Nikolai Vladimirovich Remizov (; in Saint-Petersburg â 4 August 1975 in Riverside County), also known as Nicolai Remisoff, was a Russian and American artist, political cartoonist and art director of American cinema. He worked a number of times on films directed by fellow Russian Gregory Ratoff. Before the 1917 Revolution he was the leading artist in Russian satirical magazines Strekoza and ', in which he published his cartoons under the pseudonym Re-Mi.