Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Edward Koren dies.
a longtime cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, known for his hairy, huminoid creatures, has died. He was 87.He created more than 1,000 cartoons of the long-snouted creatures for The New Yorker, including covers, since the 1960s. He also wrote and illustrated books and served as Vermont’s second cartoonist laureate for three years. Koren said he never ran out of material, often writing down what he heard people say as fodder for his art.
Koren, who was born in New York City, moved full time to Vermont more than 30 years ago to the tiny village of Brookfield, where he served as a volunteer firefighter.
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