About Lee Sharp Lorenz

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    "Lee Lorenz, 90, Cartoonist and Gatekeeper at The New Yorker, Dies," The New York Times, by Sam Roberts, December 10, 2022

    Over 40 years at the magazine he drew hundreds of cartoons and covers and served as art and cartoon editor, recruiting new talent and deciding who got published.\

    Lee Lorenz, a cartoonist and cartoon editor who over 40 years at The New Yorker introduced unconventional illustrators like Roz Chast and Jack Ziegler while publishing droll covers and some 1,800 cartoons in the magazine himself, died on Thursday at his home in Norwalk, Conn. He was 90.

    His death was confirmed by his daughter Martha Lorenz.

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