Cartoon Artists

George Booth

George Booth grew up in Fairfax, Missouri, population 800. After two tours in the Marines, he attended Corcoran Art School in Washington, D.C. and Adelphi University on Long Island, where he now lives. His cartoons, often identifiable by their now-famous dogs and cats, first began appearing in The New Yorker in 1969.

Roz Chast

Roz Chast was born in Brooklyn and educated at the Rhode Island School of Design. She published her first New Yorker cartoon in 1978 and has gone on to contribute more than 10 covers and 500 cartoons to the magazine. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and their two children.

Robert Mankoff

Robert Mankoff sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker in 1977, and has been the cartoon editor at The New Yorker since 1997. He is the author of The Naked Cartoonist: A New Way to Enhance Your Creativity and the editor of the best-selling Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker. Mankoff lives in Hastings, New York with his wife and daughter.

Emily Flake

Emily Flake began cartooning for The New Yorker in 2008, and has had more than a hundred cartoons published in the magazine since. Her cartoons and illustrations have also appeared in Mad, the New York Times, the New Statesman, the Wall Street Journal, the Globe and Mail, and in many other publications.

Charles Barsotti

Charles Barsotti began his career at Hallmark and went on to become the cartoon editor of The Saturday Evening Post. His first New Yorker cartoon was published in 1962, and he has been known for his clean style of black and white drawing ever since.

Sam Gross

Sam Gross was born in New York City, where he still lives today. His work first appeared in The New Yorker in 1969, and he has remained one of the magazine's most prolific artists since. Gross was formerly the cartoon editor at National Lampoon and Parents magazine.

Leo Cullum

Leo Cullum is former airline pilot who started cartooning in 1971 while on a temporary furlough and sold his first cartoon to the Air Line Pilots Association’s magazine. Cullum's first New Yorker cartoon was published in 1977, and fans of his anthropomorphized animals and office humor have enjoyed his contributions to the magazine ever since.

Kim Warp

Kim Warp is an American cartoonist whose work has appeared in Barron's Magazine, Harvard Business Review, The New Yorker, Reader's Digest, and elsewhere. She received the National Cartoonist Society Gag Cartoon Award for 2000.