Wednesday Spill: Happy 90th Lee Lorenz!

Happy 90th, Lee Lorenz!

All best wishes to the great New Yorker cartoonist & editor Lee Lorenz on turning 90. Mr. Lorenz was the steward for (imho) The New Yorker‘s Second Golden Age, a period that saw the arrival of so many greats.

I’m listing all of the artists Mr. Lorenz brought in so as not to leave anyone out. In the years where no cartoonists are listed, no new cartoonists were brought in. 

 1974: Jack Ziegler, Bill Lee, Arnie Levin, Nurit Karlin, Paul Degen, Niculae Asciu, R.O. Blechman

1975: Bill Woodman, David Christianson

1975: Lou Myers, John Jonik

1976: Leo Cullum, Pierre Le-Tan

1977: Douglas Florian, Robert Mankoff, Michael Maslin, Jeff Kaufman 

1978: Roz Zanengo, Roz Chast, Tom Cheney, Gilbert Kerlin, J. J. Sempe

1979: Peter Steiner, Mick Stevens, Simon Bond, Michael ffolkes

1980: Mike Twohy, Jim Schmalzried, T.K. Atherton

1981: Richard Cline, Stuart Leeds, W.B. Park

1982: Liza Donnelly, Bud Grace

1984: Michael Crawford

1987: John O’Brien

1988: Victoria Roberts, Ann McCarthy, Danny Shanahan, Eric Teitelbaum

1989: Glen Baxter

1990: Edward Sorel

1991: Bruce Eric Kaplan (BEK)

1992: Andrea Arroyo, Jules Feiffer

1993:Tom Hachtman, P.C. Vey, Frank Cotham

1994: Gideon Amichay, Barry Blitt, Carol Lay 

1996: Barbara Smaller

1997: Aaron Bacall 

Here’s the Lee Lorenz Spill A-Z entry: 

Lee Lorenz  Born October 17, 1932, Hackensack, NJ. Lorenz was the art editor of The New Yorker from 1973 to 1993 and its cartoon editor until 1997. During his tenure, a new wave of New Yorker cartoonists began appearing in the magazine — cartoonists who no longer depended on idea men.

Cartoon collections: Here It Comes (Bobbs-Merrrill Co., Inc. 1968) ; Now Look What You’ve Done! (Pantheon, 1977) ; The Golden Age of Trash ( Chronicle Books, 1987); The Essential series, all published by Workman: : Booth (pub: 1998), Barsotti ( pub: 1998), Ziegler (pub: 2001), The Art of The New Yorker 1925 -1995, (Knopf, 1995), The World of William Steig (Artisan, 1998). New Yorker work: 1958 –.

And here are just four of his books, including his three cartoon collections, and his history of The New Yorker‘s Art, up to 1995.