Licensing for New Yorker cartoonist J. B. Handelsman is now exclusively available on CartoonStock!<\/p>\n
J. B. Handelsman drew nearly a thousand New Yorker<\/em> cartoons (and five covers), published between 1961 and 2007. His work also appeared regularly in Playboy<\/i> and the British humorous magazine Punch<\/i>. Handelsman may be better known for his captions than for the cartoons. He illustrated many books, including Families and How to Survive Them<\/i> and Life and How to Survive It<\/i>, both by Monty Python star John Cleese and psychotherapist Robin Skynner, and The Mid-Atlantic Companion<\/i> by David Frost and Michael Shea, plus a number of books for children.<\/p>\n According to Nancy Franklin in her postscript for the New Yorker<\/em>, “His work was concerned with politics and history and the range of our folly, from mere foibles to gross inhumanity. ‘Sometimes something historical gives you a better perspective,’ he said in a 1980 interview. ‘You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for thousands of years.’ ”<\/p>\n Below are a handful of our favorite J. B. Handelsman cartoons. You can see the full collection here<\/a>. On CartoonStock.com you can license J. B. Handelsman cartoons for use in presentations, publications, web, and classroom use, or buy prints and products featuring his cartoons.<\/p>\n