Signed "To Die for a Creed" Cartoon by Ed Koren


Item Number: 284

Time Left: CLOSED

Value: Priceless

Online Close: Apr 23, 2010 7:00 PM EDT

Bid History: 14 bids - Item Sold!


Description

Ed Koren is a world renowned cartoonist most notable for his contribution to The New Yorker. This signed "To Die for A Creed" Ed Koren work is truly a priceless collectors item.


This piece features his familiar furry, spike-toothed creatures, jovial anthropomorphic monsters with keen wits, bizarre lifestyles, and all-too-human reactions to everyday problems.


Koren began his cartooning career at Columbia while drawing for the college’s humor magazine. After college, he went on to teach art at Brown University.


His first love was cartooning. Well known for his very hairy, very lovable characters, he got his artistic break in May 1962 when The New Yorker accepted one of his cartoons. It featured a sloppy-looking writer, cigarette dangling from his lips, sitting before a typewriter. Printed on his sweatshirt is one word: ‘’Shakespeare.’’


That cartoon launched a lifetime freelance relationship between Koren and The New Yorker. The magazine has published nearly 1000 of his cartoons and illustrations. After several years of continued publishing, he quit his teaching job at Brown University and devoted himself full-time to cartooning.


He has also contributed to many other publications, including The New York Times, Newsweek, Time, GQ, Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Vogue, Fortune, Vanity Fair, The Nation and The Boston Globe. He has collaborated with numerous contemporary humorists and authors, notably George Plimpton, Norman Mailer and Delia Ephron.


Koren's cartoons, drawings and prints have been widely exhibited in shows across the United States as well as in France, England and Czechoslovakia.


He currently resides with his family in Vermont where he is a captain of the Brookfield Volunteer Fire Department.

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Ed Koren