Edward Sorel was born on Edward Schwartz, 26 March 1929 and is an American illustrator, caricaturist, cartoonist, graphic designer and author.
22 Facts About Edward Sorel
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Edward Sorel's work is known for its storytelling, its left-liberal social commentary, and its criticism of right-wing politics and organized religion.
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Edward Sorel has been hailed by The New York Times as "one of America's foremost political satirists".
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Edward Sorel is noted for his wavy pen-and-ink style, which he describes as "spontaneous direct drawing".
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Edward Sorel was born and grew up in The Bronx, the son of Jewish immigrants.
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Edward Sorel's father was a door-to-door dry goods salesman, and his mother worked full-time in a hatmaking factory.
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Edward Sorel was a co-founder of Push Pin Studios with Milton Glaser, Seymour Chwast, and Reynold Ruffins in 1953.
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Edward Sorel's first published illustration was A War for Civilization, which he sold to the satirical magazine The Realist; in 1961.
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Edward Sorel then sold the magazine a cartoon satirizing the glamor of the Kennedy family, an early example of his parody movie posters.
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Edward Sorel contributed covers and features to early issues of National Lampoon.
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When Felker bought the Village Voice in 1974 Edward Sorel was given a weekly spot there, which lasted for most of the 1970s.
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Edward Sorel joined The New Yorker in late 1992 contributing a cover to the first issue edited by new editor Tina Brown.
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Edward Sorel has contributed many illustrations, features, and 44 covers to The New Yorker.
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Edward Sorel's art has appeared on the covers of Harper's Magazine, Fortune, Forbes, Esquire, Time, American Heritage, Atlantic Monthly.
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Edward Sorel had a lengthy association with Penthouse, often lavishly reworking earlier drawings and ideas from his work for The Village Voice and The Nation.
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In 2016, Edward Sorel published "Mary Astor's Purple Diary," which was received with praise.
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In late December 2016, Edward Sorel received a rave book review by Woody Allen.
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Edward Sorel met his second wife, Nancy Caldwell, in 1963 at a Quakers Morningside Friends Meeting, and married her in 1965.
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Edward Sorel received the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award for 1993.
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In 2001, Edward Sorel was given the Hunter College James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Ed Edward Sorel serves as an Honorary Board Member of the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
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The SVA produced a documentary about Edward Sorel entitled Nice Work if You Can Get It directed by his son, Leo.