Another in a series of looking at the very first and very last New Yorker contributions by its artists.
First & Last…Brian Savage
Brian Savage, who I’ve always thought of as a Playboy cartoonist (because he was very much a regular there) had 27 cartoons in The New Yorker. Biographical material about him seems to have slipped through the cracks on the internet. I can find nothing about him (other than Ink Spill’s entry stating he was born February 5, 1931, in Cambridge, Massachusetts). [Information is always welcome]. He published several collections of his Playboy cartoons, including So This Is Love (1972).
Here is Mr. Savage’s very first New Yorker cartoon. it appeared in the issue of June 17, 1972:
And here’s his last, from the issue of April 26, 1999:
