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Endpoint: Henry Martin (Cartoonist)



created on: 5/11/2026
by: bob (10999)
 
 

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Henry Read Martin (born July 15, 1925 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA - died June 30, 2020 in Newtown, Pa, USA (aged 94)) was an American cartoonist.

He was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Lyman and Adele Martin. He had an older brother Lyman Jr. and a younger sister Adele.

Also known as Hank, Martin was born in Louisville, KY, where he attended public schools until entering Texas Country Day School in Dallas, TX, now known as St. Mark's School of Texas. He graduated from Princeton University in 1948 with a degree in Art History, after which he attended the American Academy of Art in Chicago.

In 1953 Hank married Edith (Edie) Matthews and they settled in Princeton, NJ, where they raised their two daughters.

He was the father of popular children's author Ann M. Martin.
Henry Martin worked as a cartoonist and illustrator for more than 50 years, publishing in The New Yorker, Punch, Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, the Princeton Alumni Weekly and many other magazines.

He was also a longtime contributor to Punch magazine and The Spectator in England and for fifteen years had a daily syndicated newspaper cartoon called "Good News/Bad News." Collections of his cartoons included Good News/Bad News and Yak! Yak! Yak! Blah! Blah! Blah!, both published by Charles Scribner's Sons.

In the 1950s and 1960s Mr. Martin provided numerous comic illustrations for books published by the Peter Pauper Press in Mount Vernon. Martin received the National Cartoonists Society Gag Cartoon Award for 1978 for his work.


He retired in 1995.

He died on 30 June 2020 at the age of 94.
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