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Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962)
painter, illustrator
Samuel R. Delany (born 1942)
cartoonist, essayist, literary critic, journalist
- University at Buffalo, City College of New York
Cesare Zavattini (1902-1989)
journalist, dramaturge, director, comics artist, playwright, poet, drawer
- University of Parma
Günter Grass (1927-2015)
lyricist, poet, sculptor, playwright, essayist, autobiographer, painter, graphic artist, altar server, illustrator, printmaker, photographer, artist, librettist
- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Berlin University of the Arts
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
linguist, film director, cricketer, poet, playwright, translator, teacher, intellectual, French resistance fighter, video artist
- Trinity College Dublin
Jack Cole (1911-1974)
comics artist, caricaturist, illustrator, drawer, editor
Jean Bruller (1902-1991)
illustrator, playwright, printmaker, French resistance fighter, graphic artist
- École alsacienne, ESIEE Paris
Clarence Day (1874-1935)
poet, humorist, essayist, cartoonist, autobiographer
- Yale University