½ inches. Martin Branner Martin Michael Branner (December 28, 1888 – May 19, 1970), known to his friends as Mike Branner, was a cartoonist who created the popular comic strip ""Winnie Winkle"". Branner was born in Manhattan, New York City on December 28, 1888. He was a twin and one of nine children of Bernard Brenner, a Jewish immigrant"
"special exhibitions to mark the 250th anniversary of his death. William Hogarth William Hogarth FRSA (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called ""modern moral subjects"", perhaps best known being his moral series ""A Harlot's Progress"", ""A Rake's Progress"" and ""Marriage A-la-Mode"". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as ""Hogarthian"". Hogarth was born in London to a lower middle-class family. In his youth"
"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"
"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,"
"grâce que je me souhaite !"" Gustave-Henri Jossot Gustave-Henri Jossot, also known as Abdul Karim Jossot (Dijon, France, 16 April 1866 – Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia, 7 April 1951), was a French caricaturist, illustrator, poster designer, Orientalist painter, writer and thinker. Jossot started his career under the guidance of Jean Paul Laurens and Eugène Carrière. His style as a cartoonist is immediately recognizable for its expressive reference to the cloisonism introduced by Émile Bernard. He travelled in Brittany and may have been influenced by the Pont-Aven school. He is mainly remembered for the mark he left on several special issues"
"William Hogarth William Hogarth FRSA (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called ""modern moral subjects"", perhaps best known being his moral series ""A Harlot's Progress"", ""A Rake's Progress"" and ""Marriage A-la-Mode"". Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustrations in this style are often referred to as ""Hogarthian"". Hogarth was born in London to a lower middle-class family. In his youth he took up an apprenticeship where he specialised in engraving."
"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 on the newspaper version of the Mickey"
"Roy Crane Royston Campbell Crane (November 22, 1901 – July 7, 1977), who signed his work Roy Crane, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer. He pioneered the adventure comic strip, establishing the conventions and artistic approach of that genre. Comics historian R. C. Harvey wrote, ""Many of those who drew the earliest adventure strips were inspired and influenced by his work."" Born in Abilene, Texas, Crane grew up in nearby Sweetwater. When he was 14, he took the Charles N. Landon correspondence course in cartooning. He initially attended college"
"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"
"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"
"Stan Cross Stanley George Cross (3 December 1888 – 16 June 1977) was born in the United States but was known as an Australian strip and political cartoonist who drew for ""Smith's Weekly"" and ""The Herald and Weekly Times"". Cross is famous for his iconic 1933 """"For gorsake, stop laughing: this is serious!”"" cartoon as well as the ""Wally and the Major"" and ""The Potts"" cartoon strips. Cross was the third son born to English-born parents, Theophilus Edwin Cross, builder and architect, and his wife Florence, née Stanbrough, who met in Brisbane, married in Sydney then sought their fortune in"
"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"
"1925 when he was only 13 years old. Martin Filchock Martin ""Marty"" Filchock (January 6, 1912 – September 5, 2012) was an American cartoonist and self-taught artist who was a pioneer during the Golden Age of comic books. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army and drew comics for Army magazines. He also pitched semi-professional baseball. Filchock illustrated more than a hundred magazines including ""The Saturday Evening Post"", ""Good Housekeeping"", ""Readers Digest"", and ""The Journal of the American Medical Association"". At the time of his death at age 100, he was described as the ""oldest working cartoonist."""
"Robert Collard Robert Alphonse Collard (November 19, 1884 – April 10, 1973), also known as Robert Lortac or simply Lortac, was a French writer, illustrator, portraitist and art critic. He is considered a pioneer in animation. During his youth Collard produced cartoon and caricatures for periodicals such as Bon Vivant, Le Petit Illustré amusant and Fillette. Lorac began his first animated cartoon in 1914. After meeting with Émile Cohl, he created his own production company in 1916. The Lortac workshop was in the 1920s a rich crucible - the only one in France at the time - where the young"
"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"
"William Haselden William Kerridge Haselden (3December 187225December 1953) was an English cartoonist and caricaturist. He was the second of five children of Adolphe Henry Haselden and his wife Susan Elizabeth (née Kerridge). Haselden's parents were both English but met in Seville, where his father was director of the Seville Gasworks. Haselden's father died during a family holiday to England in 1874, and the remaining family stayed in England, settling in Hampstead. The young William's education at a private school was cut short due to the family's financial problems, and he left school at the age of 16 with no formal"
"Adelaide Claxton Adelaide Sophia Claxton (10 May 1841 – 29 August 1927) was an English painter, illustrator, and inventor. She was one of the first British women artists to make a major part of her living through the commercial press, selling satirical and comic illustrations to more than half a dozen periodicals. Claxton was born in London, one of two gifted daughters of the British painter Marshall Claxton; both Adelaide and her sister Florence followed their father in becoming painters. However, she did not share her father's taste for large oil paintings. She studied art at Cary's School in the"
"Lionel March Lionel March (26 January 1934 20 February 2018) was a British mathematician, architect and digital artist, perhaps best known for his early pioneering of computer-aided architecture and art. March was born in Hove, England on 26 January 1934. As a teenager, his interests included mathematics, theatre and design. At the age of 17 he wrote an original mathematical paper generalizing the theory of complex numbers to n-dimensions, for which the computer pioneer Alan Turing wrote, ""You have done this research with imagination and competence"". For this, March was awarded a state scholarship to read mathematics at Magdalene College,"
"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"
"Clare Victor Dwiggins Clare Victor Dwiggins (June 16, 1874 – October 26, 1958) was an American cartoonist who signed his work Dwig. Dwiggins created a number of comic strips and single-panel cartoons for various American newspapers and newspaper syndicates from 1897 until 1945, including his best-known strip, the long-running ""School Days"" (which appeared under a number of different titles). Born in Wilmington, Ohio, Dwiggins was on a path toward a career in architecture but detoured into cartooning when his artwork was published in the ""St. Louis Post-Dispatch"" and the ""New York World"" in 1897. He created a wide variety of"
"contributed to at least a dozen textbooks on illustrating and cartooning. He died on February 15, 1949, in Minneapolis. Charles L. Bartholomew Charles Lewis Bartholomew (1869–1949) was an American editorial cartoonist, more commonly known as 'Bart'. He is most well known for his daily cartoons published by the ""Minneapolis Journal"". Bartholomew was born February 10, 1869, in Chariton, Iowa. He attended the Iowa State College, graduating with a Bachelor's in Science, and meeting his future wife, Ella Louise Henderson. He began working as a reporter for the ""Minneapolis Journal"" before becoming one of the first daily editorial cartoonists in the"
"Martin Filchock Martin ""Marty"" Filchock (January 6, 1912 – September 5, 2012) was an American cartoonist and self-taught artist who was a pioneer during the Golden Age of comic books. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army and drew comics for Army magazines. He also pitched semi-professional baseball. Filchock illustrated more than a hundred magazines including ""The Saturday Evening Post"", ""Good Housekeeping"", ""Readers Digest"", and ""The Journal of the American Medical Association"". At the time of his death at age 100, he was described as the ""oldest working cartoonist."" He had had his first cartoon published in"
"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"