About Frank Modell
Frank Modell was born in Philadelphia and studied at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art. Upon graduating, he was drafted, saw Great Britain, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Germany. All that time he was sending cartoon ideas to the New Yorker. When the war was over, he married, got divorced, and joined the New Yorker staff. His cartoons appeared in the magazine from 1945 to 1995. Modell also wrote and illustrated children‘s books, tried off-Broadway acting, and did a bit part in a Woody Allen movie. He paints and makes sketches everywhere he goes.