Farley Katz

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Farley Katz (born 1984) is an American humorist. He was a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker . [1] In October 2008, The New Yorker magazine online published an interview and "Cartoon Off" between Katz and Randall Munroe, in which each cartoonist drew a series of four humorous cartoons. [2]

Katz is the author of the book Journal of a Schoolyard Bully. [3]

He graduated from Harvard University where he drew cartoons and was an editor for the Harvard Lampoon. [4]

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References

  1. May, Matthew E. (September 7, 2010). In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing. Random House Digital, Inc. p. 103. ISBN   978-0-385-52650-0.
  2. Katz, Farley (October 15, 2008). "Cartoon-Off: XKCD". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on April 1, 2015.
  3. Jacobs, A. J. (August 19, 2011). "Middle School Mischief". The New York Times.
  4. "Farley Katz". Macmillan Publishers. Retrieved 27 January 2018.