It’s National Cartoonists Day!

 As we have for the last several years, today we salute hard working ink-slingers from present to days gone by.

Magazine cartoonist Eric Peters and comic book great Lily Renee

“Corka” aka Jon Cornin and Zena Kavin

Gag cartoonist and original “Flash’ artist, Harry Lampert

Henry Boltinoff

Edwina Dumm creator of Cap Stubbs and Tippie

Leo Salkin

Mary Gibson

Bob Barnes

Jeffery Monahan

Ed Wheelan

The multi talented Fred G.Cooper

Editorial cartoonist Edmund Gale

A. John Kaunus

Chas. Strauss

Barney Tobey

Comic book great, Matt Baker

Gag cartoonist Merrylen Townsend

Disney artist and gagster Roy Williams

Ed Nofziger magazine cartoonist and animator

The great humorous illustrator, Arnold Roth

Tom ‘Zib’ Zibelli

Walter Berndt, creator of “Smitty’

Reamer Keller

Ted Brown

Old time cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News and N.Y. Herald Tribune

Fontaine Fox, creator of the Toonerville Trolly

Jimmy “They’ll Do It Every Time’ Hatlo

Comic strip artist and pulp illustrator, Rex Maxon

Fine gag cartoonist Anthony Vincent LaMendola who later changed his name to George Dole

Hilda Terry, creator of “Teena”

Bill O’Malley

Pulitzer Prize winner Ding Darling

Also a Pulitzer Prize winner, Jim Borgman (and co-creator of “Zits)

Humorous illustrator, Michael C. Witte

Cartoonist and animator, Bill Plympton

Master caricaturist Al Hirschfeld as drawn by master caricaturist David Levine

Master caricaturist David Levine as drawn by master caricaturist Al Hirschfeld

Editorial cartoonist Charles Sykes

Cartoonist harry J. Westerman’s tribute to the passing of cartoonist Billy Ireland

H.T.Webster

Happy national cartoonist Day. it’s also Cinco de Mayo and, in San Francisco --Ron Turner Day (Publisher of Last Gasp).

Here are past National Cartoonist Day posts:

https://larryrippeeandmollyreaart.blogspot.com/2018/05/today-is-national-cartoonists-day.html

https://larryrippeeandmollyreaart.blogspot.com/2021/05/yes-its-national-cartoonists-day.html

https://larryrippeeandmollyreaart.blogspot.com/2019/05/yes-once-again-its-national-cartoonist.html

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