Emma Allen remembers the New Yorker cartoonist Sam Gross, who died this week, at age 89.
I learned in my twenties that it’s the octo- and nonagenarians who have the best gossip. When I started atwould call with scintillating tidbits long before they broke on Twitter. After I became the cartoon editor, in 2017, Sam Gross, who died on Saturday at age eighty-nine, was the man to see for news.
Pre-pandemic, when a gaggle of cartoonists would congregate atoffices on Tuesdays—in part to present me with their weekly offerings, but in larger part, I suspect, to chat with one another, air their grievances, and then go get lunch—Sam was the godfather of both gripe and gab, filling me in on the latest, and teaching new contributors the ropes.
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