Keynote nomination
In the interest of nominating people from my own household who happen to be internationally syndicated cartoonists, I nominate my father, Brooke McEldowney. One of his more recent projects within his comic strip “Pibgorn” was a reworking of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which involved the recycling of Shakespeare for purposes graphic, artistic and comic.
For more information:
Wikipedia article on him, which links to further Wikipedia articles on his two comic strips (I recommend checking those out before you check out the strips themselves)
9 Chickweed Lane (his main comic strip, the one seen ’round the world)
Pibgorn (his online-only comic strip)
(edit: oh, yeah. This was me, Nicola. Bonus points if you guessed.)