Donald Reilly

Donald Reilly (November 11, 1933 – June 18, 2006) was a cartoonist best known for his long association with The New Yorker magazine. His style of drawing was to sketch quickly to achieve a feeling of spontaneity and to use his cartoons to make a social commentary on the times.

Formative years

Reilly was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 11, 1933, and began drawing for The New Yorker in 1964.

Career

Reilly created 1,107 cartoons and sixteen front page covers for The New Yorker magazine. His work had also appeared in Playboy, Mad, and Harvard Business Review amongst others.

In 1984, the town council of Garrett Park, Maryland voted to install a sign on a troublesome intersection, with the text "At Least Slow Down (formerly STOP)" (based on one of Reilly's New Yorker cartoons).[1]

Death

Reilly died from cancer at the age of seventy-two in Norwalk, Connecticut on June 18, 2006.[1]

References
  1. Margalit Fox (20 June 2006). "Donald Reilly, a Cartoonist for New Yorker, Dies at 72" 20 June 2006". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 June 2006.


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