Edward Frascino – RIP
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The New Yorker cartoonist Edward Frascino has passed away.
Edward Dominick (Ed) Frascino
November 15, 1930 – August 13, 2026
Michael Maslin has learned of Frascino’s passing:
Word has reached The Spill this afternoon that the prolific New Yorker cartoonist, Edward Frascino passed away last Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 95 (he would’ve turned 96 this November). Ed contributed over 500 cartoons to the magazine in his 61 year run at the magazine. His last drawing in print was in January of 2025, but not too very long ago Ed told me that he’d sold a drawing for the magazine’s Daily Cartoon spot (I was supposed to let him know when it ran). A 61 year run at The New Yorker is, of course, remarkable. Only six other New Yorker cartoonists (out of the nearly 800 who contributed in these past 101 years) had reached that mark.
Maslin’s obituary includes a 2020 interview with Frascino. The photo of Frascino above also comes from Maslin.
While a contract cartoonist with The New Yorker since 1965 Frascino also published cartoons in Playboy, Saturday Evening Post The New York Times, Look, Esquire, Punch, The Saturday Review of Literature, and others.
Frascino also illustrated many books by himself and by others.
The Conde Nast Store has nearly 200 Frascino cartoons for viewing.
feature image by Edward Frascino from E. B. White’s The Trumpet of the Swan
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