- This is an article about Arnold Roth, the cartoonist. See also Arnold Roth (Captain America) and Arnie Roth, the musician.
Arnold Roth (born February 25, 1929, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American freelance cartoonist and illustrator for advertisements, album covers, books, magazines and newspapers. Novelist John Updike wrote, "All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so."
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Magazines
Roth's artwork has appeared in TV Guide, Sports Illustrated, Esquire and The New Yorker. His cartoons and illustrations were contributions to the satirical magazines edited by his friend Harvey Kurtzman: Trump (1957), Humbug (1957-58) and Help! (1960–65). Roth’s cartoons began appearing in Playboy in the late 1950s. Playboy published ten multi-page installments of his “An Illustrated History of Sex” series in the late 1970s. Roth was a regular contributor of cartoon features to Punch from the late 1960s until the end of the 1980s. Roth had multi-page features in almost every one of the first 25 issues of National Lampoon (1970-72), until his last satirized the editors of the magazine.
Comic strips
Roth drew the comic strip Poor Arnold's Almanac from 1959 to 1961 and again from 1989 to 1990. Fantagraphics Books published a collection of this strip in 1998.
Awards
He received the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award for 1982, 1984 and 1985; Illustration Award for 1976, 1979 and 1981; their Magazine and Book Illustration Award for 1986, 1987 and 1988; their Special Feature Award for 1979; their Sports Cartoon Award for 1976 and 1977; their Reuben Award for 1983; and their Gold Key Award (their Hall of Fame) in 2000. On June 25, 2009, Roth was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.[1]
Further reading
- Arnold Roth: Free Lance, A Fifty Year Retrospective, published by Fantagraphics Books, 2001.
- The Comics Journal (June 1991) "Take Five," a 22-page interview with Gary Groth
Books by Arnold Roth
- Pick A Peck Of Puzzles - W.W. Norton & Company, 1966.
- Arnold Roth's Crazy Book of Science. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971.
- A Comick Book of Sports - Scribners, 1974.
- A Comick Book Of Pets - New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1976
- No Pain, No Strain - New York: Saint Martin's Press, 1996
- Poor Arnold's Almanac - Fantagraphics Books, 1998.
Books illustrated by Arnold Roth
- “Wally The Wordworm” by Clifton Fadiman. Macmillan, New York, 1964.
- “The Hater's Handbook: A Guide to the Wonderful World of Ill Will: The Catcalls, Abuse and Caustic Comment Flung at Persons of Note Throughout the Ages” by Joseph Rosner. Delacorte Press, NY, 1965
- “Go on Wheels” by Julius Schwartz. NY McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966
- “Kids' Letters to the F.B.I. ” by Bill Adler. Prentice Hall, 1966
- “Grimms' Fairy Tales: The Macmillan Classics”, afterword by Clifton Fadiman. Macmillan Co., NY, 1966
- “Isabel's Noel” by Jane Yolen. NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1967
- “In the President's and My Opinion...” by Donald Pearce. Prentice-Hall, 1967.
- “The President's Mystery Plot” by Franklin D. Roosevelt; Rupert Hughes; Samuel Hopkins Adams; Abbot, Anthony; Weiman, Rita; S. S. Van Dine; John Erskine; Erle Stanley Gardner. Prentice Hall, New York, 1967.
- “What Every Good Boy Knew About Sex” by Sam Blum. Bernard Geis Associates, NY, 1967
- “How Many Miles to Galena? Or Baked, Hashed Brown or French Fried? ” by Richard Bissell. Little Brown, Boston, 1968.
- “The Horse that Played Centerfield” by Hal Higdon. Holt Rinehart Winston, 1969.
- “Stark Naked: A Paranomastic Odyssey” by Norton Juster. Random House, 1969.
- “The Inchworm and the Butterfly Peace” by Brock Brower. Doubleday & Co., NY, 1970.
- “Little Spiro: His Letters, Poems, Essays, Songs and Drawings” by Ralph Schoenstein. William Morrow, New York, 1971.
- “I Hear America Mating: A Hilarious Trek Through the Wilds of Modern Sex. ” by Ralph Schoenstein. St. Martin's Press, NY, 1972.
- “The Witch Who Wasn't” by Jane Yolen. Collier Books, New York, 1974.
- “East Vs. West” by Ralph Schoenstein. Simon & Schuster, 1981.
- “A Sports Bestiary” by George Plimpton. McGraw-Hill, NY, 1982.
- “The Further Adventures of Slugger Mcbatt” by W.P. Kinsella. Collins, Toronto, 1988.
- “A Sound Heard Early on the Morning of Christ's Nativity” by John Updike. Northridge: Lord John Press, 2002,
- “Flying to Florida” by John Updike - Northridge: Lord John Press, 2003
- “Diggin Your Own Grave: Over 350 Fullproof Ways to Totally Screw Up Your Life” by B. L. Andrews. St. Martin's Press, 1994.
- “The Lexicon: A Cornucopia of Wonderful Words for the Inquisitive Word Lover” by William F. Buckley Jr. Harvest/HBJ Book, 1998.
Album covers
Roth created cover art for jazz albums:
- “Dave Brubeck Octet" (1950)
- “Breaking it Up! Louis Prima with Keely Smith” (1951)
- “Dave Brubeck Jazz at the College of the Pacific" (1953)
- “Phil Napoleon And His Memphis Five" (1955)
- “Cal Tjader's Latin Kick" (1956)
- “The Art Of Van Damme” (1956)
- “Jay & Kai + 6: Jay & Kai Trombone Octet" (1956)
- “Dave Brubeck Plays and Plays and Plays" (1957)
- “Boyd Raeburn: Fraternity Rush” (1957)
- “The Dave Brubeck Quartet in Europe" (1958)
- “The Famous Castle Jazz Band In Stereo" (1958)
- “Pete Seeger Sings Little Boxes And Other Broadsides” (1963)
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