8 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Bob Kane was an American comic book artist officially credited as Batman's creator, though Bill Finger co-created the character.
Luigi Serafini's 1981 illustrated encyclopedia of an imaginary world — written in an invented script that has never been decoded — one of the most extraordinary art objects of the 20th century.
Gerald Scarfe is a British caricaturist and animator known for vicious political cartoons in Private Eye and The Sunday Times, and for the landmark animation sequences in 'Pink Floyd: The Wall'.
American commercial illustrator who painted the definitive Coca-Cola Santa Claus from 1931 to 1964 — the jolly, red-suited, white-bearded figure that became the globally dominant visual representation of Santa Claus.
Jerry Robinson was an American comic book artist who drew The Joker for DC Comics' Batman #1 in 1940.
Newell Convers Wyeth, American illustrator and painter best known for his dramatic adventure illustration — Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Robin Hood — and as the patriarch of the Wyeth artistic dynasty.
American illustrator best known for his Saturday Evening Post covers and his Four Freedoms paintings, whose sentimental, technically masterful depictions of American life defined mainstream visual culture for five decades.
American writer and illustrator whose Wait But Why blog makes complex topics — AI, space exploration, procrastination, relationships, human progress — accessible through long-form illustrated essays that combine intellectual rigor with humor.