Frank Modell


Franklyn Bruce "Frank" Modell was an American cartoonist who contributed over 1,400 cartoons to The New Yorker during a period of over 50 years from 1946.
Franklyn Bruce Modell was born on September 6, 1917 in Philadelphia.
He was a graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, after which he served in the US Army in World War II in a signal radio intelligence company as a sergeant.
Modell died on May 27, 2016 at his home in Guilford, Connecticut.