“I just fell into cartooning and it turned out I had a real knack for it,” he once said.
Born in Hackensack, New Jersey in 1932, the illustrator had a storied career atmagazine from 1956 to the late 2010s. But it began only after he finally moved past his first love, jazz, and found he was able to make money cartooning for magazines, according to an obituary inThe Comics Journal in 2011. “She always wanted to be a writer or a poet but never got much further than the greeting-card business. My father wasn’t interested in the arts at all.
When he left, his income came from cartooning—at first by selling ideas for “gag” cartoons, then finally his own drawings to magazines. After being hired at the renowned magazine as a contract artist in 1958, he steadily moved up the ladder as he found his own style—which included his iconic, airy brush strokes—until he bagged the position of editor himself in 1973. He would hold the position of art editor until 1993, and cartoon editor until 1997.
Lorenz continued to make comics into the 2010s, and most recently wrote a short testimony of the life of legendarycartoonist and writer James Stevenson in 2017—painting a vivid picture with a description of Stevenson’s time at the storied magazine and his tap-dancing antics with another cartoonist, Frank Modell.
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