Jack Markow

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A selection of cartoon clippings by Jack Markow from Cartoon Humor magazine (1940s). Jack Markow (1905-1983) was an American cartoonist who also wrote instructional books about cartooning, comic strips and comic art. For three years, he was the cartoon editor of Argosy. 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. 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.

Jack Markow, a practicing cartoonist for many years, has had thousands of cartoons published in leading magazine here and abroad.

He studied drawing, print making and painting at the Art Students League under Boardman Robinson and Richard Lahey and at the Academie Moderne in Paris under Jean Marchand. He sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker, and since then his work has appeared in many publications, including the Saturday Evening Post, This Week Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, Holiday, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, Argosy, True, Sports Illustrated, Redbook Magazine, McCall’s Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Nation’s Business and Canada’s Weekend Magazine. His work has been reproduced in many cartoon collections, including Thomas Craven’s Cartoon Cavalcade and all editions of Best Cartoons of the Year.

He has done cartoon ads for such accounts as Tydol Gasoline, Post Toasties, Pepsi-Cola, Parker Pen, Martin Blades, Dentyme Gum, Bond Bread, Kelly Tires, Bacardi Rum, Angostura Bitters and Metro-Goldwyn_Mayer.

As a painter and print maker, he has exhibited in many leading galleries and museums in this country, and he has had three one-man shows in New York City. His work is found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, Hunter College, City College, Brooklyn Museum, University of Georgia, and others.

Mr. Markow’s varied experience also includes several years as Cartoon Editor of Argosy magazine and originator of the course in magazine cartooning at the School of Visual Arts, New York, where he taught for eight years. Many of his students are now prominent in the magazine and syndicate cartooning fields.

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A selection of cartoon clippings by Jack Markow from Cartoon Humor magazine (1940s). Jack Markow (1905-1983) was an American cartoonist who also wrote instructional books about cartooning, comic strips and comic art. For three years, he was the cartoon editor of Argosy. 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. 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.

Jack Markow, a practicing cartoonist for many years, has had thousands of cartoons published in leading magazine here and abroad.

He studied drawing, print making and painting at the Art Students League under Boardman Robinson and Richard Lahey and at the Academie Moderne in Paris under Jean Marchand. He sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker, and since then his work has appeared in many publications, including the Saturday Evening Post, This Week Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, Holiday, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, Argosy, True, Sports Illustrated, Redbook Magazine, McCall’s Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Nation’s Business and Canada’s Weekend Magazine. His work has been reproduced in many cartoon collections, including Thomas Craven’s Cartoon Cavalcade and all editions of Best Cartoons of the Year.

He has done cartoon ads for such accounts as Tydol Gasoline, Post Toasties, Pepsi-Cola, Parker Pen, Martin Blades, Dentyme Gum, Bond Bread, Kelly Tires, Bacardi Rum, Angostura Bitters and Metro-Goldwyn_Mayer.

As a painter and print maker, he has exhibited in many leading galleries and museums in this country, and he has had three one-man shows in New York City. His work is found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, Hunter College, City College, Brooklyn Museum, University of Georgia, and others.

Mr. Markow’s varied experience also includes several years as Cartoon Editor of Argosy magazine and originator of the course in magazine cartooning at the School of Visual Arts, New York, where he taught for eight years. Many of his students are now prominent in the magazine and syndicate cartooning fields.

A selection of cartoon clippings by Jack Markow from Cartoon Humor magazine (1940s). Jack Markow (1905-1983) was an American cartoonist who also wrote instructional books about cartooning, comic strips and comic art. For three years, he was the cartoon editor of Argosy. 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. 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.

Jack Markow, a practicing cartoonist for many years, has had thousands of cartoons published in leading magazine here and abroad.

He studied drawing, print making and painting at the Art Students League under Boardman Robinson and Richard Lahey and at the Academie Moderne in Paris under Jean Marchand. He sold his first cartoon to The New Yorker, and since then his work has appeared in many publications, including the Saturday Evening Post, This Week Magazine, Ladies’ Home Journal, Holiday, The New York Times Magazine and Book Review, Argosy, True, Sports Illustrated, Redbook Magazine, McCall’s Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Nation’s Business and Canada’s Weekend Magazine. His work has been reproduced in many cartoon collections, including Thomas Craven’s Cartoon Cavalcade and all editions of Best Cartoons of the Year.

He has done cartoon ads for such accounts as Tydol Gasoline, Post Toasties, Pepsi-Cola, Parker Pen, Martin Blades, Dentyme Gum, Bond Bread, Kelly Tires, Bacardi Rum, Angostura Bitters and Metro-Goldwyn_Mayer.

As a painter and print maker, he has exhibited in many leading galleries and museums in this country, and he has had three one-man shows in New York City. His work is found in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum, Hunter College, City College, Brooklyn Museum, University of Georgia, and others.

Mr. Markow’s varied experience also includes several years as Cartoon Editor of Argosy magazine and originator of the course in magazine cartooning at the School of Visual Arts, New York, where he taught for eight years. Many of his students are now prominent in the magazine and syndicate cartooning fields.