Josep Simont i Guillén (Barcelona, 1875-Caracas, 1968) was a Spanish draughtsman and illustrator whose career unfolded largely outside his home country. He worked in France, England, Germany and the United States, where he contributed to widely read magazines and newspapers and achieved considerable fame.
After a childhood spent in Valencia, Alcalá de Henares and A Coruña, he trained in A Coruña with Román Navarro and in Barcelona with Ricard Martí. In 1898 he settled in Paris, where he began contributing to magazines, and between 1901 and 1921 he worked for L'Illustration. His illustrations from this period, in an almost photographic realist style, are especially remarkable for those devoted to the First World War.
In 1921 he moved to the United States, where he illustrated magazines such as Collier's and the Saturday Evening Post for the Cronwell Publishing company. He returned to France in 1932, and in 1939 he was awarded the Legion of Honour. After the Second World War he devoted himself mainly to portraiture. He settled in Caracas in 1962, where he died.