Franklyn Bruce Modell (September 6, 1917 – May 27, 2016) was an American cartoonist who contributed over 1,400 cartoons to ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

'' during a period of over 50 years from 1946. Franklyn Bruce Modell was born on September 6, 1917 in

Philadelphia Philadelphia, often called Philly, is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the sixth-largest city in the U.S., the second-largest city in both the Northeast megalopolis and Mid-Atlantic regions after New York City. Sinc ...

. He was a graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, after which he served in the US Army in World War II in a signal radio intelligence company as a sergeant. Modell died on May 27, 2016 at his home in

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Modell, Frank 1917 births 2016 deaths American cartoonists American magazine illustrators Artists from Philadelphia The New Yorker cartoonists People from Guilford, Connecticut University of the Arts (Philadelphia) alumni