Jack Markow (1905-1983) was an American cartoonist who also wrote instructional books about cartooning,
comic strip
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s and comic art. For three years, he was the cartoon editor of ''
Argosy
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Arts, entertainment and media
* ''Argosy'' (magazine), an American pulp magazine 1882–1978 and revived 1990–1994, 2004–2006
* ''Argosy'' (UK magazine), three British magazines
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Born in
London, Markow was a New Yorker from the age of two. He took art courses at the High School of Commerce (later Louis D. Brandeis High School), where he drew for the school magazine. His high school drawings landed him a job doing layouts and paste-ups in the sales promotion department of the Fleishmann Yeast Company, where he also illustrated for the company's house organ. He later studied drawing and painting at the
Art Students League.
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His cartoons were published in books, greeting cards, calendars, advertising campaigns and major magazines, including '' The Saturday Evening Post'' and '' The New Yorker''. He was a long-time columnist for '' Writer's Digest'' and ''Cartoonist Profiles''.
School of Visual Arts
Markow was one of the first faculty members at New York's School of Visual Arts, where he originated the magazine cartooning course and taught for eight years.
Books
In addition to his ''Cartoon Consultants Calendar'' (Cartoon Consultants, 1952), Markow wrote four how-to books: ''Cartoonists and Gag Writers Handbook'', ''Drawing and Selling Cartoons'' (Pitman Publishing, 1956), ''Drawing Comic Strips'' and ''Drawing Funny Pictures''.[
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Exhibitions
As a painter and graphic artist, Markow had three one-man shows in New York and was exhibited in group shows of major museums. His lithographs are in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum, the New Jersey State Museum, the Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum, the University of Georgia, the University of Oregon and City College. He was included in ''50 Best American Prints, 1933-38''.[
Markow lived in Manasquan, New Jersey, where he died in 1983.
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Awards
He received the National Cartoonists Society
The National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards. The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the ...
's 1979 Gag Cartoon Award and a prize at Montreal's 1972 International Cartoon Show.
References
External links
NCS AwardsMetropolitan Museum of Art: Jack Markow
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1905 births
1983 deaths
American cartoonists
People from Manasquan, New Jersey
Federal Art Project artists