List of illustrators

This is an alphabetical list of notable illustrators.

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A

• Salomon van Abbé – etcher, illustrator of books and magazines
• Edwin Austin Abbey – American illustrator, painter
• Elenore Abbott – American book illustrator, scenic designer
• Jacob Bates Abbott – American illustrator, wildlife painter
• Abed Abdi – Israeli Palestinian illustrator, painter, graphic designer, sculptor
• Jean Adamson – English children's writer, illustrator
• Dan Adkins – American illustrator of comic books and science-fiction magazines
• Attila Adorjany – Canadian fantasy illustrator
• Alex Akerbladh – Swedish-born British comics artist
• Constantin Alajalov – American painter, illustrator
• Maria Pascual Alberich – Spanish book illustrator
• Annette Allcock – English children's book illustrator
• Thomas B. Allen – American painter, illustrator
• Thomas Allom – English architect, illustrator
• Chris Van Allsburg – American writer, illustrator of children's books
• Yoshitaka Amano – Japanese illustrator for Vampire Hunter D
• Victor Ambrus – archaeological illustrator
• Raymond Ameijide – American illustrator, graphic designer
• Anne Anderson – Scottish children's book illustrator
• Lai Ann – Taiwanese cartoonist
• Chris Appelhans – American filmmaker and illustrator
• Honor C. Appleton – English children's book illustrator
• Cosmo Armstrong – English line-engraver
• Peter Arno – American cartoonist
• Hans Arnold – Swiss-born Swedish illustrator
• James Arnold – English rural illustrator
• Rodolfo Arotxarena – Uruguayan caricaturist
• Steve Augarde – English children's book illustrator
• Margaret Ayer – American writer, illustrator of books for children and adults
• Russell Ayto – English children's book illustrator

B

• Ken Bald – American illustrator, comic book artist
• Roberto Baldazzini – Italian illustrator, comic book artist
• Cyrus Leroy Baldridge – American illustrator, writer, adventurer
• Jan Balet – German-American painter, graphic artist, illustrator
• Asun Balzola – Spanish illustrator, writer, translator
• Edgar Henry Banger – British comics creator
• Eulalie Minfred Banks – British-American illustrator
• Istvan Banyai – Hungarian-born American commercial illustrator, animator
• George Barbier – French illustrator
• Cicely Mary Barker – English children's book illustrator, religious artist
• Kathleen Frances Barker – English children's book illustrator, writer
• Carl Barks – American cartoonist; worked for the Disney Studios
• Angela Barrett – British illustrator
• Niko Barun – Croatian cartoonist, illustrator
• Graeme Base – Australian writer and illustrator of children's books
• Gary Baseman – American cartoonist, illustrator, painter, designer, animator
• Johanna Basford – Scottish illustrator
• Rudi Bass – Austrian-born American graphic artist, illustrator, writer
• Richard Bassford – American illustrator for advertising and comic books
• John Batchelor – English technical illustrator
• Vincent Batignole – French comic book artist
• John Dickson Batten – British painter, book illustrator, printmaker
• John Bauer – Swedish illustrator concerned with mythology
• Pauline Baynes – English book illustrator
• S.G. Hulme Beaman – English illustrator, writer
• Aubrey Beardsley – English illustrator, writer
• Julie Bell – American illustrator
• Ludwig Bemelmans – American illustrator; known for Madeline children's books
• Earle K. Bergey – American illustrator
• Jon Berkeley – Dublin-born illustrator and children's writer
• Louisa Bertman – American illustrator, animator, visual narrative artist specializing in social and political advocacy
• Elsa Beskow – Swedish writer and illustrator of children's books
• Rupert Besley – British illustrator
• David Biedrzycki – American illustrator and writer of children's books
• Alessandro Biffignandi – Italian illustrator
• Ivan Bilibin – Russian illustrator, stage designer
• Guy Billout – French illustrator
• Charles Binger – known for science-fiction and hard-boiled book covers
• Ned Bittinger – American portrait painter, illustrator
• Mary Blair – American artist, animator, designer
• Quentin Blake – British; known for illustrating books by Roald Dahl
• Ivan Blinov – Russian calligrapher
• Cheeming Boey – Malaysian artist
• Hannes Bok – American artist and illustrator
• Enoch Bolles – American painter of pin-up art
• Chesley Bonestell – American painter, designer, illustrator
• Melinda Bordelon – American painter, illustrator
• Tom Bouden – Belgian artist
• Anna Boudová Suchardová
• Eleanor Vere Boyle – illustrator of children's books
• Syd Brak – London-based illustrator
• Anna Brandoli – Italian comic book artist
• Kaare Bratung – Norwegian illustrator, comic artist
• Lynn Breeze – British illustrator, writer
• Molly Brett – English illustrator and children's writer
• Rae Bridgman – Canadian anthropologist, writer, artist
• Raymond Briggs – English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist
• Pierre Brissaud – French Art Deco illustrator, painter, engraver
• Steve Brodner – American satirical illustrator, caricaturist
• Gerald Brom – American gothic-fantasy illustrator
• Jason Brooks – illustrator, writer
• Gordon Browne – English illustrator
• Hablot Knight Browne – English illustrator
• Margaret Brundage – American illustrator, painter
• René Bull – British illustrator, photographer
• Nancy Ekholm Burkert – American art illustrator
• Mark Burrier – American cartoonist, illustrator
• Priscilla Susan Bury – English botanist, illustrator
• Sergio Burzi – Italian painter, illustrator
• Matt Busch – American illustrator, filmmaker
• Mitch Butler – illustrator, television personality

C

• Felicity Campbell – British painter, illustrator
• Aldo Capitanio – Italian comic book artist
• Fernando Carcupino – Italian illustrator, painter, comic book artist
• Edd Cartier – American pulp-magazine illustrator
• Chao Yat – Chinese (Hong Kong) comics artist
• Glenn Chadbourne – American artist
• Watson Charlton – British illustrator of children's books
• Earle D. Chesney – American cartoonist
• Lauren Child – English children's writer and illustrator
• Richard Chopping – British illustrator, writer
• Howard Chandler Christy – American illustrator
• Edgar Church – American artist, comics collector
• Fabio Civitelli – Italian comic artist
• Alan M. Clark – American illustrator
• Harry Clarke – Irish stained-glass artist, book illustrator
• John Cecil Clay – American illustrator
• John Clymer – American painter, illustrator
• Alan E. Cober
• Ted CoConis – American painter, illustrator
• Anthony Colbert – British illustrator, painter
• Hedvig Collin – Danish illustrator, painter
• Coop – American hot-rod artist
• Frank Cadogan Cowper – British artist
• Kinuko Y. Craft – Japanese-born American painter, illustrator, fantasy artist
• Reed Crandall – American illustrator, penciller of comic books and magazines
• Donald Crews – American illustrator and writer of children's picture books
• Max Crivello – Italian illustrator, cartoonist
• Robert Crumb – American cartoonist
• Thelma Cudlipp – American book illustrator
• Stacy Curtis – American cartoonist, illustrator, printmaker

D

• Geofrey Darrow
• Harry Grant Dart
• Honoré Daumier – French printmaker, caricaturist, illustrator, painter, sculptor
• Jack Davis
• Reginald Ben Davis
• Jane Mary Dealy
• Adam Dechanel
• Jason Deeble – American writer, illustrator
• Paul Degen
• Gertrude Degenhardt
• Étienne Delessert
• John Henry Dell
• Christopher Denise
• W.W. Denslow – American illustrator
• Vince Deporter
• Peter de Sève
• Ali Dilem
• Brad Diller
• Leo and Diane Dillon
• Irv Docktor
• Richard Staples Dodge
• Angela Dominguez
• Franco Donatelli
• Donelan
• Gustave Doré – French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist, sculptor
• Denise Dorrance
• Ralph Waddell Douglass
• Richard Doyle
• Roger Drew
• Edmund Dulac
• Georges Dumitresco – Romanian-Swiss physician, painter, illustrator, poet
• Frederick Melville DuMond
• Harvey Dunn

E

• Nicolas Eekman
• Lois Ehlert
• Edna Eicke
• Susan Einzig
• Will Elder
• David Elliot – New Zealander children's book illustrator and writer
• Craig Elliott
• Gil Elvgren
• Ed Emberley
• Peter Emmerich
• Ed Emshwiller
• Jack Endewelt
• Mark English
• Maginel Wright Enright
• Otto Eppers
• Erté
• Dulah Marie Evans
• Carl Eytel

F

• Jules Faber
• João Fahrion
• Frances C. Fairman
• Cathie Felstead
• Major Felten
• Jules Férat
• Nathalie Ferlut
• Alfons Figueras
• Rod Filbrandt
• Leonard Filgate
• Virgil Finlay
• Steve Fiorilla
• James Montgomery Flagg
• Jim Flora
• René Follet
• Mary Hallock Foote
• Henry Justice Ford
• Hal Foster
• Marcia Lane Foster
• Julien Fournié
• Jane Frank
• Malcolm Fraser
• Frank Frazetta
• Kelly Freas
• Anthony Freda
• Chandra Free
• Barbara C. Freeman
• Oli Frey
• Brian Froud
• Bernie Fuchs
• Joseph Fuchs
• Thomas Fuchs
• Gyo Fujikawa
• Magdalena Rosina Funck
• Tom Funk
• Eva Furnari

G

• Wanda Gág
• Dumitru Găleșanu – Romanian book illustrator, poet-philosopher
• Hector Garrido
• Carolyn Bartlett Gast – American scientific illustrator
• Zhenya Gay – American children's book illustrator
• Roman Genn
• Pencho Georgiev
• Eddie Germano
• Charles Dana Gibson
• Anne Yvonne Gilbert
• Eric Gill
• Margery Gill
• Willi Glasauer
• Milton Glaser
• Robin Preiss Glasser
• Frank Godwin
• Ted Goff
• Fabian Göranson
• Edward Gorey
• Ruth Sigrid Grafstrom
• Carlos Grangel
• Vernon Grant
• Elizabeth Shippen Green
• Kate Greenaway
• Rebecca Guay
• Shekhar Gurera – Indian editorial cartoonist, illustrator, graphic designer
• Vee Guthrie – American illustrator of children's books and cookbooks

H

• Dick Hafer
• Michael Hague
• Bob Hall
• Marcellus Hall
• Baron Barrymore Halpenny
• Clifford Harper
• Jim Harris
• Steven Harris
• Ernest William Haslehust
• Catherine Haussard
• Elisabeth Haussard
• Adam Heller
• Ruth Heller
• Danny Hellman
• Brett Helquist
• Andrew Kennaway Henderson
• Joseph Morgan Henninger
• Cornelia Hesse-Honegger – Swiss scientific illustrator
• Don Hewitt
• Don Hillsman II
• Henry Hintermeister
• John Henry Hintermeister
• Walter Haskell Hinton
• Jessica Hische – American lettering artist, illustrator, type designer
• Susie Hodge
• Dick Hodgins Jr.
• Rosekrans Hoffman
• William Hogarth
• Hokusai (known mononymously; born Katsushika Hokusai) – Japanese ukiyo-e artist of the Edo period; active as a painter, printmaker
• Brad Holland
• Nicole Hollander
• Holling C. Holling
• Edgar Alfred Holloway
• Winslow Homer
• Jeff Hook
• Daniel Horne
• James Horvath
• John Howe
• Mentor Huebner
• David Hughes
• Debbie Hughes
• Rian Hughes – British comic book artist, designer
• Jim Hummel
• Barry Hunau
• Robert Hunt
• Trina Schart Hyman

I

• Robert Ingpen – Australian children's book illustrator
• Koji Ishikawa – Japanese children's book writer and illustrator

J

• Robin Jacques – English children's book illustrator
• Al Jaffee – American cartoonist; known for his work in satirical magazine Mad
• Jago – English children's book illustrator
• Zoran Janjetov – Serbian comic artist
• Kirk Jarvinen – American illustrator
• James Jean – Taiwanese American visual artist
• Aurélien Jeanney – French illustrator, graphic designer
• Oliver Jeffers
• Alfred Garth Jones – English illustrator
• Eddie Jones – English science-fiction illustrator
• G. B. Jones – Canadian artist, filmmaker, musician
• Patrick J. Jones – Northern Irelander–born Australian-based science-fiction and fantasy painter
• Piet de Jong – English archaeological illustrator
• Federico Jordan – Mexican editorial and advertising illustrator

K

• Ingrīda Kadaka
• Arja Kajermo
• Maira Kalman
• Jack Kamen
• Avi Katz
• Cosei Kawa
• Charles Keeping
• Jack Kent
• Dóra Keresztes
• Charles Kerins
• Kazu Kibuishi
• J. D. King
• Wyncie King
• Josh Kirby
• Cem Kızıltuğ
• Hilary Knight – American writer, illustrator; known for illustrating Kay Thompson's Eloise books and some of the Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books
• Lucy Knisley
• Shahar Kober
• E. L. Konigsburg – American writer and illustrator of young-adult books, including From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler and Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley and Me, Elizabeth
• Ben Krefta
• Roy Krenkel
• Andrea Kruis
• Anita Kunz – Canadian illustrator; Officer of the Order of Canada

L

• Agi Lamm
• Yvette Lapointe
• Antonio Lara de Gavilán
• Philippe Lardy
• Kivi Larmola
• Abigail Larson – 21st-century American illustrator
• Ann Latham
• Paul Laune
• Rick Law
• John Lawrence
• Edward Lear
• Alan Lee
• Suzy Lee
• John Leech
• Alfred Leete
• João M. P. Lemos
• Lois Lenski – American writer and illustrator of historical and school-age books, including Strawberry Girl and Shoo-Fly Girl
• Olive Leonhardt – American cover illustrator for The Double Dealer magazine
• Cecil Mary Leslie
• Michael Leunig
• Celia Levetus
• Harris Levey – American illustrator for DC Comics
• Arnold Levin
• Thomas Noyes Lewis - English Christian illustrator
• J. C. Leyendecker
• Kenneth Norman Lilly
• Selena Lin
• Oleg Lipchenko
• Virginio Livraghi
• Andrew Loomis
• Rafael Lopez
• Félix Lorioux
• Frederick Lowenheim
• Lubov

M

• Miel Prudencio Ma
• Annette Macarthur-Onslow
• David W. Mack
• Robert Maguire
• Matt Mahurin
• Gorg Mallia
• Mark Marderosian
• Marcel Marlier
• Michael Martchenko
• Antoinette Martignoni
• Emily Winfield Martin
• Felix Mas
• Fortunino Matania
• David Burroughs Mattingly
• Steve Mattsson
• Tatyana Mavrina – Russian children's book illustrator
• John Alan Maxwell
• Mercer Mayer
• James Mayhew
• Angus McBride
• Winsor McCay
• Jeff McComsey
• James E. McConnell
• Jerry McDaniel
• Jim McDermott
• Thomas McIlvaine
• Craig McKay
• Dave McKean
• David McKee
• Shawn McManus
• Lilian Marguerite Medland
• Will G. Mein
• Farshid Mesghali
• David Messer
• Ken Messer – British watercolourist, illustrator
• Harald Metzkes
• Florence Meyerheim
• Ronald Michaud
• Yevgeniy Migunov
• H. R. Millar
• Mr Bingo
• Fanny Elizabeth de Mole – botanical illustrator
• Tim Molloy
• Chris Monroe
• Jeanne Montbaston
• Jacqui Morgan
• Barry Moser
• Colonel Moutarde
• Alfons Mucha
• Salvatore Murdocca
• Kelly Murphy

N

• Namboothiri
• Gogu Neagoe
• Kadir Nelson
• Barbara Nessim
• Vicky Newman
• Victo Ngai
• Kay Nielsen
• Christoph Niemann – German illustrator, writer; frequent New Yorker magazine contributor
• Adam Niklewicz
• Ignacio Noe

O

• Violet Oakley
• John O'Carroll – British archaeological illustrator
• Alan Odle
• Elena Odriozola – Spanish children's book illustrator
• Power O'Malley
• Glen Orbik
• István Orosz
• Emre Ozdemir

P

• Sidney Paget
• Walter Paget
• Gaman Palem
• John Jude Palencar
• Fung Chin Pang
• William Papas
• Roberto Parada
• Eric Parker
• Peter Parnall
• Maxfield Parrish
• Dave Pascal
• Alan Stuart Paterson
• Frank R. Paul
• C. F. Payne
• Bob Peak
• Mervyn Peake
• Susan Beatrice Pearse
• Clara Elsene Peck
• Thomas Mitchell Peirce
• Bob Penuelas
• Laura Pérez Vernetti
• Domingo F. Periconi
• Rosa C. Petherick
• Keats Petree
• Valerie Petts – English watercolourist, illustrator
• Mary Petty
• S. D. Phadnis
• LeUyen Pham – Vietnamese-born American children's book illustrator
• Craig Phillips
• Françoise Pichard
• André Pijet
• Brian Pilkington
• Rose M. M. Pitman
• Hanoch Piven
• George Wolfe Plank
• Willy Pogany
• Beatrix Potter
• Richard M. Powers
• Ernest Prater
• Michael Mathias Prechtl
• Alice and Martin Provensen
• Howard Pyle

Q

• Rosane Quintella

R

• Arthur Rackham
• Arifur Rahman – Bangladeshi-born Norwegian cartoonist
• Alberto Rapisarda
• Chris Raschka
• Walter Ratterman
• Barb Rausch
• Leonard Raven-Hill
• Else Raydt
• Gardner Rea
• Mary A. Reardon
• Ralph Reese
• Marlene Reidel – German children's-book illustrator
• Charles M. Relyea
• Emma Rendel
• Sarah Rhodes
• Renée Rienties – Dutch illustrator of comic books
• Robert Riger
• Elizabeth Rivers
• David Roberts
• Albert Robida – French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, novelist
• Heath Robinson
• Christine Roche
• Norman Rockwell
• Laura Rodig
• Spain Rodriguez
• Lucinda Rogers
• Valentina Romeo
• Artie Romero
• Félicien Rops
• Don Rosa
• Rosalys – French writer and illustrator of art books, children's books and exhibitions
• Alex Ross
• Graham Roumieu
• Øystein Runde
• Willie Rushton
• Mark Ryden

S

• Robert Sabuda
• Wiktor Sadowski
• Alberto Saichann
• Xavier Saint-Just
• Armando Salas
• B. B. Sams
• Dan Santat
• Hal Santiago
• Norman Saunders
• Zina Saunders
• Allen Say
• Gerald Scarfe
• Richard Scarry – American writer, illustrator; creator of Busytown, a fictional town depicted in several books by Scarry
• Charles Schneeman
• Adolf Schrödter
• Simon Schwartz
• Richard A. Scott
• Steve Scott – American illustrator of comic books
• Henry Seabright
• Ronald Searle
• Wilhelmina Seegmiller
• Adrienne Segur
• Maurice Sendak
• Kate Seredy
• Ben Shahn
• Nick Sharratt
• Mark Shasha
• John Shelley
• Ernest Shepard
• Claude Allin Shepperson
• Dorothy Sherrill – American editor, illustrator, writer; specializes in children's books
• Gary Shipman
• David Shrigley
• John Sibbick
• Shel Silverstein – American writer, cartoonist, songwriter, musician
• Anne Simon – French bande dessinée (also kmown as Franco-Belgian comics) writer and illustrator
• Parismita Singh – Indian illustrator, graphic novelist, educator
• Peter Sís
• Jessie Willcox Smith
• Joseph A. Smith
• Lane Smith
• Cal Sobrepeña
• Fermín Solís
• Konstantin Somov
• Suzy Spafford
• Lancelot Speed
• Armstrong Sperry
• Art Spiegelman
• Peter Spier
• Minnie Dibdin Spooner
• Bob Staake
• Ralph Steadman
• Frederic Dorr Steele
• William Steig
• Ralph Stein
• Saul Steinberg
• Joan Steiner
• Karl Stirner – German painter, watercolorist, illustrator
• William Stobbs
• Barron Storey
• Willy Stöwer – German artist, illustrator, writer; prolific during Germany's Imperial Period
• Helen Stratton
• Drew Struzan
• Lillie Sullivan
• Arthur Suydam
• Hiromi Suzuki
• Glynis Sweeny
• Christophe Szpajdel

T

• Emanuele Taglietti – Italian illustrator
• Douglas Tait
• Robert Tallon
• Shaun Tan
• Margaret Tarrant
• Robert Tavener – English book and magazine illustrator
• Gary Taxali – Canadian artist; known for his cartoon-style illustrations
• Françoise Taylor
• Prentiss Taylor
• Margaret Tempest
• Sir John Tenniel
• Henri Thiriet
• Béatrice Tillier
• Trini Tinturé
• Alton S. Tobey
• Margot Tomes
• Dolly Tree
• Stuart Tresilian
• Wallace Tripp
• Timothy Truman
• Tasha Tudor
• Michael Turner
• Dick Twinney

U

• Chen Uen
• Tomi Ungerer – French artist, writer
• Clive Uptton
• Utisz

V

• Boris Vallejo
• Alberto Vargas
• Gee Vaucher
• Agaate Veeber
• Max Velthuijs
• Vhrsti
• Emilio Vilà
• Erich von Götha de la Rosière

W

• Charles Wadsworth
• Dugald Stewart Walker
• Ernest Wallcousins
• Charles Waterhouse
• Arthur Watts
• Betty Temple Watts
• Robert Weaver
• Emil Weiss
• Jack Welch
• Don Weller
• Paul Wenzel
• Michael Whelan
• Jon Whitcomb
• Garth Williams
• Robert Williams
• Charles Banks Wilson
• George Wilson
• Larry Winborg
• Eric Winter
• David Wisniewski
• Jonathan Wolstenholme
• Ashley Wood
• Leslie Wood
• Hildegard Woodward
• Shannon Wright
• Frank Wu
• N. C. Wyeth

Y

• Takashi Yanase – Japanese children's book writer and illustrator
• Marianne Young (1811–1897) – English travel writer, illustrator
• Yu Rong – Chinese illustrator

Z

• Margot Zemach
• Laura Zuccheri
• Lisbeth Zwerger

See also

• List of caricaturists
• List of cartoonists
• List of graphic designers
• List of science fiction visual artists