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Will Eisner (1917-2005)
comics artist, painter, publisher, drawer, illustrator
- Art Students League of New York
John Berger (1926-2017)
art historian, painter, journalist, poet, critic, opinion journalist, art critic
- Chelsea College of Art and Design, Central School of Art and Design
Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)
graphic designer, cartoonist, illustrator, artist, painter, director
- Art Students League of New York
William Morris (1834-1896)
architect, poet, designer, graphic designer, painter, politician, illustrator
- University of Oxford, Marlborough College
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
painter, poet, composer, playwright, essayist, philosopher, artist, lyricist, singer, film director, freedom fighter, Nobel Prize winner, librettist, actor
- University College London, St. Xavier's Collegiate School
Walt Disney (1901-1966)
film director, film producer, animator, television presenter, voice actor, manufacturer, painter, inventor, film actor, illustrator, caricaturist, director, actor, producer
- Kansas City Art Institute
William S. Burroughs (1914-1997)
poet, essayist, painter, photographer
- Harvard University, John Burroughs School
Scott McCloud (born 1960)
comics artist, painter
- Syracuse University