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William Steig (1907-2003)
sculptor, illustrator
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
Gary Larson (born 1950)
cartoonist, comics artist, drawer, caricaturist, visual artist
- Washington State University
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
painter, playwright, film director, poet, actor, illustrator, librettist, voice actor, postage stamp designer, designer, photographer, composer, jewelry designer, ceramicist, director
- Lycée Condorcet
Robin Jarvis (born 1963)
illustrator
- Northumbria University
Marie Lu (born 1984)
illustrator
- University of Southern California
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
linguist, film director, cricketer, poet, playwright, translator, teacher, intellectual, French resistance fighter, video artist
- Trinity College Dublin
N.D. Stevenson (born 1991)
comics artist, television producer, illustrator, voice actor
- Maryland Institute College of Art