#BOTD: Al Taliaferro (August 29, 1905 – February 3, 1969), was an American Disney comics artist who produced Disney comic strips for King Features Syndicate. He is best known for his work on the Donald Duck comic strip for which he created or co-created several supporting characters and introduced Huey, Dewey, and Louie after their silver screen appearance in the short "Donald's Nephews."

#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Taliaferro

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/444/

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#BOTD: Walt Kelly (August 25, 1913 – October 18, 1973) was an American animator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Pogo. He began his animation career in 1936 at Walt Disney Studios, contributing to Pinocchio, Fantasia, and Dumbo. In 1941, Kelly began working for Dell Comics, where he created Pogo, which eventually became his platform for political and philosophical commentary.

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#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Kelly

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/13584/

#BOTD: Michael Kaluta (b. August 25, 1947) is an American comics artist, writer, and illustrator best known for his 1970s adaptation of the pulp magazine hero The Shadow with writer Dennis O'Neil as well as his own Starstruck series. He has also produced album cover art for The Alan Parsons Project and Glenn Danzig and illustration for tabletop game publishers like White Wolf and Wizards of the Coast.

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#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Kaluta

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/9486/

#BOTD: Ernie Bushmiller (August 23, 1905 – August 15, 1982) was an American cartoonist, best known for the daily comic strip Nancy, which premiered in 1938 and has remained in print for over 85 years. A founding member of the National Cartoonists Society, he received its Humor Comic Strip and Reuben Awards in 1976. In 2011, he was a Judges' Choice for The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.

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#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernie_Bushmiller

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/15296/

#BOTD: Jim Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as the creator of the comic strips #Garfield and U.S. Acres. Published since 1978, Garfield is one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. Davis has written and/or produced numerous Garfield TV animated series and specials and direct-to-video films.

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#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Davis_(cartoonist)

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/15613/

#BOTD: Dick Sprang (July 28, 1915 – May 10, 2000) was an American comic book artist and penciller, best known for his Golden Age work on the superhero #Batman. Sprang was responsible for the 1950 redesign of the Batmobile and the original design of the Riddler, who has appeared in film, television and other media adaptations. Sprang's Batman was notable for his square chin, expressive face and barrel chest.

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#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Sprang

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/3383/

#BOTD: Gus Arriola (July 17, 1917 – February 2, 2008) was an American cartoonist known for the comic strip Gordo, which ran from 1941 to 1985. He used the strip to introduce Mexican culture to readers throughout the world and was awarded by the National Cartoonist Society in 1957 and 1965. Charles Schulz described it as "probably the most beautifully drawn strip in the history of the business."

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#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Arriola

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/15106/

#BOTD: Dave Berg (June 12, 1920 – May 17, 2002) was an American cartoonist, most noted for his five decades of work in Mad of which The Lighter Side of... was the most famous. Berg often included caricatures of his own family—headed by his cranky hypochondriac alter ego, Roger Kaputnik—as well as of the Mad editorial staff.

#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Berg_(cartoonist)

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/2849/

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#BOTD: Bob Bolling (born June 9, 1928) is an American cartoonist best known for his work in Archie Comics. He created the company's popular spin-off title Little Archie. Mr. Bolling received the Inkpot Award in 2005 in recognition of his work on Little Archie. He was presented with the Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing at the San Diego Comic-Con in 2022.

#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Bolling

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/1362/

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#BOTD: C.C. Beck (June 8, 1910 – November 22, 1989) was an American cartoonist, best known for his work on Captain Marvel (today known as Shazam!) at Fawcett Comics and DC Comics. Beck was awarded an Inkpot by the San Diego Comic Con in 1977. He was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1993 and the Jack Kirby Hall of Fame in 1997.

#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._C._Beck

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/2008/

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#BOTD: Mark Schultz (born June 7, 1955) is an American writer and illustrator of books and comics. His most widely recognized work is the creator-owned comic book series Xenozoic Tales a.k.a. Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, which describes a post-apocalyptic world where dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures coexist with humans. In 2004, Schultz took over the scripting duties of the Prince Valiant comic strip.

#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Schultz_(comics)

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/8864/

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#BOTD: Graham Ingels (June 7, 1915 – April 4, 1991) was a comic book and magazine illustrator best known for his work in EC Comics during the 1950s, notably on The Haunt of Fear, Tales from the Crypt, and Vault of Horror. Ingels' flair for horror led EC to promote him as Ghastly Graham Ingels, and he began signing his work "Ghastly" in 1952.

#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Ingels

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/5069/

#BOTD: Gilberto Hernández (born February 1, 1957), usually credited as Gilbert Hernandez and also by the nickname Beto, is an American cartoonist. He is best known for his Palomar/Heartbreak Soup stories in Love and Rockets, an alternative comic book he shared with his brothers Jaime and Mario. The alternative rock band Love and Rockets was named after the Hernández brothers' comic book.

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#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Hernandez

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/4943/

#BOTD: Guy Gilchrist (born January 30, 1957) is an American writer and artist, known for his children's books and comics. With his brother Brad, he produced a newspaper comic strip featuring The Muppets from 1981 to 1986 and the comic strip Nancy from 1995 to 2018 (the last 14 years as solo writer). He is the writer/illustrator of more than 60 children's books.

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#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Gilchrist

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/15967/

#BOTD: Fred Hembeck (born January 30, 1953) is an American cartoonist best known for his parodies of characters from major American comic book publishers, including Marvel and DC. He often portrays himself as a character in his own work in the role of "interviewer" of various comic book characters.

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#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Hembeck

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/4514/

Hembeck.com: http://www.hembeck.com

#BOTD: Jules Feiffer (born January 26, 1929) is an American cartoonist and author, who was considered the most widely read satirist in the country. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 as America's leading editorial cartoonist, and in 2004 he was inducted into the Comic Book Hall of Fame. The Library of Congress has recognized his "remarkable legacy", from 1946 to the present.

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#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Feiffer

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/7430/

George McManus (January 23, 1884 – October 22, 1954) was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of Irish immigrant Jiggs and his wife Maggie, the main characters of his syndicated comic strip, Bringing Up Father. Syndicated internationally by King Features Syndicate, the strip achieved great success. Two years before his death, McManus said that it had earned him $12,000,000 during his lifetime.

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#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_McManus

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/15627/

#BOTD: Harold Lincoln Gray (January 20, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the newspaper comic strip Little Orphan Annie. After he came up with a strip idea in 1924 for Little Orphan Otto, the title was altered by Chicago Tribune editor Joseph Medill Patterson to Little Orphan Annie, launched August 5, 1924.

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#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Gray

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/15501/

#BOTD: François Walthéry (born January 17, 1946 is a Belgian comics artist, best known for his series featuring an adventurous flight attendant, Natacha. He worked as an assistant to Peyo on The Smurfs, Johan et Pirlouit (Johan & Peewit) and Benoît Brisefer (Benny Breakiron) before Natacha debuted in the pages of Spirou in 1970.

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#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/François_Walthéry

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/15282/

#BOTD: Genndy Tartakovsky (born January 17, 1970) is a Russian-American animator, director, producer, screenwriter, voice actor, storyboard artist, comic book writer and artist. He is best known as the creator of various animated television series on Cartoon Network and Adult Swim, including Dexter's Laboratory, Samurai Jack, Star Wars: Clone Wars, Sym-Bionic Titan, and Primal.

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#Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genndy_Tartakovsky

#GCD: https://www.comics.org/creator/4735/