See also: list of comic strips
Notable cartoonists include:
- Pete Abrams : Sluggy Freelance
- Scott Adams : Dilbert
- Charles Addams: macabre cartoons featured in The New Yorker and elsewhere
- Murray Ball : Footrot Flats
- Steve Bell : contemporary British political cartoonist
- Oscar Berger : Aesop's Foibles (1947); active 1920s - 1960s
- Reuben Bolling : Tom the Dancing Bug Contemporary American polticial
- Berke Breathed : Bloom County 1980's American social-polticial
- Dik Browne : Hi and Lois, Hagar the Horrible
- Milt Caniff : Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon
- Max Cannon : Red Meat Contemporary American
- Al Capp : Lil Abner
- Paul Conrad : political cartoons
- Robert Crumb : Mr. Natural, Fritz the Cat, Keep on Truckin'
- Dan DeCarlo : Archie, Josie and the Pussycats, Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- Jim Davis : Garfield
- Will Eisner: The Spirit
- Lyonel Feininger, rare fine artist who did strips, Kin-der Kids and Wee Willie Winkie's World
- Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) : Was a political and advertising cartoonist before and during World War II before becoming a children's author
- Ronald Giles (Giles) : single panel cartoons in the British Daily Express
- Brian Giovannini : Postage Due
- Rube Goldberg : Cartoons of complex and convoluted machines doing very simple tasks.
- René Goscinny : Asterix
- Matt Groening : Life In Hell, The Simpsons, Futurama
- George Herriman : Krazy Kat
- William Hogarth : 18th century British political cartoonist
- Lynn Johnston : For Better or for Worse
- Hank Ketcham : Dennis the Menace
- Walt Kelly : Pogo
- Frank King : Gasoline Alley
- Gary Larson : The Far Side recent contemporary social and science based humor
- R K Laxman: Cartoonist for The Times of India, India.
- Stan Lee
- Michael Leunig
- Loriot
- David Low : political cartoonist in Britain between the world wars, characters included Colonel Blimp.
- Patrick McDonnell : Mutts
- Ogden Nash : Santa Claus
- Steve Nease : Pud
- Virgil Partch: known as "VIP," he was a leading US gag cartoonist of the '50s and 60s
- Hugo Pratt: Corto Maltese
- Matthew Pritchett (Matt) : single panel political cartoons in the British Daily Telegraph
- Ted Rall : Current Contemporary American political cartoonist.
- Jonathan Rosenberg : Goats
- Charles Schulz : Peanuts
- Elzie Crisler Segar : Popeye
- Carroll Spinney : Harvey
- Uli Stein : Mice
- James Thurber : one-panel cartoons for The New Yorker magazine
- Tom Tomorrow : This Modern World Current contemporary American polticial cartoonist
- Garry Trudeau : Doonesbury
- Albert Uderzo : Asterix
- Bill Watterson : Calvin and Hobbes
