Charles Saxon

A satirist of the affluent.

Charles Saxon was born on November 13, 1920, in Brooklyn, New York. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University, he served as a bomber aircraft pilot for the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. Post-war, Saxon rejoined the editorial staff at Dell Publishing Company Inc. (a job he had as a teenager).

By the mid-1950s, Saxon had established himself as a go-to cartoonist and illustrator. His work was seen in corporate advertising, and in periodicals like The Saturday Evening Post, McCall’s Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and Newsweek.

In 1956, Saxon became a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. The work he created for Eustace Tilley’s mag would go down as some of the greatest of all time.