A List of Exceptional Substack Cartoonists and Illustrators

Here's a collection of Cartoonists, Illustrators and related newsletters to follow on Substack

While Substack is a great platform for publishing one’s art, I feel it the community of Cartoonists and Illustrators could use more help on getting word out on our substacks.

To help further this goal, what follows is an ongoing list of my favorite artists and art related stacks.

I could have done an extended drill down to describe each newsletter, but instead I left it up to you to discover what tickles your fancy. Explore them all and have fun.

Cartoonists (Political, Editorial, Comic, Humor, or Other)

• A Cartoon Every Thursday - Katherine Bettis

• Audry Without an E - Audry Nicklin

• Be relentless: a creative life - Nolan Green

• Blind Squirrel Comics/Xion Studios - Charlie McElvy

• The Bob - Bob Eckstein

• Bors Comics - Matt Bors

• Bow Tie Press - Jamie Jones

• Political Cartoons & Comic Strips by Darrin Bell

• Day Dronk - Delaney Gibbons

• Cartoons by Hillary - Hilary Fitzgerald Campbell

• Comic and More - Rina Piccolo

• Comic Book Odyssey - Ulysses

• The Cosmic Gutter - Anthony Woodward

• Creating Comics - K. Woodman-Maynard

• Dean Haspiel’s Newsletter - Dean Haspiel

• Dove Square Comix - Caleb Collins

• Drawn By Tom - Tom Chitty

• Escape from Clowntown Comics - E.R. Flynn (What? You think I wouldn’t list myself?)

• Evil Inc. - Brad Guigar

• Finding My Inner Panda - Anne Belov

• Incindental Comics - Grant Snider

• The Ink Stained Wretch - Tom Richmond

• The Keef Knight Project - Kieth Knight

• The Greater Quiet - Steve Brodner

• Maddy Not Mommy - Maddy Buck

• Mark Fiore's Cartoon Update - Mark Fiore

• My View from Here…and Before - Dave Sattler

• New York Cartoons - Jason Chatfield

• Never Not Nervous - Brooke Barker

• Rono64 Comics - Ron Gravelle

• The New Futurists - Ben Bolling

• The Norm - Norm Rockwell

• Open Windows - Ann Telnaes

• Pat’s Substack - Pat Higgins

• Pen Strokes - Nick Anderson

• Sandra Bell-Lundy: My Cartooning Life

• Substack Lightning - J.C. Duffy

• Seeing Things - Liza Donnelly

• Serio Comics - David Cowen

• The Steckley Stack - Ed Steckley

• Sweater Weather - Michael Sweater

• Teal Cartoons - Face Ache - Adrian Teal

• The Tom The Dancing Bug Review - Ruben Bolling

• Toonstack - Assorted Cartoonists

• Uncouth Comics - Roseanne Thorne

• Weirdo Poetry - Jason McBride

• Woke Political Cartoonist - DoRano

• The World of Jimmy Robinson - Jimmie Robinson

• The Awesome Shannon Wheeler Newsletter - Shannon Wheeler

• Audry Without An E - Audry Nicklin

• Yuck! Travel Magazine - Mark Scott Ricketts

• Zoe Sees
  - Zoe Si

Click here for a list of even more cartoonists that was compiled by the folks at AutoGraphix and Soft things!

International Cartoonists

• Newsletter Do Aran - Edson Aran - Brazil

• Amorim Cartoons! - Amorim - Brazil

• Fábio’s Moon Base - Fabio Moon - Brazil

• +Humor - Brazilian Humor and Cartoons

• Betje’s Comics - Betje - The Netherlands

• Margreet’s Comics - Margreet De Heer - The Netherlands

• Alex Hallat’s Illustrated Epistle - Alex Hallat - New Zealand

• Editorial Cartoons by Alesh - Ebun Aleshinloye - Nigeria

Illustrators (Editorial, Children’s Books, Urban Sketching, Journalism and Other)

• A.W. Sketching with Sue Clancy - Sue Clancy

• An Artist's Life - Sandi Hester

• The Accidental Expert - Kyle T. Webster

• Authorstrator - Meghan McIsaac

• Catherine’s Studio - Catherine Rayner

• Colleen Doran’s Funny Business - Colleen Doran

• Dandelion Seeds - Candace Rose Rardon

• Digital India Ink - Jose Marzan Jr.

• Finding My Inner Panda - Anne Belov

• Illustrated Journalism - Bill Russell

• Nadia’s Nook - Nadia Salomon - London Ladd (illustrator)

• On The Spot - Gabi Campanario

• Pat’s Substack - Pat Higgins

• Pencil Pals - Helen Stephens

• Paint Here - James Gurney

• Rono64 Comics - Ron Gravelle

• See You - Carolyn Yoo

• The SneakyArt Post - Nishant Jain

• The Steckley Stack

• Teal Cartoons - Face Ache

Newsletters devoted to Illustration and its Creative Pursuit

• The Accidental Expert - Kyle T. Webster

• Notes on Illustration - The Illustration Department

• Illustrated Journalism - Bill Russell

• Paint Here - James Gurney

• The Habit of Art - Kelcey Ervick

Newsletters devoted to Cartoonists, Comics & their Creative Life

• Autobiographix Amaris Ketcham and Nora Hickey

• Be relentless: a creative life - Nolan Green

• Beyond the Process - Shane Patrick White & Lance Laspina

• Comic Book Odyssey - Ulysses

• Jack Kirby: The King of Comics

• Omar Morales on comic books and writing

• Pulp Empire - Nicholas Ahlhelm

• The New Futurists - Ben Bolling

• Serio Comics - David Cowen

• Toonstack - Assorted Cartoonists

I hope you find this list helpful. If you think I overlooked your newsletter and you’d like to be listed, please feel free to reach out to me via chat or in the comments of this post.