For Humor & Museum Lovers: The Work Of Bob Eckstein With His Top 10 Cartoons (16 Pics)

I’m a fan of Bored Panda, so this is a real treat to share my own stuff here. I’ve been creating humor my whole life and have appeared in MAD magazine, National Lampoon, SPY magazine, The New Yorker, and many others. I hope you enjoy the drawings!

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#1 It’s very difficult to make a living solely on cartoons so I also do other jobs…like teach. If you are familiar with any of my work, it may be this one as it is popular around the world. I’ve seen it painted on a doorway in India. I’ve seen it tattooed on someone’s backside.

#2 I’ve lived in New York City my whole life. I’m originally from the South Bronx of New York City and live now not far away at the northern tip of Manhattan with my wife.

#3 I married my college nemesis after we ran into each other a dozen years later (at a funeral). You never know.

#4 I often include people in my life in my cartoons. Especially if it will help pay the bill. The patient here is my mentor the late Sam Gross, who was the best cartoonist in the world. I tried cartooning on a dare from him. I sold my first cartoon I drew two weeks later to the New Yorker.

#5 Before that I was the world’s leading snowman expert. I had spent 7 years to solve the great mystery, who made the first snowman.

#6 I since published two books on the subject, the last in 2018 called the Illustrated History of the Snowman. It’s being adapted into a movie.

#7 I worked as a carpenter at one point and love doing home projects myself. Of course, I have no choice because I can never find someone to show up.

#8 I love writing humor, too and today I do stuff for American Bystander, Funny Times, AirMail Weekly and Writer’s Digest. I even have a piece coming out soon in Reader’s Digest. I feel very lucky to have all their support and that I try to make people laugh for a living.

#9 The first thing, I myself, found funny was the comic strip, Peanuts. I remember tracing that cartoon to learn to draw.

#10 The first audience I tried to make laugh was my family, of course. They were a tough crowd.

#11 Here is another cartoon for the upcoming holidays. It can take a few minutes to come up with a good idea for a cartoon…or sometimes I can work on a cartoon for a year or two before it kind of works. I’ve done about 2,000 cartoons. Some of them I like!

#12 Let’s all at least try to keep our sense of humor. One thing I do know America is best at, and that’s humor.

#13 I’ve been doing a lot of driving the past year working on an exciting new project…

#14 This is an excerpt from my new book, Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums: Stories and Memorable Moments from People Who Love Museums. It’s my love letter to these great institutions and a chance to showcase the other side of my work, illustration.

#15 One of my goals for my new book was to demonstrate that there is a museum for everyone, even those who hate art. As a matter of fact, the book includes The Museum of Bad Art. There are museums for cars, tennis, ships, even SPAM.

#16 I hoped I raised awareness for museums. We sometimes take for granted these great institutions. Maybe you can use my book as a bucket list. Thanks for looking.

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