New Yorker cartoonist Ed Frascino passed away this past Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 96 years old.
Via Michael Maslin:
"Ed contributed over 500 cartoons to the magazine in his 61 year run at the magazine. His last drawing in print was in January of 2025, but not too very long ago Ed told me that he’d sold a drawing for the magazine’s Daily Cartoon spot (I was supposed to let him know when it ran). A 61 year run at The New Yorker is, of course, remarkable. Only six other New Yorker cartoonists (out of the nearly 800 who contributed in these past 101 years) had reached that mark."
"While a contract cartoonist with The New Yorker since 1965 Frascino also published cartoons in Playboy, Saturday Evening Post The New York Times, Look, Esquire, Punch, The Saturday Review of Literature, and others.
"Frascino also illustrated many books by himself and by others.
"The Conde Nast Store has nearly 200 Frascino cartoons for viewing"
Talented and prolific, Ed was also my leading competition for The New York Daily News weekly cartoon that I would pitch every week to the editors there back in 2002-2003. It was not a guaranteed spot and you had to email some roughs mid-week for consideration. If I didn't sell one that week, it was usually Ed that succeeded.
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