The Washington Post, June 29th, 2007
J.B. Handelsman, who used his dry wit to deflate human folly and injustice in hundreds of New Yorker cartoons, has died of lung cancer. He was 85. Mr. Handelsman died June 20 at his home in Southampton, N.Y., the magazine said Tuesday. In addition to creating 950 cartoons and five covers for the New Yorker between 1961 and 2006, Mr. Handelsman illustrated several books, and for 11 years, he did a weekly feature called "Freaky Fables" for the British humor magazine Punch. His work also appeared in Playboy and other magazines. His cartoons often had a political bent. "Bud Handelsman found a way ...
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