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Walt Disney
Walt Disney co-created Mickey Mouse in 1928 alongside animator Ub Iwerks, and Mickey's debut in "Steamboat Willie" that same year is widely credited as one of the first cartoons to successfully synchronize sound with animation, a technical breakthrough that helped establish Disney's studio as an industry leader almost immediately. Disney's studio released "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" in 1937, the first full-length cel-animated feature film in American film history, a project many in the industry had predicted would fail commercially given the unprecedented scale of hand-drawn animation required. Disney personally voiced Mickey Mouse for two decades, and while his own direct animation drawing skills diminished as the studio grew, he remained deeply involved in story development and production oversight across the studio's growing catalog of animated features. His combination of co-creating one of the most recognizable cartoon characters ever drawn and his pioneering role releasing the first full-length animated feature film has made Disney one of the most historically significant figures in the entire history of American animation.
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Jim Davis
Jim Davis created "Garfield" in 1978, and the strip went on to become one of the most widely syndicated comic strips in the world, appearing in thousands of newspapers across dozens of countries at its peak circulation. Davis has said he deliberately designed Garfield around universally relatable, low-stakes themes, including laziness, hunger for lasagna, and disdain for Mondays, specifically to maximize the strip's broad, easily translatable appeal across different cultures and age groups rather than relying on topical or culturally specific humor. Garfield's commercial licensing became a substantial business in its own right, with Davis building an extensive merchandising operation, Paws, Incorporated, that has kept the character present across toys, television specials, and film adaptations for more than four decades. His combination of Garfield's record-setting global newspaper syndication and his extensive standalone licensing business has made Davis one of the most commercially successful cartoonists in publishing history.
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