- Welcome to my salute to Cartoonists who paved the way for others like me in the cartooning industry. Their contribution was, & still is in being the early pioneers of Color who created & drew comics & cartoons during the 1920s, 30s, 40s, 50s & 60s. (70s on, see contemporary cartoonists) More often than not, when books were written in celebration of 100 years of cartooning art, they are not ...www.clstoons.com/paoc/paocopen.htm