An American cartoonist and author, born in New York, USA. After graduating from James Monroe High School in 1947, he enrolled at the Art Students League of New York to study anatomy. In 1965, he wrote about his early years and received a prize in the John Wanamaker Art Contest...Read more for a cartoon depiction of the radio Western hero Tom Mix. He became a Senior Fellow at the Columbia University National Arts Journalism Program and taught at Northwestern University and Yale School of Drama. He accepted a job at Long Island University's graduate school. Among his many awards and accolades, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1995 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for political cartoons in 1986. He wrote more than thirty books, plays, and film scripts. In 1958, he published his first collection of satirical cartoons, "Sick, Sick, Sick". In 1963, he published his first novel, "Harry: The Rat with Women", and in 1965, he wrote "The Great Comic Book Heroes". His credits include Popeye (1980) and Little Murders (1971).
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An American cartoonist and author, born in New York, USA. After graduating from James Monroe High School in 1947, he enrolled at the Art Students League of New York to study...Read more anatomy. In 1965, he wrote about his early years and received a prize in the John Wanamaker Art Contest for a cartoon depiction of the radio Western hero Tom Mix. He became a Senior Fellow at the Columbia University National Arts Journalism Program and taught at Northwestern University and Yale School of Drama. He accepted a job at Long Island University's graduate school. Among his many awards and accolades, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1995 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for political cartoons in 1986. He wrote more than thirty books, plays, and film scripts. In 1958, he published his first collection of satirical cartoons, "Sick, Sick, Sick". In 1963, he published his first novel, "Harry: The Rat with Women", and in 1965, he wrote "The Great Comic Book Heroes". His credits include Popeye (1980) and Little Murders (1971).