![]() ![]() ![]() On learning of her death Jules Feiffer told the New York Times she was the “Mother Superior to cartoonists.” Art directors like Arthur Paul, Michelle Urry, and Tom Staebler were influential trendsetters who sought out and nurtured new and veteran talent alike.Ībove: Michelle Urry was Playboy‘s Cartoon Editor for 30 years. Clarke, Bruce Wolfe, Ian Fleming, Don Punchatz, Saul Bellow, Anita Kunz, Phil Hale, Margaret Atwood, and many, many others (including the artists seen below) contributed regularly to the magazine. For a time Playboy was the highest-paying market for short fiction, cartoons, and illustration in the world: Ray Bradbury, Kinuko Y. ![]() In October it was announced that the venerable (or notorious or controversial or sexist or tacky, depending on your point of view) Playboy magazine would be redesigned and revisioned with the goal of recapturing the 18 to 35 reader demographic that they had, at one time, dominated.įounded in 1953 by Hugh Hefner with a $1000 loan from his mother, Playboy boasted a circulation of over 7 million at its height, was a high-dollar advertising venue (remember the “What kind of man reads Playboy ?” campaign ?), owned Playboy Clubs around the globe, produced films (such as Monty Python’s And Now For Something Completely Different ), published books (including an impressive line of science fiction titles), and in general, was a money-making machine. Be found on the secondary market for reasonable prices. ![]()
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