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This page includes lots of biographical and career information of the cartoonists who will participate at the CartoonFest in Cornwall. If you are curious about a particular artist, just click on his or her name on this list:
• Roz Chat
• Liza Donnelly
• Bob Englehart
• Joseph Farris
• Dana Fradon
• Mort Gerberg
• Bill Griffith
• Mark Hurwitt
• Ed Koren
• Cindy Kirk
• Bill Lee
• Robert Leighton
• Lee Lorenz
• Bob Mankoff
• Michael Maslin
• Geoffrey Moss
• Diane Noomin
• Victoria Roberts
• Danny Shanahan
• Marc Simont
• Elwood Smith
• Peter Steiner
• Jack Ziegler
Showcasing their craft: Read about the cartoonists who will participate at the CartoonFest
Roz Chast: While other artists take the viewpoint of the single, liberated woman, Chast is the stay at home mom who missed out on sexual liberation and all its glories. Still, her cartoons deliver a message about the feminine spirit… because without "Mom", it would all fall apart. How does her her personal career fit in? Less than two years out of college, she was added to the forty or so artists under contract to the New Yorker. The year was 1977. Since then, the magazine has continually published her work, from regular black and white cartoons to spread, back pages and covers. She has also provided cartoons and editorial illustrations for magazines and journals, from Mother Jones to Town & Country. There have been eight collections published of Roz’s work, the most recent being The Party After You Left, from 2004.
"Mommy, Becky said she's not going to put me in her memoirs."
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When Liza Donnelly started drawing cartoons for the New Yorker — 26 years ago — there were only three women being published by that magazine. Since then she has been a busy artist: writing and illustrating a series of children’s books about dinosaurs, editing four collections of cartoons,
including Mothers and Daughters, and, with Michael Maslin, Fathers and Sons, Husbands and Wives, and Call Me When You Reach Nirvana. Her most recent book, an illustrated history of woman cartoonists of the New Yorker entitled Funny Ladies, was published last October. Liza has also contributed cartoons and illustrations to the New York Times,
the Nation, Cosmopolitan and other magazines. Liza is on the faculty of Vassar College and lives in nearby Rhinebeck.
For more than 25 years, Bob Englehart, the first full-time editorial cartoonist for The Hartford Courant has been giving the paper’s readers a piece of his mind in the form of a drawing that says something pithy about a politician, a policy, an event, or perhaps the awesome performance of the Husky basketball teams. He has received many awards and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. While his cartoons have appeared in a raft of publications, among them USA Today, Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, the New York Times and the London Times, Bob has found time to appear in a political comedy revue on Broadway and created with his wife, Pat McGrath, a comic strip called Moo. He lives and works in Middletown.
Joseph Farris is a staff cartoonist and cover artist for the New Yorker and his work has appeared in many other publications, including Harvard Business Review, Barron’s, the Wall Street
Journal, Time, Newsweek and the New York Times. He is also an accomplished painter and sculptor. Joseph has published a number of cartoon collections, the latest being Money, Inc. He did a daily feature called Farriswheel for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate and a pantomime feature called Phipps for the NEA syndicate. He recently completed a memoir, Elm Street, of his teen-age years growing up in Danbury.
Farris never moved all that far away: He lives in Bethel, Connecticut.
Not all New Yorker artists find working for advertisers amusing. Several years ago Mobil asked Dana Fradon, who has been lampooning businessmen many years, to contribute drawings for an issues-oriented ad that appeared in 503 Sunday
newspapers. "I sent in some sketches,'' he said, ''but they were all anti-Mobil. None got used. No one could pay me enough to work for oil companies if I had to make fun of the government's attempt to regulate them." Dana Fradon figures that since 1950 he has been responsible for around 1,400 cartoons or cartoon ideas that have appeared in the New Yorker. He has also found time to publish many children’s book, including four prizewinners: A Medieval Trilogy; Sir Dana: a Knight; Harold the Herald, A Book on Heraldry, and The King’s Fool. Dana grew up in Chicago, where he studied at The Art Institute. He was later a student in New York at the Art Students League. His home is in Newtown, Connecticut, where he has served on the board of education, the town council and the zoning board of appeals.'
Mort Gerberg is a cartoonist and author best known for his magazine cartoons, which have appeared in The New Yorker, Harvard Business Review, and Publisher's Weekly, among other publications. In addition, he has written or illustrated 39 books for adults and children, teamed with the late Shari Lewis in her home video Lamb Chop in the Land of No Manners. It took him a while to get to cartooning: there were five years of newspaper and ad promotion jobs. He then went off to Mexico for a year to work on his drawing and writing. He returned to New York to begin a hugely successful career as a freelance artist. He has also taught cartooning at New York's Parsons School of Design Proudest achievement: Cartooning: The Art and the Business.
"Are we having fun yet?" This utterance by the clown-suited Zippy the Pinhead has become so famous that it is now in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Zippy's creator, Bill Griffith, began his comics career in New York City in 1969. His first strips were published in the East Village Other and Screw Magazine and featured an angry amphibian named Mr. The Toad. He became prominent in the underground comics movement based out of San Francisco in the late 1960s, and along with Art Spiegelman, Griffith co-founded the comics anthology Arcade. There have been over a dozen paperback collections of his work and numerous comic book and magazine appearances.He produced comics strips for The New Yorker in the Nineties. Bill and his wife,
cartoonist Diane Noomin, live in East Haddam.
lecturer and gives a presentation on Woody Guthrie as a political cartoonist in conjunction with the Woody Guthrie Archives. He lives in Brooklyn.
Cindy Kirk is one of Cornwall’s resident cartoonists. Her work has appeared in many places from bank newsletters to children’s books, but for the past eight years — since 1998 — Cindy has been the editorial cartoonist for the Litchfield County Times.
Edward Koren has contributed cover art and more than nine hundred cartoons to The New Yorker since 1962. His numerous books include Well, There's Your Problem, The Hard Work of Simple Living: A Somewhat Blank Book for the Sustainable Hedonist, Quality Time: Parenting, Progeny, and Pets and What About Me? Among the several children's books that he has illustrated are How to Eat Like a
Child, and Other Lessons in Not Being a Grown-Up, Pet Peeves: or Whatever Happened to Doctor Rawff?, A Dog's Life and Very Hairy Harry. His art has been widely exhibited across the country and in Europe and is in a number of permanent collections, including the Fogg Museum at Harvard University and at museums at Princeton, the Rhode Island School of Design, and at the Swann Collection at the Library of Congress. Ed Koren lives in Vermont.
In the northwest corner of Connecticut, people enjoy Bill Lee’s work in the local weekly, the Lakeville Journal. But he has appeared in many major publications at home and abroad. He has been syndicated nationally and had his art exhibited in several museums, including the Van Gogh in Amsterdam. Bill has published seven collections of his cartoons, traveled on assignment to many countries, covered three political conventions and gives frequent lectures and slide shows on comic art.
Robert Leighton's work began appearing in the New Yorker in 2002. In addition to his cartoons, he is the co-founder of the puzzle-writing company Puzzability, whose book The New Yorker Book of Cartoons, Puzzles and Games has just been published. The book uses almost 700 cartoons from throughout the magazine’s history in dozens of ingenious puzzles.
The career of Lee Lorenz as a cartoonist began with a sale to Colliers in 1956. Two years later he became a contract contributor to the New Yorker and continues to appear there regularly, having
published over 1,600 drawings in the magazine. In addition he was the New Yorker’s art editor from 1973 to 1993, continuing as cartoon editor until 1997. Lee has published three collections of his own work, illustrated many books, including Real Men Don’t Eat Quiche, and written and illustrated twenty books for children. His Art of The New Yorker is a standard reference book. He has written a biography of William Steig and monographs on the work of Charles Barsotti, Jack Ziegler and George Booth. Lorenz is an acclaimed musician. He plays coronet with his own group, The Creole Cookin' Jazz Band.
Bob Mankoff has been the cartoon editor of the New
Yorker since 1997, twenty years after he sold his first cartoon to that magazine. In 1992 he founded The Cartoon Bank, a cartoon licensing, syndication and archiving business which grew into the largest computerized archive of magazine-style cartoons in the world. The New Yorker purchased The Cartoon Bank in 1997 and Bob serves as its president. His cartoons have appeared in four published collections: Elementary: The Cartoonist Did It, Urban Bumpkins, Call Your Office and It’s Lonely at the Top.
Michael Maslin has been contributing his cartoon art to the New Yorker since 1977. Four collections of his work have been published by Simon & Schuster, including The More the Merrier and The Crowd Goes Wild. He and his wife, Liza Donnelly have co-authored and co-edited several cartoon collections, among them Call Me When You Reach Nirvana, Husbands & Wives, and Fathers & Sons. They live in Rhinebeck, New York, with their two daughters.
Loyal fans of Geoffrey Moss have followed his captionless political drawings in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and many other publications. More recently came a published collection of drawings called The Art and Politics of Geoffrey Moss, with a foreword by Dan Rather. His drawings have been exhibited at the Kennedy and Pompidou centers and the Newport Art Museum. He has worked on many special projects such as his commission to commemorate the Rockwell Centennial for the new Norman Rockwell Museum. His latest book (co-authored for Simon & Schuster) is The Biker Code, and is comprised of black and white photographs and interviews about America’s motorcycle culture. Geoffrey began his career as an art restorer specializing in painted surfaces at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Diane Noomin attended the New York High School of Music and Art, Brooklyn College and Pratt Institute before becoming a pioneering woman cartoonist. She is the creator of the character Didi Glitz and the editor of the Twisted Sisters anthologies of women cartoonists. Diane created the first Twisted Sisters Comix with Aline Kominsky Crumb and has been published in many magazines, including the Nation. In 1981 Diane worked on a musical comedy based on her DiDi Glitz comic. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and fellow cartoonist, Bill Griffith.
Victoria Roberts is a renowned cartoonist and illustrator under contract to the New Yorker since 1988. Her work has appeared in the New York Times and the Australian, and her most recent books are Pills for Cats, Is Your Cat Gay? and Is Your Dog Gay? Victoria is also a writer and performer of monologues such as Nona, starring her oldest cartoon character, the Australian octogenarian Nona Appleby. The show premiered in Washington and then ran for a year at Urban Stages in New York City. Next came Nona Sings Steve, a cabaret show celebrating the songs of Stephen Sondheim at The Duplex in New York. In earlier years she did extensive theater work in Australia, where her parents had moved while she was a teenager.
A native of Brooklyn who now lives in Rhinebeck, New York, Danny Shanahan has been a professional cartoonist since 1984 and a contract artist to the New Yorker since 1988. He has sold more than 700 cartoons, covers and illustrations to that magazine and to many others magazines and newspapers, including Time, New York, Playboy and Esquire. His cartoons have appeared in many anthologies and he has published a collection of his own work called Lassie Get Help, plus a book for children, Buckledown the Workhound. He recently finished illustrating a new book for children, The Bus Ride That Changed America (The Story of Rosa Parks). Two collections of his lawyer and doctor cartoons—Innocent, Your Honor and I’m a Quack—were published last year.
Marc Simont has illustrated nearly a hundred books for children and worked
with authors as diverse as Margaret Wise Brown and James Thurber. He is the winner of both the Caldecott Honor and the Caldecott Medal. His most recent book is The Stray Dog, which he wrote and illustrated. He started contributing political cartoons to the Lakeville Journal during the Eisenhower years, and has continued doing so on and off ever since. These drawings, he notes, are opinions, not editorial cartoons.
Elwood Smith’s editorial clients include Time, Newsweek, Forbes, New York magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune, to name a few, plus many major advertising agencies worldwide. He has also written children’s books and two musicals for children with his wife, Maggie Pickard. In 1983 Maggie and Elwood moved from New York City to Rhinebeck, New York, where they reside with Sophie, a Scottish terrier, Girlie, “an ancient feline nut-case,” and Luigi, “the best cat in the world.” Elwood, not Luigi, studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and the Illinois Institute of Design and worked as the art director for a small publishing company and several ad agencies before beginning his career as a full-time illustrator.
Peter Steiner is a cartoonist, painter and writer who lives in the next town over from Cornwall—Sharon. His cartoons have appeared in the New Yorker, the Weekly Standard and other publications. His novel A French Country Murder was published in 2003. A sequel is in the works.
Jack Ziegler has been a major cartoonist for the New Yorker since 1974. Eight collections of his drawings have been published, beginning with Hamburger Madness in
1978 and followed by Filthy Little Things, 1981, Marital Blitz and Celebrity Cartoons of the Rich and Famous, both in 1987, Worst Case Scenarios, 1990, The Essential Jack Ziegler, 2000, How’s the Squid, 2004, and Olive or Twist, 2005. He has written one children’s book, Mr. Knocky in 1993, and is the illustrator of several books for adults and four additional children’s books.
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Program Details for Festival Day, Saturday June 3, 2006
10 AM to close of day:
Art exhibit, book and notecard sales, Thurber show reprise (Library)
10.15 to 11.45 AM: Caricatures drawn by Marc Simont (Library)
Noon to 1.15 PM: "Political Cartooning Today", Panel with audiovisual presentation (Town Hall)
1.30 to 2.45 PM: "But Is It Art? Cartooning as Creative Process", Panel with audiovisual presentation (Town Hall)
3 to 4 PM: Jazz Jam Session (Town Hall)
4 to 6 PM: Opening reception and silent auction (Library)
6 to 7.30 PM Picnic on the Town Green, Food for sale
7.30 PM Evening Cartoon Show with New Yorker cartoonist Victoria Roberts in her one-woman show Nona (United Church of Christ, $ 20)
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What the Lakeville Journal writes about the CartoonFest
Cartoonists Drawn to Cornwall for Cartoonfest
05-18-2006 -- By KAREN BARTOMIOLI
CORNWALL — A group of artists will exhibit together in Cornwall; nothing new about that. Not all of them will be from Cornwall, and that’s not new either, believe it or not.
A notable difference will be that you can laugh at their work and they might even be insulted if you don’t.
"Cartoonfest" is coming, with an exhibit and sale that will run for nearly three weeks — May 30 through June 17 — at the Cornwall Free Library. There will also be a Festival Day on June 3, with a schedule of events that is sure to have people holding their sides.
The whole potentially sidesplitting shebang is a fundraiser for the library.
The idea came from library association member Paul DeAngelis. Years ago, he published "About Town" in the Hudson Valley and, in the process, established a slate of featured cartoonists who are the basis for what, even then and there, promised to be a very funny fundraiser.
"Then I got to Cornwall, which is, of course, Thurber territory," DeAngelis said.
James Thurber’s first love was cartooning — and his work had a profound influence on those who followed him — but as his eyesight diminished in his later years he began to depend on illustrators such as Cornwall’s Marc Simont to help bring his ideas to two-dimensional life.
Thurber’s work — and a local retrospective of his art — spurred the idea for this year’s event.
"Last summer, when the Historical Society was doing the Thurber commemorative, the library was looking for a different kind of fundraiser," DeAngelis said. "This was perfect, and it cast a slightly wider net than ‘the usual suspects’ in Cornwall."
One of the Festival Day events will be an evening performance by Victoria Roberts of her one-woman off-Broadway show, "Nona."
"It’s based on a cartoon character, Nona, who was raised by bumblebees," DeAngelis said. "She’s very funny. After the show, about 12 New Yorker magazine cartoonists will come on the stage to talk about their work and to each other. They are very funny people, so I’m sure it will be a great time.
"Liza Donnelly, who is a cartoonist for The New Yorker, just published a book about women cartoonists with the magazine. There used to be
a lot of them when it first began, then they disappeared for some reason in the ’50s and ’60s, and are now coming back. She’ll be talking about that during the day."