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Richard Taylor (1902–1970) was a Canadian cartoonist best known for his cartoons in the magazine The New Yorker. He signed his work Ric. Canadian comics historian John Bell called Taylor "one of the greatest New Yorker cartoonists".
Taylor was born in 1902 in Fort William, Ontario, in Canada. In the 1920s, he contributed to Toronto-based publications; he contributed for a year to Toronto Telegram newspaper, from 1927 to the University of Toronto's humour magazine The Goblin, and the Communist Party of Canada newspaper The Worker. Aside from cartooning, he produced commercial art and in his spare time painted. In 1935, The New Yorker began publishing his work, and he thereafter moved to the United States, where there were more opportunities for better pay for cartoonists. Taylor died in Bethel, Connecticut, in the United States in 1970.
Works cited
- Bell, John (2006). Invaders from the North: How Canada Conquered the Comic Book Universe. Toronto: Dundurn Press. ISBN 978-1-55002-659-7.
- Current Biography staff (1941). "Richard Thompson". Current Biography. H. W. Wilson Company. p. 854.
- Lerner, Loren R.; Williamson, Mary F. (1991). Art and architecture in Canada: a bibliography and guide to the literature to 1981. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-5856-0.
- Mouly, Françoise; Weschler, Lawrence (2000). Covering the New Yorker: cutting-edge covers from a literary institution. Abbeville Press.