George Price (June 9, 1901 – January 12, 1995) was an American

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who was born in

Fort Lee, New Jersey Fort Lee is a borough at the eastern border of Bergen County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey, situated along the Hudson River atop the Palisades. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the borough's population was 40,191. As of the 2010 U.S. census, ...

. After doing

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artwork in his youth, Price started doing cartoons for ''

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'' magazine in 1929. He continued contributing to the ''New Yorker'' well into his eighties, displaying a talent for both graphic innovation (many of his cartoons consisted of a single, unending line) and for a wit that somehow combined the small issues of domestic life with a topical sensibility. Born on June 9, 1901, in the Coytesville section of

, Price lived in nearby Tenafly and died on January 12, 1995, at

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.Collins, Glenn
"George Price, 93, Cartoonist of Oddities, Dies"
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'', January 14, 1995. Accessed December 6, 2013. "George Price, a cartoonist whose eccentric comic visions of natural disasters, feuding spouses and the habits of a distinctively odd cast of characters were staples of The New Yorker magazine for nearly six decades, died on Thursday at Englewood Hospital in Englewood, N.J. He was 93 and lived in Tenafly, N.J.... Mr. Price was born on June 9, 1901, in Coytesville, N.J., in the borough of Fort Lee."

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