Edward Koren, cartoonist who drew his shaggier alter-ego, dies at 87. Mr. Koren’s cartoons were an unmistakable fixture in the New Yorker and other magazines for more than 60 years.
Mr. Koren’s cartoons were an unmistakable fixture in the New Yorker and other magazines for more than 60 years. His characters, sometimes affectionately described as beastly, were residents of two locales he knew well — the Upper West Side of Manhattan, where he lived during the 1970s, and crunchy Vermont, where he moved to start a family.
Mr. Koren sometimes used children to pierce their pretentious parents. In a drawing of a family on a beach vacation, the parents read as their children build a large sand castle. In the caption, one child says to the other: “We’re a great team, Sash — you with your small and large motor skills, me with my spatial awareness and hand-eye coordination.”Calling his work “profoundly” autobiographical, Mr.
Edward Benjamin Koren was born in Manhattan on Dec. 13, 1935, and grew up in Mount Vernon, N.Y. His father was a dentist, and his mother was a teacher. His parents subscribed to Reader’s Digest and National Geographic, not the New Yorker.Mr. Koren excelled at drawing, so his parents signed him up for art classes on Saturday. He attended Horace Mann, a New York City prep school.
After graduating in 1957, Mr. Koren studied printmaking in Paris for two years and returned to New York to pursue a master’s of fine arts degree at the Pratt Institute in New York, graduating in 1964. He then moved to Providence to teach art at Brown University but left in 1977 to become a full-time freelance artist.
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Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren diesHe said he never ran out of material, often writing down what he heard people say as fodder for his art.
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Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren diesEdward Koren, a longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, known for his hairy, huminoid creatures, has died. Koren died on Friday at the age of 87 in Brookfield, Vermont, where he lived. Koren created more than 1,000 cartoons of the long-snouted creatures for The New Yorker, including covers, since the 1960s. He also wrote and illustrated books and served as Vermont’s second cartoonist laureate for three year. And Koren said he never ran out of material, often writing down what he heard people say as fodder for his art.
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Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren diesEdward Koren, a longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, known for his hairy, huminoid creatures, has died.
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