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1. Berkeley Breathed

   Author of Bloom County: Loose Tails, Bloom County Babylon, Toons for Our Times
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2. Garry Trudeau

   Author of The Doonesbury Chronicles, Doonesbury Dossier: The Reagan Years, Doonesbury's Greatest Hits
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3. Bill Watterson

   Author of Calvin and Hobbes, Something Under the Bed Is Drooling, The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes
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4. Gary Larson

   Author of The Far Side Gallery, The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit, The Far Side Gallery 2
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5. Don Martin

   Author of MAD's Greatest Artists: The Completely MAD Don Martin, Mad's Maddest Artist Don Martin Drops 13 Stories!, Mad's Maddest Artist Don Martin Steps Out!
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6. Scott Adams

   Author of It's Obvious You Won't Survive By Your Wits Alone, Fugitive from the Cubicle Police, Casual Day Has Gone Too Far
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7. Al Feldstein

   Author of Boiling Mad, The Questionable Mad, The Indigestible MAD
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8. William M. Gaines

   Author of Utterly MAD, The Bedside Mad, Fighting Mad
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9. Frank Jacobs

   Author of MAD - Cover to Cover: 48 Years, 6 Months, & 3 Days of MAD Magazine Covers, Sing Along with Mad, Mad for Better or Verse
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10. Dick Debartolo

    Author of Good Days and Mad: A Hysterical Tour Behind the Scenes at Mad Magazine, The Return of a Mad Look at Old Movies, A Mad Look at Old Movies
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11. Harvey Kurtzman

    Author of MAD Strikes Back!, Inside MAD, Humbug [2-volume set]
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12. Sergio Aragonés

    Author of Viva Mad!, Shootin' MAD, Mad About Mad
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13. Dave Berg

    Author of Mad's Dave Berg Looks at Our Sick World, Mad's Dave Berg Looks At Things, Mad's Dave Berg Looks at Modern Thinking
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14. Al Jaffee

    Author of Al Jaffee's Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, Mad's Al Jaffee Spews Out More Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions, Al Jaffee's Mad Book of Magic and Other Dirty Tricks
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15. Matt Groenig

    Author of Love Is Hell, The Big Book of Hell, School Is Hell
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16. Maria Reidelbach

    Author of Completely Mad: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine
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17. Charles M. Schulz

    Author of The Complete Peanuts: 1953-1954 Dailies & Sundays, The Complete Peanuts: 1950-1952 Dailies & Sundays, Peanuts: A Golden Celebration: The Art and the Story of the World's Best-Loved Comic Strip
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18. Antonio Prohias

    Author of The All New Mad Secret File on Spy vs Spy, Mad's Spy Vs Spy/Follow-Up File, Spy Vs Spy the Third Mad Dossier of
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19. E. C. Segar

    Author of Popeye, Vol. 1: I Yam What I Yam!, "Well Blow Me Down!", "Let's You and Him Fight!"
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20. Walt Kelly

    Author of Ten Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Years with Pogo, Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips, Vol. 1: Through the Wild Blue Wonder, The Pogo Papers
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21. Dave Sim

    Author of Cerebus, Volume 1, High Society (Cerebus, Volume 2), Church & State II (Cerebus, Volume 4)
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22. Will Elder

    Author of Will Elder: The MAD Playboy of Art, Little Annie Fanny, Volume 1, Chicken Fat: Drawings, Sketches, Cartoons and Doodles
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23. Charles Addams

    Author of The World of Chas Addams, My Crowd, Monster Rally
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24. Larry Gonick

    Author of The Cartoon History of the Universe I, Volumes 1-7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great, The Cartoon History of the Universe II, Volumes 8-13: From the Springtime of China to the Fall of Rome, The Cartoon History of the Universe III, Volumes 14-19: From the Rise of Arabia to the Renaissance
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25. Robert Mankoff

    Author of The Complete Cartoons of the New Yorker, The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Book, The New Yorker Encyclopedia of Cartoons: A Semi-serious A-to-Z Archive
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26. Darby Conley

    Author of Groovitude, Blueprint for Disaster: A Get Fuzzy Collection, The Get Fuzzy Experience
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27. Alison Bechdel

    Author of Dykes to Watch Out For, The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For, New Improved! Dykes to Watch Out For
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28. Bill Amend

    Author of FoxTrot : En Masse, FoxTrot: The Works, FoxTrot Beyond a Doubt
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29. Monte Beauchamp

    Author of Blab! (Volume 1), Blab! No. 3, Blab #8 (Blab!)
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30. Aaron McGruder

    Author of A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury, Boondocks: Because I Know You Don't Read The Newspaper, Public Enemy #2: An All-New Boondocks Collection
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31. Gahan Wilson

    Author of Gahan Wilson's Even Weirder, The Big Book of Freaks, Gahan Wilson: 50 Years of Playboy Cartoons (Slipcased) (Vol. 1-3) (Fantagraphics)
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32. The Onion

    Author of Our Dumb Century: The Onion Presents 100 Years of Headlines from America's Finest News Source, The Onion's Finest News Reporting, Volume 1, Our Dumb World: The Onion's Atlas of the Planet Earth, 73rd Edition
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33. Al Capp

    Author of Li'l Abner: Dailies, Vol. 01: 1934-1935, Li'l Abner: Dailies, Vol. 02: 1936, Li'l Abner: Dailies, Vol. 06: 1940
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34. Tom Koch

    Author of History Gone Mad, Mad Weirdo Watcher's Guide, The Mad Worry Book
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35. Art Spiegelman

    Author of Jack Cole And Plastic Man: Forms Stretched to Their Limits!, The TOON Treasury of Classic Children's Comics, Raw Vol. 2, No. 1: Open Wounds from the Cutting Edge of Commix
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36. Lou Silverstone

    Author of Politically Mad, The Mad Book of Horror Stories, Yecchy Creatures, and Other Neat Stuff, The Mad Book of Mysteries
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37. Jim Davis

    Author of Garfield at Large, Garfield Gains Weight, Garfield Eats His Heart Out
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38. George Herriman

    Author of Krazy & Ignatz 1925-1926: "There is a Heppy Land Furfur A-waay", Krazy & Ignatz 1931-1932: "A Kat a'Lilt with Song", Krazy & Ignatz 1927-1928: "Love Letters in Ancient Brick"
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39. Bill Blackbeard

    Author of Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics, 100 Years of Comic Strips
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40. Neil Gaiman

    Author of Death: The High Cost of Living, The Sandman: Preludes & Nocturnes, The Sandman: Worlds' End
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41. David Shayne

    Author of MADvertising: A MAD Look at 50 Years of MADison Avenue
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42. Jack Davis

    Author of Jack Davis: Drawing American Pop Culture: A Career Retrospective, ’Tain’t the Meat– It’s the Humanity!: And Other Stories, Some of My Good Stuff: Master Cartoonist Jack Davis Reveals Previously Unpublished Artwork and Other Rarely Seen Gems from His Personal Archives
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43. Floyd Gottfredson

    Author of Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 2: Trapped on Treasure Island, Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse Vol. 1: Race to Death Valley
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44. Lynn Johnston

    Author of I've Got the One-More-Washload Blues, It's The Thought That Counts: For Better or For Worse 15th Anniversary Collection, A Look Inside...For Better or for Worse (10th Anniversary Collection)
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45. Jules Feiffer

    Author of The Great Comic Book Heroes, Sick, Sick, Sick: A Guide to Non-Confident Living, Feiffer's Marriage Manual
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46. Andy Riley

    Author of The Book of Bunny Suicides, Return of the Bunny Suicides, Great Lies to Tell Small Kids
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47. Henry Beard

    Author of National Lampoon: Comics, Bored of the Rings
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48. Greg Sadowski

    Author of The Comics Journal Library: Harvey Kurtzman, Four Color Fear: Forgotten Horror Comics of the 1950s, Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth 1952-1954
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49. Jon Stewart

    Author of America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, America (The Book) Teacher's Edition: A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
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50. F. C. Ware

    Author of Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, The ACME Novelty Library : Annual Report to Shareholders and Rainy Day Saturday Afternoon Fun Book, Acme Novelty Library, Issue 01
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