Thursday, September 28, 2017

Hugh Hefner 1926 - 2017

Hugh Hefner died yesterday at the age of 91.

He was, before Playboy, a wannabe cartoonist himself. Here's a sample nicked from Sam Henderson's blog:



He made Playboy a great place to be a cartoonist. The magazine paid well and offered his regular cartoonists contracts. Playboy was, with The New Yorker, a coveted magazine market in the post-war years.

If you sold a cartoon to Playboy, you would get an official blue-pencilled "OK" from "HH" himself. He was, until recently, always involved in the magazine's cartoons. 

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