Richard Decker, a cartoonist and illustrator, studied at the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art and became famous for his cartoons published in The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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He did illustrations for "Look" and the "Saturday Evening Post" and did a number of advertisements for the "Philadelphia Evening Bulletin".

Ben Yagoda

Ben Yagoda

Ben Yagoda is a professor of journalism and English at the University of Delaware.Born to Louis Yagoda and the former Harriet Lewis, he grew up in New Rochelle, New York, and entered Yale University to study English in 1971...

has called Decker, along with Robert J. Day, "underrecognized New Yorker masters."

Further reading

• The New Encyclopaedia Britannica By Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc, 2002 Page: 547
• The world through a monocle By Mary F. Corey, Pages:235, 236
• Imagining Philadelphia By Philip Stevick, Page:130
• The perennial Philadelphians By Nathaniel Burt, Pages:34, 613
• Comic art in America By Stephen D. Becker, 1959, Pages: 128,130, 384
• Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930s By Robert Mumford, Lewis Mumford, Robert Wojtowicz, Page:255
• The Eleanor Roosevelt encyclopedia By Henry R. Beasley, Holly Cowan Shulman
• Cartoon cavalcade By Thomas Craven, Florence Weiss, Sydney Weiss, 1943, Pages: 262,299,397

• The American treasury, 1455-1955 By Clifton Fadiman, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Pages:vii, 244, 1076

External links

• The New Yorker Magazines's Timeline (refer Year 1941)
• Cartoons and Cinema of The 20th Century, A Persecptive
• Some More Work of Richard Decker for The New Yorker