Charles Barsotti

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Charles Barsotti Formerly the cartoon editor of the The Saturday Evening Post, he has been a staff cartoonist at The New Yorker since 1970. His work has also appeared in Playboy and Fast Company, among other publications. A signature artist whose rounded, elegant, sparsely detailed style evokes both the traditional world of a James Thurber and the contemporary sensibility of a Roz Chast.

With his simple repertory — including a nameless but lovable pooch and a monarch whose kingdom consists of a guard and a telephone — Barsotti manages to miraculously dissipate the clouds in people's minds with his unexpected humor.

His work in comic strips includes:

  • C. Barsotti's People
  • My kind of people
  • P.J. McFey
  • Sally Bananas (1969-1973)
  • Funny Form (1974)
  • Punchline: USA (1975)
  • Broadsides (1975-1979)

He received the National Cartoonist Society Gag Cartoon Award for 1988 for his work.

Mr. Barsotti is originally from Texas and currently resides in Kansas City, MO.

[edit] Books

  • A Girl Needs a Little Action
  • Kings Don't Carry Money
  • From The Very Big Desk Of...: Business Cartoons by New Yorker Cartoonist Charles Barsotti
  • The Essential Charles Barsotti
  • Barsotti's Texas

[edit] References

  • Strickler, Dave. Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index. Cambria, CA: Comics Access, 1995. ISBN 0-9700077-0-1.

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