Hy Eisman

Hyman Eisman was born in Paterson, New Jersey, United States on March 27, 1927.

Eisman entered the comic strip field in 1950 and worked on several strips, including Kerry Drake, Little Iodine and Bunny. In comic books, he illustrated various romance comics for Charlton Comics.{{Cite web |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/e/eisman_hy.htm |title=Hy Eisman |website=lambiek.net |date=March 28, 2025 |access-date=March 29, 2025}} He was also the last artist doing Little Lulu before it was cancelled in 1984.

From 1986 until 2006 (when the strip went into reruns), he wrote and drew The Katzenjammer Kids. An interview with Eisman on his career appeared in Hogan's Alley #15 (2007).{{Cite web |url=https://www.hoganmag.com/blog/getting-hy-on-comics-a-profile-of-hy-eisman |title=A Profile of Hy Eisman, Hogan's Alley #15 |access-date=November 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141112131226/http://cartoonician.com/getting-hy-on-comics-a-profile-of-hy-eisman/ |archive-date=November 12, 2014 |url-status=dead }}

From 1994 until 2022, he wrote and drew the Sunday strips for Popeye.{{cite news

| last = Cavna

| first = Michael

| title = Popeye is getting a makeover at age 93

| newspaper = Washington Post

| date = 2022-06-03

| url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/comics/2022/06/03/popeye-strip-randy-milholland/

}} In December 2008, Eisman re-introduced the character of Bluto to the Popeye Sunday strips, as the twin brother of Brutus.

In September 1976, Eisman, who lived in Glen Rock, New Jersey, became a teacher at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, where he taught until May 2019.

Eisman's first marriage was to Nathalie Adrienne "Adri" Abramson,{{cite news |last1=Yudelson |first1=Larry |title=Popeye the Sailor's man in Glen Rock Meet Hy Eisman, last of the old-time cartoonists |url=https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/popeye-the-sailors-man-in-glen-rock/ |access-date=10 April 2023 |work=Jewish Standard |date=December 20, 2018}} with whom he had two daughters. Adri, his wife of 42 years, died of cancer in the autumn of 1997.

On June 27, 2004, he married Florenz Greenberg, whose husband had also died in 1997. She was the managing editor at CavanKerry Press, a nonprofit publisher of literary works in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Their wedding invitation was a comic strip with Popeye and Olive Oyl.[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9402E3D8133BF932A25754C0A9629C8B63 Tung, Jennifer. "Weddings/Celebrations: Vows; Florenz Greenberg and Hy Eisman". The New York Times, July 11, 2004.] Florenz Greenberg died on October 20, 2013, in Glen Rock.

Eisman had one brother, Morris, who was married to Clarice Roy. Hy's nephews were twins named Michael and David. David had 3 children: Hy's great-nieces, Rebecca and Hilary; and great-nephew, Jonathan (who died in 1997).

Eisman died on March 27, 2025, his 98th birthday.{{Cite web |url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/e/eisman_hy.htm |title=Hy Eisman |website=lambiek.net |date=March 28, 2025 |access-date=March 29, 2025}}{{Cite web |date=2025-03-28 |title=Hy Eisman – RIP |url=https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/03/28/hy-eisman-rip/ |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=The Daily Cartoonist |language=en}}

Eisman won the 1975 National Cartoonists Society's Award for Best Humor Comic Book Cartoonist (for Gold Key's Nancy comic books). In 1983, he received a National Cartoonists Society Award for his work on the Little Lulu comic book.{{cite web |url=http://www.reuben.org/ncs-awards/division-awards#comic |title=Division Awards Comic Books |year=2013 |publisher=National Cartoonists Society |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216074848/http://www.reuben.org/ncs-awards/division-awards/#comic |archive-date=December 16, 2013 |url-status=dead |access-date=December 16, 2013 |df=mdy-all }}

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• {{IMDb name| 14530691}}
• [http://www.ncs-glc.com/GLC/welcome_mat/welcome001.html Glyph: Hy Eisman interview]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20040814205618/http://scoop.diamondgalleries.com/scoop_article.asp?ai=5361&si=124 Scoop: Hy Eisman interview]
• [http://www.lambiek.net/artists/e/eisman_hy.htm Lambiek]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20051118122938/http://www.kingfeatures.com/features/comics/katzkids/bioMaina.htm King Features biography]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20060106021759/http://www.reuben.org/ncs/awards.asp NCS Awards]
• Squirek, Mark. [https://archive.today/20101212175851/http://www.cagle.com/hogan/webextras15/Eisman/eisman_NCS.asp "Hy Eisman and His Adventures in the National Cartoonists Society"], "Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoonist Index", n.d. .
• Archive of McQuarrie, Jim, "Daryl Cagle's Political Cartoonist Index", n.d. [https://archive.today/20101212175851/http://www.cagle.com/hogan/webextras15/Eisman/eisman_NCS.asp WebCitation archive].
• Archive of McQuarrie, Jim, {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516175213/http://www.oddballcomics.com/article.php?story=2007-04-30 |date=May 16, 2007 |title="Bunny No. 12" }}, "Oddball Comics" (column), #1154, April 29, 2007

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