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Edward Gorey (1925-2000)
illustrator, costume designer, puppeteer
Jason Thompson (born 1974)
drawer, journalist, comics artist, role-playing game designer, game designer
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
painter, playwright, film director, poet, actor, illustrator, librettist, voice actor, postage stamp designer, designer, photographer, composer, jewelry designer, ceramicist, director
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Bill Peet (1915-2002)
illustrator, animator, character designer, storyboard artist, comics artist
Anthony Browne (born 1946)
illustrator, drawer, artist, graphic designer
William Nicholson (1872-1949)
painter, illustrator, printmaker, drawer, poster artist, wood engraver, theatre designer, still life painter, portraitist, landscape painter, trustee, xylographer, visual artist
Janosch (born 1931)
illustrator, playwright, photographer, textile designer
Diane Stanley (born 1943)
graphic designer, biographer
