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created on: 30/09/2025
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Ed Fisher (born on October 26, 1926, Bronx, New York, USA - died April 3, 2013 in Canaan, Connecticut, USA (aged 87)) was an American cartoonist who drew cartoons for The New Yorker from 1951 to 2000.
He contributed over 700 cartoons to the magazine, beginning with the issue of October 27, 1951. His last cartoon appeared January 17, 2000.
He also contributed to Playboy magazine.

Born in the Bronx on October 26, 1926, to a chiropractor and a professional singer, Mr. Fisher sold his first cartoon while attending Antioch College. Interrupting his studies, he served in the Pacific Theater in the Army Air Force. Returning stateside, he completed his degree and came back to New York home with a new wife, Ann Sharp. The young couple settled in Upper Manhattan.

Four collections of Fisher’s work were published: Ed Fisher’s First Folio (Macmillan,1959), Wine, Women and Woad: A Tale of Decadent Rome (Macmillan, 1960), and Ed Fisher’s Domesday Book (St. Martin’s, 1961). He was also a co-editor of The Art in Cartooning: Seventy-five Years of American Magazine Cartoons (Scribner, 1975). Maestro, Please! a collection of musician themed cartoons was published by Applause Books in the 1990s.

His son, Mark, who confirmed the death, said Mr. Fisher had advanced dementia and had learned he had Alzheimer's disease in 2000.