Herbert Johnson was an American cartoonist.
Born on October 30, 1878, Johnson attended the Western Normal College and the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and began his professional career as the assistant cartoonist at the Denver Republican in 1896. After Denver, he found employment at the Kansas City Journal, as a freelance cartoonist in New York, and at the Philadelphia North American, before landing with The Saturday Evening Post. Johnson served as the Post’s art editor and cartoonist from 1912 to 1915 and continued as a cartoonist until his retirement in 1941.