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Endpoint: Richard Taylor (Cartoonist)



created on: 14/02/2024
by: Lo55o (12521)
 
 

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Richard Taylor (born 1902, Fort William, Ontario, Canada – died 1970, Bethel, Connecticut, United States) was a Canadian cartoonist best known for his cartoons in the magazine The New Yorker and in Playboy.
He signed his work R.Taylor.
Canadian comics historian John Bell called Taylor "one of the greatest New Yorker cartoonists".

In 1924 he got a job at the Evening Telegram, and created his comic strip 'The Mystery Men', which he signed with Dick. The strip ran for only a couple of months, after which Taylor became a commercial artist in Toronto.
In 1927 he joined the staff of The Goblin as art director. When this magazine folded as a result of the Depression, Taylor contributed to several left-wing publications, including Masses magazine and The Worker (creating the weekly strip 'Dad Plugg'). By 1935 he was hired by Simon & Shuster in New York to work for The New Yorker. He settled in the US in the following year. Some of his gags were written by Lee Lorenz.

Aside from cartooning, he produced commercial art and in his spare time painted.

In 1935, The New Yorker began publishing his work, and he thereafter moved to the United States, where there were more opportunities for better pay for cartoonists.

He is the author of The Better Taylors: An Album Of Cartoons By Richard Taylor (The World Publishing Company, 1945)

He married Maxine MacTavish in Toronto, Ontario and they had no children.
Taylor died in West Redding, Connecticut, in the United States in 1970 of prostate cancer.
The National Gallery of Canada has been gifted the vast majority of his lifetime's works.
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