About Edward Sorel
Edward Sorel is an American illustrator, caricaturist, cartoonist, graphic designer and author. His work is known for its storytelling, its left-liberal social commentary, and its criticism of right-wing politics and organized religion. Formerly a regular contributor to The Nation, New York Magazine and The Atlantic, his work is today seen more frequently in Vanity Fair. He has been hailed by The New York Times as "one of America's foremost political satirists". As a lifelong New Yorker, a large portion of his work interprets the life, culture and political events of New York City. There is also a large body of work which is nostalgic for the stars of 1930s and 1940s Hollywood when Sorel was a youth. Sorel is noted for his wavy pen-and-ink style, which he describes as "spontaneous direct drawing". Clay Felker founded New York magazine in the late 1960s and Glaser hired Sorel as its art director in the late 1970s. Sorel joined The New Yorker in late 1992 contributing a cover to the first issue edited by new editor Tina Brown. His first published illustration was A War for Civilization, which he sold to the satirical magazine The Realist; in 1961.
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