Illustrationintheworld

  Ilonka Karasz (July 13, 1896 – May 26, 1981), was a Hungarian-American designer and illustrator known for avant-garde industrial design and for her many New Yorker magazine covers Karasz was born in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, the oldest of three children of Mary Huber Karasz and silversmith Samuel Karasz. One of her younger sisters was the fashion designer and textile artist Mariska Karasz. She studied art at the Royal Academy of Arts and Crafts during a period when the reigning aesthetic owed much to the Wiener Werkstätte and was one of the first women to be admitted to the school. At the age of 17, she immigrated to the United States in 1913, and began to make a career for herself in New York City's Greenwich Village, where she established herself as an influential practitioner of modern art and design. In 1914, Karasz co-founded (with Winold Reiss) the European-American artists' collective Society of Modern Art, and shortly afterwards she was commissioned to create...

John Cuneo  (born January 4, 1957) is an American  illustrator , whose work has appeared in many major publications, including  The New Yorker ,  Esquire ,  Sports Illustrated  and  The Atlantic Monthly . He has been awarded several medals from the  Society of Illustrators  in New York City. [1]  He is also the author of the 2007 book  nEuROTIC . [2] http://www.johncuneo.com/

Franklin Christenson  " Chris "  Ware  (born December 28, 1967), [1]  is an American  cartoonist  known for his  Acme Novelty Library  series (begun 1994) and the graphic novels  Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth  (2000) and  Building Stories  (2012). His works explore themes of social isolation, emotional torment and depression. He tends to use a vivid color palette and realistic, meticulous detail. His lettering and images are often elaborate and sometimes evoke the ragtime era or another early 20th-century American design style. Ware often refers to himself in the publicity for his work in self-effacing, even withering tones. He is considered by some critics and fellow notable  illustrators  and writers, such as Dave Eggers, to be among the best currently working in the medium; Canadian graphic-novelist  Seth  has said, "Chris really changed the playing field. After him, a lot of [cartoonists] ...