Lothar Meggendorfer
Lothar Meggendorfer was a German illustrator and early cartoonist known for his pop-up books.
He was first published in 1862 in the Fliegende Blätter, an illustrated comic weekly, and from 1868 in the bi-weekly Münchener Bilderbogen. He was the publisher of Meggendorfer-Blätter, an art and satirical magazine, from 1888 to 1905. He also illustrated a number of books with text by :de:Julius Anton Beck|Julius Beck, among them Neues Struwwelpeterbuch published by J.F. Schreiber in the 1890s, and created some 40 board games.
Every other year, the Movable Book Society awards a pop-up book prize named after Meggendorfer.
