In 1840s O. Daumier made illustrations of some humorous essays on Paris life by Balzac; J. Effel illustrated La Fontaine's fables. J. Chapek illustrated his brother's books. H. Bidstrup also illustrated some books. Not a single serious research of the "Beatles" music is published without A. Aldridge's drawings, caricatures by R. Surle and R. Topor, which reflect the time of the pinnacle of "Beatles" popularity. As to musicians, they like their disks and cassettes to be illustrated with ironic or grotesque pictures with the elements of caricature.

V.Klemke hardly thought of himself as a caricaturist, although since 1949 his drawings were printed in humorous "Oilenspiegel". His name is usually connected with merry, bright, mischievous parody, acute irony, and kind and clever smile. He illustrated "School of Humour" by Y. Hashek, medieval stories and fables, works by M. Saltikov-Tshedrin, and "Humorous Sketches of German Trade Life". He also drew Til Ulenspiegel and Khodga Nasreddin. On the cover of the book "Trade of Sacred Little Fingers" he depicted a solemn train carrying a huge sausage.

It is next to impossible to imagine English art of the late XIXth -early XXth century without romantic A. Beardsley. He laughed being serious, dreamed like troubadour, and at the same time cynically joked. His illustrations to Aristophanes "The Lysistrata"(1896), "Witticisms" by Sheridan (1894), the 6th satire by Juvenalis are full of fantastic refinements and humorous obscenities. Of course, his eccentricity was scandalous, but it was like motive forces of his creative work. Beardsley, by no chance, made fun of his friends and enemies.

Satiric drawing of the XXth century has become anonymous, an artist is an equal co-author of a book.