#27: Sam Gross: The most absurdly funny gag cartoonist to ever wield a pen.

One of the most profane, absurd, and prolific cartoonists that ever lived, died today.

© Copyright, 1998, S. Gross. Buy this print here!

I really hate that this post comes days after a post about losing the great Al Jaffee, and moments after the passing of the great George Booth, and Ed Koren but here we are.

I’m devastated to hear that today, one of the funniest humans to ever hold a pen has left us. The great Sam Gross —prolific, absurd, profane and hilarious New Yorker cartoonist— is gone.

I do sort of feel strange calling him a New Yorker cartoonist because he was published in many other places, (usually on account of some of his gags being way too offensive to publish in the New Yorker.)