Manga artist
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A manga artist, also known as a mangaka, is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. As of 2006, about 3,000 professional manga artists were working in Japan.
Bow Ditama, a manga artist
Cartoonist
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A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons or comics. Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the literary and graphic components of the work as part of their practice.
Cartoonist Jack Elrod at work on a Sunday page of the Mark Trail comic strip
Benjamin Franklin's Join, or Die (May 9, 1754), credited as the first cartoon published in an American newspaper