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Lou Myers (born April 12, 1915 in Paris, France – died November 20, 2005, in Cortlandt Manor, NY, USA (aged 90)) was a cartoonist and short story writer.
Though born in France, he was brought to New York City two years later with his family and grew up in the Bronx.

Myers went on to study at the Art Students League, as well as Columbia University, New York University, the New School, and the École des Beaux Arts. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, but his experience there was as an artist painting portraits and combat scenes. After the war, he spent most of his career as a freelancer working for various corporations or on his own publications. During his early years, he illustrated posters for Twentieth Century-Fox and Columbia Pictures. After marrying a children's book illustrator, he began contributing cartoons to French publications and illustrating books, including Art Buchwald's Paris after Dark (1955). His first foray into children's books was an adaptation of Puss-in-Boots (1955), on which he collaborated with his wife, Bernice. He went on to write and illustrate three more children's titles, such as Ha Ha Ha Hyenas (1971), as well as illustrating the works of other children's authors.

He was a satiric artist and graphic essayist whose expressive style helped modernize cartoons in advertisements and major American magazines.
He was the first person since James Thurber to contribute both cartoons and articles to The New Yorker.
His work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, Esquire, Playboy, Penthouse, The Realist, Lui magazine and Mother Jones.
He did the famous movie poster image for La Cage Aux Folles (1978).

His cartoons were collected in the books A Psychiatric Glossary (1962), Group Therapy (1965), and Absent and Accounted For (1980).
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