Ilia Beshkov Dunov (Bulgarian: Илия Бешков Дунов; 24 July 1901 – 23 January 1958) was a Bulgarian painter, graphic artist, comics artist,[1] caricaturist,[2] cartoonist,[3] illustrator, writer and pedagogue.

In 1918–1920, he studied at the Faculty of Law of Sofia University and briefly returned to his native Dolni Dabnik as a teacher.

As a student, Beshkov published caricatures in the Maskarad, Div Dyado, Balgaran, Starshel and Vik magazines and illustrated the issues of the T. F. Chipev and Hemus printing houses.

He was twice arrested due to his leftist political views: once after participating in the June Uprising following the Bulgarian coup d'état of 1923 and then during the 1925 April Events in the wake of the St Nedelya Church assault.

In 1945, he became a lecturer of drawing, illustration and print design at the National Academy of Fine Art; he was elected a tenured professor in 1953 and led the Department of Graphics until his death in 1958 in Sofia.