Lee Lorenz
{{Short description|American cartoonist (1932–2022)}}
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Lee Sharp Lorenz (October 17, 1932 – December 8, 2022) was an American cartoonist most notable for his work in The New Yorker.[http://www.artnet.com/artist/710714/lee-lorenz.html Artnet: Lee Lorenz]
Early life and education
Lorenz was born on October 17, 1932, in Hackensack, New Jersey.{{cite news |last1=Murphy |first1=Brian |title=Lee Lorenz, New Yorker cartoonist who cultivated new talent, dies at 90 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/12/10/lee-lorenz-cartoonist-dies/ |access-date=17 December 2022 |newspaper=Washington Post |date=10 December 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://michaelmaslin.com/new-yorker-cartoonists-z/ |url-status=dead |title=The New Yorker Cartoonists A – Z|last=Maslin|first=Mitch|website=Ink Spill|date=March 31, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512032844/https://michaelmaslin.com/new-yorker-cartoonists-z/ |archive-date=12 May 2020 |format=Archived by the Wayback Machine|access-date=December 17, 2022}} After studying at North Junior High School in Newburgh, New York, where he starred in student productions, he continued with his education at Carnegie Tech and Pratt Institute.[http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/lorenz_lee_eccefemina.htm Art of the Print]
Career
His first published cartoon appeared in Colliers in 1956, and two years later he became a contract contributor to The New Yorker, which has published more than 1,600 of his drawings. He was The New Yorker{{'}}s art editor for 25 years, from 1973 until 1993, continuing as cartoon editor until 1997.[http://www.cornwalllibrary.org/cartoonfest.html Cornwall Free Library] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100106000307/http://www.cornwalllibrary.org/cartoonfest.html |date=January 6, 2010 }}
Lorenz was a musician who played cornet with his own group, the Creole Cookin' Jazz Band.
Lorenz edited and wrote books on the art in The New Yorker, as well as the artists themselves, including The Art of The New Yorker (1995) and The World of William Steig (1998).
Lorenz is featured drawing in Lyda Ely's documentary film Funny Business (2009), which visited the studios of 11 cartoonists for The New Yorker.[http://funnybusinessfilm.wordpress.com/about/lee-lorenz-drawing-wide-copy/ Funny Business]
Personal life
Lorenz was first married to Joan Gaillardet. Together they had two children. Their marriage ended in divorce. He then married Jill Runcie and divorced. He then married and later divorced Jane Plant.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/arts/lee-lorenz-dead.html | title=Lee Lorenz, 90, Cartoonist and Gatekeeper at the New Yorker, Dies | work=The New York Times | date=December 10, 2022 | last1=Roberts | first1=Sam }}
Lorenz died on December 8, 2022, at his home in Norwalk, Connecticut, at the age of 90.[https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/12/09/lee-lorenz-rip/ Lee Lorenz – RIP]
Awards
He received the National Cartoonists Society's Gag Cartoon Award for 1995 for his work.[http://www.reuben.org/ncs/archive/divisions/gag.asp National Cartoonists Society Awards]
Bibliography
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- Here It Comes (Bobbs-Merrill Co., Inc. 1968)
- Now Look What You've Done! (Pantheon, 1977)
- Hugo and the Spacedog (Prentice-Hall, 1983)
- The Golden Age of Trash (Chronicle Books, 1987)
- The Essential George Booth (Workman, 1998)
- The Essential Charles Barsotti (Workman, 1998)
- The Art of The New Yorker 1925 -1995, (Knopf, 1995)
- The World of William Steig (Artisan, 1998)
- The Essential Jack Ziegler (Workman, 2001)
- Big Gus and Little Gus (Prentice-Hall, 1982)
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20111001043806/http://www.reuben.org/?page_id=389 National Cartoonists Society Awards]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20110928125609/http://www.cartoonbank.com/bin/venda?ex=co_wizr-locayta&collate=ivtype&collate=pdxtdecade&collate=pdxtpublicationdate&collate=pdxtpublished&fieldrtype=type&termtextrtype=invt&typertype=exact&fieldcatrestrict=xancestorid&termtextcatrestrict=shop&typecatrestrict=exact&fieldpdxtartist=pdxtartist&typepdxtartist=exact&termorder=rtype:catrestrict:pdxtartist&template=wz_locayta&pagenum=1&perpage=20&datasource=cartoonbankae&setsortorder=price,name&setsortprice=descending&setsortrelease=&setpagenum=1&termtextpdxtartist=Lorenz,%20Lee The Cartoon Bank]
- [http://www.tcj.com/lee-lorenz-cartoonist-editor-writer-jazzbo/ 2011 interview in The Comics Journal]
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