New Yorker cartoonist Charles Barsotti has passed away at age 80.
“He got the maximum out of the minimum,” said Robert Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker magazine, which has published nearly 1,400 Barsotti cartoons since the 1960s. “With just a few lines he could delineate a hobo, a spy, a king, a philosopher, a dog, a judge, all those in the same picture.”
He was one of my favorites. Thankfully he filled the world with a lot of cartoons before he said goodbye
That’s a loss, but he had a good run! I was just thinking about him yesterday and his astonishing economy of line.
Love Barsotti! His humour and line work! His work will endure… sad to hear of his passing…
He was one of my favorites. A great minimalist and humorist. He will be greatly missed.
One of the greatest. Often in just a few spare lines and words, he could tell us everything we needed to know about the human race – and the dog race. Thank you Charles Barsotti.