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Anne Harriet Fish

  Annie Fish (27 March 1890 – 10 October 1964) was a British cartoonist and illustrator. Her illustration of "Eve" in ‘The Tatler’ spawned films, theatre and books. She was born in Horfield (Bristol) before her family moved to London. She went to work for the publisher John Lane . Her debut work was creating cartoons for Stephen Leacock 's humorous book Behind the Beyond. Her work was compared to Aubrey Beardsley although Fish noted that she did not see his work until after the comparison had been made . She was the illustrator of "Eve" until 1920 and after that the character continued to appear in Pan magazine illustrated by Jo White and later Dolly Tree.

Max Prentis

  Max Prentis is a freelance illustrator specializing in character-driven digital and ink illustrations. He’s a Sydney born ( currently based in London ,UK ) and e ncouraged by his parents, he has carried on his passion for drawing since he was a child and studied illustration. After graduating he started sharing his work on social media and in 2016 he started his own business. Max has collaborated with brands such as Intel, Google, Nike and Avex, as well as animation studios such as Goldenwolf, Cartoon Network and Nexus. He also assisted musician Tokimonsta's in the making of her Grammy nominated album "Lune Rouge". Max is ispired by pop culture, cartoons and comics.

Francis Marshall (1901-1980)

Francis Marshall was a British magazine and book illustrator, whose short stint as a comic artist included illustrations for installments of the French vertical comic strip 'Le Crime Ne Paie Pas' by  Paul Gordeaux . Early life and career William Francis Marshall was born in 1901 and educated at the Slade College of Fine Art in London. He began his career in advertising illustration. In 1928 he began a collaboration with Condé Nast as an illustrator for their magazine Vogue, to which he contributed during a period of ten years. He also painted numerous covers for romantic fiction especially the Barbara Cartland titles for PAN, Bantam, Corgi and NEL amongst others. He furthermore had a weekly fashion feature in the Daily Mail.

Lewis Baumer, born in 1870 in London, in his later teens he studied at St. John's Wood Art School and the Royal College of Art, died in 1963, birtish illustrator

 Baumer quickly found favour as an illustrator with several magazines, his first commission was for the Pall Mall magazine in 1893 and soon his pen and ink illustrations also began to appear in others such as the Bystander and the Sketch. He also had some early success with children's book, including his own story Jumbles in 1897. His longest collaboration was with Punch.  In his cartoon work Baumer was essentially a social humorist.

Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (/dɔːˈreɪ/; French: [ɡys.tav dɔ.ʁe]; 6 January 1832 – 23 January 1883[1]) was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator, comics artist, caricaturist, and sculptor who worked primarily with wood-engraving.

  Doré was born in  Strasbourg  on 6 January 1832. By age 5 he was a prodigy artist, creating drawings that were mature beyond his years. Seven years later, he began carving in stone. [ citation needed ]  At the age of 15, Doré began his career working as a caricaturist for the French paper  Le journal pour rire . [2]  Wood-engraving was his primary method at this time. [3]  In the late 1840s and early 1850s, he made several  text comics , like  Les Travaux d'Hercule  (1847),  Trois artistes incompris et mécontents  (1851),  Les Dés-agréments d'un voyage d'agrément  (1851) and  L'Histoire de la Sainte Russie  (1854). Doré subsequently went on to win commissions to depict scenes from books by  Cervantes ,  Rabelais ,  Balzac ,  Milton , and  Dante .