Hoff, Syd, 1912-2004

Sydney Hoff began his career in 1928, began his first syndicated cartoon series in 1939, was the star of a television series "Tales of Hoff," a prolific author and illustrator, and accepted advertising commissions from major United States corporations including Standard Oil and Maxwell House Coffee. His "Irving and Me" was on the New York Times Ten Best Children's Books list (1967).

Syd Hoff was born in New York City in 1912 and studied at the city's Academy of Design. One of the most prominent and prolific cartoonists in the United States, Hoff was also the author and illustrator of several early-reader classics.

Syd Hoff was born in New York City, NY in 1912; he studied art at the National Academy of Design; contributed cartoons to The New Yorker, Esquire, Look, and the Saturday evening post; he also drew the syndicated cartoon, Laugh it off; illustrated books, some of which he also wrote; most of these were written for children, including Danny and the dinosaur (1958), Sammy the seal (1959), Julius (1958), and Lengthy (1963); he has also published compilations of his cartoons.

SketchSyd(ney )Hoff was born in 1912 in New York, and he died in 2002. He began as a cartoonist in 1928 and expanded to illustrating in 1935, preferring to work in ink, washes, crayon and watercolor. He has written and self-illustrated over 60 children's books and has illustrated over twenty.

Biography

Syd Hoff was born in New York City, New York in 1912; he studied art at the National Academy of Design; contributed cartoons to The New Yorker, Esquire, Look, and the Saturday evening post ; he also drew the syndicated cartoon, Laugh it off; illustrated books, some of which he also wrote; most of these were written for children, including Danny and the dinosaur (1958), Sammy the seal (1959), Julius (1958), and Lengthy (1963); he has also published compilations of his cartoons.

Syd Hoff (1912-2004) was an American humor cartoonist, illustrator and author.

Born September 4, 1912 in New York City, Hoff attended the National Academy of Design and sold his first cartoon to the New Yorker while still in his teens. He became known for his cartoons about tenement and lower-middle-class life in the big city, which ran in the New Yorker . One of his recurring characters, a walrus-mustached man in trousers and undershirt, eventually appeared as the father in a daily strip called Tuffy, done for King Features Syndicate from 1940 to 1950. In 1957 Hoff began a new daily cartoon for King Features titled Laugh It Off which he continued until 1971.

His cartoons have appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Look, and other magazines, and he has written and illustrated several children's books including Danny and the Dinosaur . In 1976 he edited and published Editorial and political cartooning: from earliest times to the present, which contains over 700 examples from the works of the world's greatest cartoonists.