WJohn Wolcott Adams (1874–1925) was an American illustrator.
WRick Altergott is an American alternative cartoonist and illustrator. Altergott is best known for Doofus, a long-running low-brow, scatological series of strips which chronicle the misadventures of two small-town weirdos, Doofus and Henry Hotchkiss.
WDr Alexander Anderson was an American physician and illustrator.
WLeon Barritt (1852–1938) was an American illustrator, cartoonist, journalist, and amateur astronomer. He produced a famous cartoon satirizing Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, co-invented with Garrett P. Serviss the Barritt–Serviss Star and Planet Finder, a popular star chart sold into the 1950s, and, after losing his artistic ability to paralysis, founded The Monthly Evening Sky Map magazine. Born in Saugerties, New York, he began as a news agent in his home town before moving to Boston to work as an engraver. After a year in Minnesota, he returned to New York in 1884, where he became cartoonist for the New York Press.
WSheilah Beckett was an American illustrator, known for her work on the Little Golden Books series. She illustrated more than 70 classic fairy-tale titles for Little Golden Books, among them The Twelve Days of Christmas, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, and Snow White and Rose Red. She also illustrated several contemporary volumes of poetry, and a variety of 18th and 19th century adult works, including Lowell Baird's 1959 translation of Candide and a 1940 adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore. At the time of her death, Beckett resided and worked in Ossining, New York. Her final works done at the age of 99 were on the computer. Becket lived to be 100 years old.
WJoe Neil Beeler (1931-2006) was an American illustrator, artist and sculptor specializing in the field of Western art. In 1965, he cofounded the Cowboy Artists of America (CAA) with Charlie Dye, John Hampton and George Phippen.
WFrederick John Behre was an American artist born in San Francisco, California.
WCharles Howland Hammatt Billings (1818–1874) was an artist and architect from Boston, Massachusetts.
WEdwin Frederick Brotze (1868–1939) was a newspaper illustrator and editorial cartoonist. He grew up in California, where he went to St Mary's College in Moraga. He worked in newspapers in Chicago (c.1900) and Los Angeles and in 1906 ended up in Seattle, where he worked for The Seattle Times until his death. He was known for his caricatures and editorial cartoons.
WCelia Calle is a Boston-born and New York City-based illustrator, fashion designer and comic book penciller. Educated at the Parsons School of Design, Calle began her career as a costume designer before eventually turning to illustration. Her illustration work has included the cover art for comic books such as Vertigo Comics' American Virgin (#15-#23), Virgin Comics' Walk-In and Seven Brothers, and Marvel Comics' Mekanix. Other illustration credits include work with ESPN Magazine, Adidas, Nike and MTV Networks. Calle's illustrations were included in the first issue of IDW Publishing's magazine Swallow. She's currently working on an adaptation of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
WFrank Calvert (1876–1920) was a Seattle Times newspaper artist and cartoonist, and member of the Seattle Cartoonists' Club. In 1911, he edited a book for the club, The cartoon; a reference book of Seattle's successful men, which included biographies, photos and caricatures of men the club considered influential in Seattle.
WJohn R Chapin (1827-1907) was a 19th-century American artist and illustrator, who worked for Harper's Magazine. He was especially noted for a series of illustrations entitled Artist life in the highlands of New Jersey published in April 1860 which gave a realistic depiction of the daily life of miners.
WJohn Cecil Clay, 1875-1930, was an American illustrator known for genre and caricature paintings.
WHenry Clive was an Australian-born American graphic artist and illustrator. Clive is known particularly for his illustrations in The American Weekly and cover series, which were posed for by screen celebrities.
WRicardo Cortés is an illustrator and author. He has written and illustrated a children's book about marijuana: It's Just a Plant. He illustrated Go the Fuck to Sleep, Adam Mansbach's bedtime story for adults, and I Don't Want To Blow You Up!, a coloring book with pages devoted to famous Muslims who are not terrorists.
WJoshua Prince in Newport Beach, California), professionally known as Dust La Rock, was a New York-based artist and designer.
WEdna Eicke (1919–1979) was for many years an illustrator of distinctive covers for the New Yorker magazine. 'Do you have trouble letting go of old copies of The New Yorker?' asked John Updike in the foreword to an anthology of the magazine's covers. 'Blame the covers … We want to be where the cover is, whether it's a pricey night club by Peter Arno or an Eden-green lawn by Edna Eicke … '
WWalter James Fenn, usually signing his work as W. J. Fenn, was an American artist and illustrator.
WHenry Chapman Ford (1828–1894) was an American illustrator. His depictions of California's missions were partially responsible for the revival of interest in the state's Spanish heritage.
WJohn Brian Francis "Jack" Gaughan, pronounced like 'gone' was an American science fiction artist and illustrator who won the Hugo Award several times. Working primarily with Donald A. Wollheim at Ace Books, and DAW Books from 1971, his simple linear style brought to life images of such works as Andre Norton's Witch World novels and E. E. Smith's Lensmen and Skylark novels. His broad visual vocabulary enabled him to render the objects, spaceships and scenes in whatever was presented to him as they were described in the books and stories he illustrated. That was especially an accomplishment as many of these authors drew on their knowledge of esoteric subjects for their imagery. This ability made him very popular among people with an engineering background.
WDan Sayre Groesbeck was an American illustrator, muralist, and designer of "visualization sketches" in the pre-cinematic era.
WGeorge Hager was a Seattle illustrator and editorial cartoonist who worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the early 20th century. He was the son of another Seattle cartoonist, John Hager, known to his readers as DOK. He is known for being the first illustrator to show the Pike Place Market in Seattle.
WDave Halili is a contemporary American fine arts illustrator, graffiti writer and graphic designer of album cover paintings, posters, logos, T-shirts along with other forms of representational merchandise. His best-known works are album covers for Body Count, Ice-T, The Skeletones and Moon Ska Records compilation California Ska-Quake. An array of collaborations in the Hollywood entertainment industry and indie music scene have garnered him a Diamond record plaque, three Platinum awards, three Gold records and two Gold Europe plaques certified and registered by the RIAA.
WAugustus Hoppin (1828–1896) was an American book illustrator, born in Providence, R. I.. He graduated at Brown University in 1848 and was admitted to the bar, but soon gave up the law and went abroad to study art. Upon his return he devoted himself to drawing on wood and to the illustration of books, in which he was successful. His pictures in Nothing to Wear (1857), Poliphar Papers (1853), and The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table (1858) are widely known. He published several volumes of sketches and novels, among the latter Recollections of Auton House (1881) and Married for Fun (1885).
WRobert Bruce Horsfall was an American wildlife illustrator. His paintings were included in several works from the early 20th century, including Frank M. Chapman's Warblers of North America.
WCharles Howard Johnson was an American illustrator and newspaper artist, best known for his sparse illustrations of the 1890 U.S. edition of The Princess by the English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson.
WWilliam De White, better known as Guy Juke, is a Austin, Texas–based graphic artist and musician. As a poster artist he created memorable imagery for nightclubs such as Armadillo World Headquarters and was one of the 'Armadillo Art Squad'. His work is recognized for its blocky, sharp-edged figures on angular, geometric settings. Often darkly detailed, his work include shadowy and angular figures inspired by horror films, haunting western landscapes, and loopy cartoon characters.
WStuart Kaufman was an American artist and illustrator. Kaufman was born in Brooklyn, New York, and attended the Pratt Institute and the Art Students League. His illustrations have been used for book covers, movie posters, and in magazines including The Saturday Evening Post, McCall’s Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Esquire, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, and many others.
WCharles Raymond "C. R." Macauley was an American cartoonist and illustrator. He was also involved in the film business.
WLucile Patterson Marsh, also spelled as Lucille Patterson Marsh, (1890-1978) was a prominent illustrator during the 1920s to 1950s. She illustrated numerous covers for magazines including, Woman's Home Companion and Cosmopolitan. Marsh also illustrated advertisements for Jell-O, Pet Milk, and Ivory soap, among others.
WBessie Niemeyer Marshall was an American botanical illustrator known for her watercolor paintings of the wildflowers of Lee Memorial Park. Her artwork documented the variety of plant species being preserved in Lee Memorial Park, a Works Progress Administration-funded wildflower and bird sanctuary in Petersburg, Virginia.
WRobert Theodore McCall was an American conceptual artist, known particularly for his works of space art.
WGerald McConnell was an American illustrator best known for his works on paperback books. He was born in East Orange, New Jersey and studied under Frank J. Reilly and Dean Cornwell. McConnell also worked on many advertisements, paintings for places like the Air Force Museum, NASA Museum, and National Park Department.
WJohn McLenan (1827–1865) was an American illustrator and caricaturist. Active from 1852 to 1865, his works include illustrations of Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations for Harper's Weekly and illustrations for two Wilkie Collins novels. Author Sinclair Hamilton wrote of McLenanDiscovered by DeWitt C. Hitchcock working in a pork-packing establishment in Cincinnati and making drawings on the tops of barrels, McLenan became one of the most prolific of our [i. e., America's] early illustrators.. .. . He was also well known as a comic draftsman. His work will bear comparison with the best of his time.
WHerbert Andrew Paus was an American illustrator who was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame in 2005. He was particularly associated with the magazine Popular Science, for whom he produced all the covers from mid-1927 to early 1931.
WLen Peralta is a Cleveland-area graphic artist, illustrator, cartoonist, and podcaster who is known for zombie-themed caricatures and collaborations with nerd celebrities.
WMaria Louisa Pike was an American naturalist.
WGeorge Wolfe Plank (1883–1965) was an American artist illustrator, chiefly remembered for his long-term association with Vogue Magazine, which resulted in years of covers in an Art Deco style related to that of Helen Dryden and influenced, by among others, Edmund Dulac.
WEthel McClellan Plummer (1888–1936) was an American artist who resided primarily in New York. She worked primarily with drawings, prints, and paintings. She was the Vice President of the Society of Illustrators and Artists and exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists in 1910, the MacDowell Club in 1915, the Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture by Women Artists for the Benefit of Woman Suffrange Campaign at the Macbeth Gallery (1915). She worked as an illustrator for various magazines, including Life, Vogue, Shadowland, and Vanity Fair.
WWilliam Meade Prince was an American magazine illustrator of the 1920s and 1930s. The William Meade Prince and Lillian Hughes Prince Papers form part of the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina.
WPat Rawlings is an American technical illustrator and space artist. Since 1970s his illustrations related to spaceflight featured in hundreds of books and magazines, as well as in film and television.
WAllen Russell Saalburg (1899–1987) was an American painter, illustrator, and screen printer born in Rochelle, Illinois. His father was the cartoonist Charles W. Saalburg. He studied at the Art Students League of New York before working in advertising and magazine illustration in the 1920s. A business trip he took to Paris in 1929 with his wife, sketching runway fashion for department stores, led to his first gallery show, at the esteemed Bernheim-Jeune, with his second in New York at a gallery of Louis Bouché. During the 1930s he had regular shows of screenprints on glass and wall panels, and directed a mural division of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), in New York City, overseeing murals in the Central Park Zoo and other New York locations. His murals in the Arsenal of Central Park survive today.
WHarry Steele Savage (1898–1970) was born on December 21, 1898 in Central Lake, Michigan to Irish and French Canadian immigrants, Flora (McLaughlin) and William Harry Savage.
WWilliam Herman Schmedtgen was an American illustrator and painter known as a pioneer in Chicago newspaper illustrating. Born in Chicago, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. His first work was with the Chicago Mail in 1883, he then spent two years in St. Louis and New York doing commercial art. He was chief of the art department at the Chicago Record from 1886 to 1901; and later on staff of the Chicago Record-Herald. He was a field artist for the Record during the Spanish–American War, stationed with U.S. troops in Cuba. He died at his home in Wilmette, aged 74.
WGlen C. Sheffer (1881–1948) was an illustrator whose most notable work was a poster for the 1933 Chicago World's Fair. He created illustrations for publications by the Kappa Sigma Fraternity, and Frank L. Baum's The Fate of a Crown. Some works have realized over $1000 in recent auction.
WDan Smith is an American illustrator and graphic artist known for his distinctive "SMIF" signature, and his work for Wizards of the Coast, FASA, White Wolf, Steve Jackson Games, Iron Crown, Hasbro, Nintendo, Namco and others. While known primarily as an illustrator, Dan Smith is also a designer of family card games, including Battle of the Bands, Portable Adventures and the upcoming King of Crime.
WElmer Boyd Smith was an American writer and illustrator of children's books and painter.
WPaul C. Stahr (1883–1953) was an American illustrator who created many posters, book and magazine covers, particularly for Pulps. Stahr illustrated numerous covers for Argosy magazine from 1923 to 1936.
WHenry Louis Stephens was an American illustrator and editorial cartoonist.
WIsaac Walton Taber was an American illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was also known as "Walton Taber." As his work was often credited to "I. W. Taber," he has been confused with the photographer Isaiah West Taber (1830-1912).
WWilliam Ladd Taylor (1854-1926) was an American illustrator.
WJohn William Vawter, from Greenfield, Indiana, was an American landscape artist and illustrator known for his broad strokes and loose Impressionist style.
WEdward Vischer (1809–1878) was a German-born painter and photographer who migrated from Germany to Mexico at the age of nineteen. There, he worked with the commercial house of Heinrich Virmond, traveling throughout the Pacific Coast region of the Americas. In 1835, he visited Peru on business, where he lived with artist Mauritius Rugendas and met Charles Darwin. In 1842, he became interested in California and agreed to travel there for Virmond.
WBernhardt T. Wall was an American historian and lithographic illustrator. He designed more than 5,000 comic cards, and became known as the "Postcard King". Many were "patriotic" cards, and American "propaganda" cards printed during World War I. After Wall visited Colorado, Nevada and California in 1915, he produced much work of western themes with small towns, Indians and cowboys. Wall worked with a variety of publishers over his career, most notably Valentine & Sons, Bergman, Barton and Spooner, International Art Co., the Illustrated Postal Card Co., Gibson Art Co., and J.I. Austen.
WJon Whitcomb (1906–1988) was an American illustrator. He was well known for his pictures of glamorous young women. He was born in Weatherford, Oklahoma and grew up in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University and graduated from Ohio State University with a major in English. He is the brother of fashion designer and inventor Merry Hull.
WEdwin Whitefield was a landscape artist who is best known for his lithographed views of North American cities and for a number of illustrated books on colonial homes in New England.
WMilo Winter was an American book illustrator. He created editions of Aesop's Fables, Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland, A Christmas Carol, Gulliver's Travels, Tanglewood Tales (1913), and others.
WDean Yeagle is an American animator and cartoonist, born in the United States, known for his character Mandy, which has appeared in the pages of Playboy magazine.
WFrederick Coffay Yohn, often recognized only by his initials, F. C. Yohn, was an artist and magazine illustrator.