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Endpoint: Al Ross (Cartoonist)



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Al Ross (born Abraham Roth on 19 October 1911 in the village of Seletyn, Romania - died 22 March 2012, The Bronx, New York, USA (aged 100)) was an American cartoonist and longtime contributor to The New Yorker.
He was born Abraham Roth in the village of Seletyn, Romania, and lived in Vienna as a boy.
The Roth family settled in East Harlem in the USA after World War I. Al Ross studied at the Art Students League and began selling his cartoons in the 1930s.

Ross published his cartoons in a great many magazines, including Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, Cosmopolitan and Maclean's, as well as Humorama magazines like Snappy.
Ross and his wife settled in the Bronx in 1937, the same year that Ross sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker.

Between 1937 and 1940 Ross published just three cartoons in The New Yorker, and they show no trace of his later style. He had another cartoon appear in 1940, and then there was a hiatus of nineteen years, until he reappears, in 1959.
He kept contributing to this magazine, although intermittently, until 2002 when already in his nineties.

He also published a couple of solo cartooning books. His style became looser and more minimalist throughout the years, and he eventually drew directly in ink with no preliminary sketching in pencil.

He had a particular affinity for Picasso’s work — one cartoon shows a figure borrowed from “Guernica,” seemingly drowning, with the caption “Incident off the Spanish coast.”

His three brothers — Irving Roir, Ben Roth and Salo — are also press cartoonists.
He died on March 22, 2012, in the Bronx at the age of 100.
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