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Dav Pilkey (born 1966)
illustrator, cartoonist
- Kent State University
Desmond Morris (born 1928)
ethnologist, painter, ethologist, primatologist, zoologist, television presenter, illustrator, sociobiologist
- University of Oxford, University of Birmingham
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
theatre manager, botanist, politician, painter, philosopher, theologian, jurist, art critic, music critic, librarian, poet, physicist, literary, playwright, autobiographer, diplomat, statesperson, polymath, aphorist, diarist, mineralogist, zoologist, art theorist, lawyer, composer, librettist, visual artist, art historian
- Leipzig University, University of Strasbourg
James Thurber (1894-1961)
journalist, playwright, autobiographer, drawer, humorist, essayist, cartoonist
- Ohio State University
Joss Whedon (born 1964)
film director, film producer, television director, composer, director, actor, cartoonist, television actor, animator, television producer, producer
- Wesleyan University, Winchester College
Salvador Dalí (1904-1989)
painter, sculptor, actor, film director, photographer, film actor, scenographer, illustrator, jewelry designer, graphic artist, holographer
- Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando
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
Alberto Manguel (born 1948)
translator, editor, essayist, illustrator
- National School of Buenos Aires