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Endpoint: Seymour Fleishman (Illustrator)



created on: 24/03/2026
by: bob (10670)
 
 

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Seymour Fleishman (born January 29, 1918 in Chicago, USA - died May 22, 2012 in Chicago, USA (aged 94)) was a book and magazine illustrator.
He attended the Art Institute of Chicago between 1935 and 1941. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army in Australia and New Guinea, working as a cartographer and sometime illustrator of newsletters and officers' menus. After the war, he became an artist in the promotions department of the Chicago Sun newspaper. A few years later, he became a freelance illustrator. He did the drawings for almost 100 books, about 80 of them for children including The Blueberry Pie Elf and the books starring Gus the ghost written by Jane Thayer.
In the 1960s and '70s he contributed to Playboy magazine.
He wrote and illustrated several books including Where's Kit, Four Cheers for Camping, and Gumbel, the Fire-Breathing Dragon.
He married Esther Marcussen, the Sun's out-of-town circulation manager, in 1946, and the couple had two daughters.
He died after a brief illness in May 2012 at the age of 94.
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Married to [1946 - 2003 (her death)] : Esther Marcussen
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Submitted by : bob (10670)
on : 24/03/2026
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Last updated on: 24/03/2026