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created on: 24/04/2024
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Don Orehek (August 9, 1928, Brooklyn, New York, USA – December 6, 2022 (aged 94)) was an American freelance cartoonist who contributed gag cartoons to a wide variety of newspapers, magazines and books. On more obscure publications, he used several pseudonyms, including Sam de Sade, Di Benvenuto and Kobasa.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Orehek attended the School of Industrial Art, spent four years in the Navy and then studied cartooning and illustration at the School of Visual Arts.

The Oreheks lived in Port Washington, New York on Long Island. They also lived in Renton, Washington.

After graduation, he served in the U.S. Naval Reserves from 1945-49. He created an old crotchety navy veteran cartoon character named "Cyphers" for the base newspaper. Returning to New York, he took classes at the School of Visual Arts. By 1952, upon graduation, he was freelancing full-time.

By 1956 Don had become a full-time cartoonist.

His work appeared in Adam, Army Laughs, The Christian Science Monitor, Cosmopolitan, Cracked, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Look, Modern Maturity, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post and other publications, including one-shot magazines and specialized cartoon magazines, such as Prize Cartoons.

He has illustrated more than 30 paperback humor and joke books, beginning with Bob Vlasic's 101 Pickle Jokes in 1974. This was followed by The Official Name Callers' Book, The Laugh-a-Minute Joke Book (1989) and many more. His work has been reprinted in numerous cartoon collections, such as Sam Gross' Movies Movies Movies (Harper & Row. 1989).

Based on 28 years of recorded sales, Orehek and his wife Suzanne calculated that he had sold over 12,000 cartoons during his lengthy career.

He is a four-time winner of the National Cartoonists Society's Gag Cartoon Award (1972, 1982, 1984, 1985), and he received awards twice at Montreal's Man and His World exhibition.
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Submitted by : bob (9192)
on : 24/04/2024