Bill Ritchie (1st August 1931-25th January 2010) was a Scottish comic artist who worked for DC Thomson's various humour comics from the 1950's until 1990 (though he continued to draw cartoons for Thomson's newspaper The Weekly News until he was 78). Strips he created or worked on included Baby Crockett, The Moonsters, Barney Bulldog, Sweet Sue and Simple Spyman.