Charles Barsotti

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Charles Barsotti is a cartoonist based in the United States. He was the cartoon editor of the The Saturday Evening Post and 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 (1969)
Kings Don't Carry Money (Aug. 1983)
Barsotti's Texas (Jul. 1986)
The Essential Charles Barsotti (Oct. 1, 1998)
From The Very Big Desk Of...: Business Cartoons by New Yorker Cartoonist Charles Barsotti (May 17, 2006)
They Moved My Bowl: Dog Cartoons by New Yorker Cartoonist Charles Barsotti (May 15, 2007)