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. Interviewed for the 1975 book, The Art in Cartooning, Reilly said, "The essence of the so-called 'gag' cartoon is its simplicity and directness."
Donald Reilly
- Born
- Donald Reilly was born on 11 November 1933. · Scranton.
- Died
- Donald Reilly died on 18 June 2006. · Norwalk.
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- United States
- Occupation
- cartoonist · caricaturist
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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. Interviewed for the 1975 book, The Art in Cartooning, Reilly said, "The essence of the so-called 'gag' cartoon is its simplicity and directness."
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Donald Reilly was a caricaturist and cartoonist, of American nationality. The caricaturist was born in Scranton and died in Norwalk.
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Donald William Reilly was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania on November 11, 1933, and began drawing for The New Yorker in 1964. Inspired by the animated fantasy film, Gulliver's Travels, he began to draw at the age of five. A trumpet student in high school, he became a lifelong jazz enthusiast who performed for weddings and parties as an adult when not working at his day job as a cartoon artist. After earning his Bachelor's degree in English at Muhlenberg College in Allentown in 1955, he enlisted in the United States Navy and served until 1957. He then earned his art certificate from Cooper Union in New York City in 1963. His second wife was Kathleen (Collins) Reilly.
Career
Career
Reilly created 1,107 cartoons and sixteen front page covers for The New Yorker magazine. His work had also appeared in Collier's, the Harvard Business Review, Look, Mad, and Playboy. 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).
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Death
Reilly died from cancer at the age of seventy-two in Norwalk, Connecticut on June 18, 2006.
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Donald Reilly is recorded with the occupation caricaturist. Recorded as cartoonist and caricaturist.
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1933
Donald Reilly was born on 11 November 1933.
2006
Donald Reilly died on 18 June 2006.
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Donald Reilly was born at Scranton.
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Donald Reilly died at Norwalk.
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- 1.Rourke, Mary. "Donald Reilly, 72; New Yorker Cartoonist for 40 Years." Los Angeles, California: The Los Angeles Times, June 23, 2006, p. B8 (subscription required).
- 2.Rourke, "Donald Reilly, 72; New Yorker Cartoonist for 40 Years," The Los Angeles Times, June 23, 2006.
- 3.Fox, Margalit. "Cartoonist was New Yorker star." Miami, Florida: The Miami Herald, June 21, 2006, p. 4B (subscription required).
- 4."Cartoonist drew anthropology in microcosm." Toronta, Canada: National Post, June 21, 2006, p. AL7 (subscription required).
- 5.Rourke, "Donald Reilly, 72; New Yorker Cartoonist for 40 Years," The Los Angeles Times, June 23, 2006. They resided in Wilton, Connecticut.
- 6.Fox, "Cartoonist was New Yorker star," The Miami Herald, June 21, 2006.
- 7.Rourke, "Donald Reilly, 72; New Yorker Cartoonist for 40 Years," The Los Angeles Times, June 23, 2006.
- 8.Margalit Fox. Donald Reilly, a Cartoonist for New Yorker, Dies at 72" 20 June 2006. The New York Times. 20 June 2006.
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