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Franklin P Modell

Franklin P Modell (1917 - 2016) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut.  Franklin Modell is known for Magazine cartoonist-The New Yorker.

Following is The New York Times obituary of Frank Modell,

"Frank Modell, Longtime New Yorker Cartoonist, Dies at 98"
By Sam Roberts, May 29, 2016

Frank Modell, a classically trained artist who contributed more than 1,400 cartoons to The New Yorker — customarily, he said, “of angry men and sexy women and dogs” — during an illustrious era for the magazine, died on Friday at his home in Guilford, Conn. He was 98.

A friend, Florence Hammond, confirmed his death.

For more than 50 years, beginning 1946, Mr. Modell’s moon-faced characters leapt from The New Yorker’s pages in a perpetual state of exasperation or pandemonium, evoking for readers their everyday vexations.

“The best compliment I ever had was from a young lady who liked a cartoon of mine,” he recalled in 1988. “She said, ‘It said something I knew, but didn’t know I knew.’”

His two-dimensional fun-house mirror reflected life’s little absurdities:

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