Cartoonist
A full-time cartoonist at The New Yorker Magazine for over forty years, he has posted more than 1,400 cartoons on its pages. Former editor Lee Lorenz said of Ziegler’s work: “(He) expanded the idea of what a cartoon can be, seamlessly combining the features of a traditional panel with jokes with the features of a comic book storyboard. Thus, he prepared the ground for a new generation of comic artists…”
His cartoons have also appeared in Playboy, Esquire, Barron’s and The National Lampoon, Olive or Twist, How’s the Squid, Bow Wow.
He was born in Brooklyn on July 13, 1942. He grew up in Forest Hills, where the only artistic influence he could remember was an extreme interest in comics. He studied radio, television and communications at Fordham University in New York. He married his first wife in 1969 and they had three children. He remarried in 1996.
Throughout his career, he kept meticulous records, creating more than 24,000 cartoons and selling exactly 3,172, most of which were sold in the New Yorker. Most of his published works are now in the Billy Ireland Museum of Animated Art at Ohio State University.
Reference: jackziegler.com
