Louis Forton (born March 14, 1879, in Sées, Orne; died February 15, 1934, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye) was a French screenwriter and comic strip artist.

He is notably the creator of the famous satirical and humorous series: Les Pieds nickelés, created in 1908, and Bibi Fricotin, in 1928, continued after his death by Gaston Callaud.

For the launch of L’American illustré in 1907, he drew numerous stories such as Isidore Mac Aron, Anatole Fricotard, and Séraphin Laricot, under anglophone pseudonyms such as "Tom Hatt", "Tommy Jackson", or "W.

At the same time, he continued to draw for magazines such as La Vie de Garnison, as well as Mon Copain du Dimanche (1911) and Le Pêle-Mêle (1924).

[2] His son ran the bar des Mûriers ("Aux Pieds Nickelés"), Avenue Gambetta, in Paris, and his grandson Gérald Forton became a cartoonist like him.