Prolific Author, Cartoonist, Illustrator. He is best remembered for writing the 1990 book about a green monster, "Shrek!," which was made into the hit film that in 2002 became the first winner of an Oscar in the new category of best animated feature. He sold his first cartoon to the New Yorker magazine in 1930 and was hired as a staff cartoonist. The magazine was still publishing his work more than 70 years later. He had produced more than 1,600 drawings as well as 117 covers for the magazine. He also wrote more than 30 children's books, inducing Newsweek to dub him the "King of Cartoons." His cartoon style evolved from the straightforward worldly children he called "Small Fry" in the 1930s to the expressionist drawings of his later years that illuminated a word or phrase. Other notable children's books included "Roland, the Minstrel Pig," "Amos and Boris," "Dominic," "Abel's Island," "The Amazing Bone," "Caleb and Kate," "Doctor De Soto" and "Wizzil."
Prolific Author, Cartoonist, Illustrator. He is best remembered for writing the 1990 book about a green monster, "Shrek!," which was made into the hit film that in 2002 became the first winner of an Oscar in the new category of best animated feature. He sold his first cartoon to the New Yorker magazine in 1930 and was hired as a staff cartoonist. The magazine was still publishing his work more than 70 years later. He had produced more than 1,600 drawings as well as 117 covers for the magazine. He also wrote more than 30 children's books, inducing Newsweek to dub him the "King of Cartoons." His cartoon style evolved from the straightforward worldly children he called "Small Fry" in the 1930s to the expressionist drawings of his later years that illuminated a word or phrase. Other notable children's books included "Roland, the Minstrel Pig," "Amos and Boris," "Dominic," "Abel's Island," "The Amazing Bone," "Caleb and Kate," "Doctor De Soto" and "Wizzil."
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