Word reached Ink Spill this evening that John Kane, whose work was first published in The New Yorker November 24, 2003, has passed away. 

This tribute from Derek Van Gieson:  derekvangieson.blogspot.com/2010/03/im-sad-to-see-you-go-john-kane.html

And from The Cartoon Bank, March 12, 2010,  "RIP John Kane" ( with a link to his New Yorker work):  blog.cartoonbank.com/2010/03/11/john-kane/