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Frank Modell

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Frank Modell
Born
Franklyn Bruce Modell

September 6, 1917
DiedMay 27, 2016 (aged 98)
Alma materPhiladelphia Museum School of Industrial Art
OccupationCartoonist
Known forcontributed over 1,400 cartoons to The New Yorker

Franklyn Bruce Modell (September 6, 1917 – May 27, 2016) was an American cartoonist who contributed over 1,400 cartoons to The New Yorker during a period of over 50 years from 1946.[1]

Franklyn Bruce Modell was born on September 6, 1917, in Philadelphia.[1]

He was a graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, after which he served in the US Army in World War II in a signal radio intelligence company as a sergeant.[1]

Modell died on May 27, 2016, at his home in Guilford, Connecticut.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Frank Modell, Longtime New Yorker Cartoonist, Dies at 98". The New York Times. May 30, 2016. Retrieved May 30, 2016.