Bruce Eric Kaplan, known as BEK, is an American cartoonist whose single-panel cartoons frequently appear in The New Yorker. Kaplan's cartoons are known for their signature simplistic style and often dark humor. Kaplan is also a screenwriter and has worked on Seinfeld and on Six Feet Under.
Kaplan joined the crew of Six Feet Under during the first season in 2001 as a supervising producer. He scripted two episodes of the first season - "The Foot" and "The New Person". He was promoted to co-executive producer for the second season in 2002 and wrote a further two episodes - "The Invisible Woman" and "The Secret". He remained a co-executive producer for the third season in 2003 and wrote a further episode entitled "The Trap". He was promoted to executive producer for the fourth season in 2004 and wrote another episode "The Dare". He served as executive producer during the fifth and final season and wrote his last episode "The Silence". Kaplan wrote seven episodes in total for the series.
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Books
- No One You Know: A Collection of Cartoons (1999) Simon & Schuster ISBN 068485919X
- The Cat That Changed My Life: 50 Cats Talk Candidly About How They Became Who They Are (2002) Simon & Schuster ISBN 0743219449
- Every Person on the Planet: An Only Somewhat Anxiety-Filled Tale for the Holidays (2005) Simon & Schuster ISBN 0743274709
- Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell: A Story We All Really Need Now More Than Ever (2007) Simon & Schuster ISBN 1416545492
- This Is A Bad Time: A Collection of Cartoons
Six Feet Under episodes
- The Foot (2001)
- The New Person (2001)
- The Invisible Woman (2002)
- The Secret (2002)
- The Trap (2003)
- The Dare (2004)
- The Silence (2005)
Seinfeld episodes
- "The Merv Griffin Show" (1997)
- "The Cartoon" (1998)
- "The Puerto Rican Day" (1998) (with Alec Berg, Jeff Schaffer, Jennifer Crittenden, Spike Feresten, Steve Koren, David Mandel, Dan O'Keefe, Gregg Kavet & Andy Robin)
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