Arnold Roth

Arnold Roth

This is an article about Arnold Roth the cartoonist. See also Arnold Roth (Captain America).

Arnold Roth (born February 25 1929, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American freelance cartoonist. Roth cartoons have been published in numerous books and other publications. He drew the comic strip "Poor Arnold's Almanac" from 1959 to 1961 and again from 1989 to 1990. Novelist John Updike wrote "All cartoonists are geniuses, but Arnold Roth is especially so."

He received the National Cartoonist Society Advertising and Illustration Award for 1982, 1984, and 1985, Illustration Award for 1976, 1979, and 1981, their Magazine and Book Illustration Award for 1986, 1987, and 1988, their Special Feature Award for 1979, their Sports Cartoon Award for 1976 and 1977, their Reuben Award for 1983, and their Gold Key Award (their Hall of Fame) in 2000.

Further reading

* "Arnold Roth: Free Lance, A Fifty Year Retrospective", published by Fantagraphics Books, 2001.
* 'The Comics Journal", June 1991 - "Take Five", a 22 page interview with gary groth

Books by Arnold Roth

“Pick A Peck Of Puzzles" - W. W. Norton & Company, 1966.

“Arnold Roth's Crazy Book Of Science" - NY: Grosset & Dunlap, 1971

“A Comick Book Of Sports" - Scribners 1974,

“A Comick Book Of Pets" - NY Charles Scribner's Sons., 1976

“No Pain, No Strain" - New York, Saint Martin's Press, 1996

“Poor Arnold's Almanac" - Fantagraphics Books, 1998.

“Arnold Roth, Free Lance, A Fifty Year Retrospective” Edited By Lucy Shelton Caswell - Fantagraphics Books, Inc., Seattle, Washington, 2001.

Books Illustrated by Arnold Roth

“Wally The Wordworm” by Clifton Fadiman - Macmillan, New York, 1964.

“The Hater's Handbook: A Guide To The Wonderful World Of Ill Will: The Catcalls, Abuse And Caustic Comment Flung At Persons Of Note Throughout The Ages” by Joseph Rosner - Delacorte Press, NY, 1965

“Go On Wheels” by Julius Schwartz - NY Mcgraw-Hill Book Company, 1966

“Kids' Letters To The F.B.I. ” by Bill Adler - Prentice Hall, 1966

“Grimms' Fairy Tales, The Macmillan Classics”. Afterword By Clifton Fadiman - Macmillan Co., NY, 1966

“Isabel's Noel” by Jane Yolen - NY: Funk & Wagnalls, 1967

“In The President's And My Opinion... ” by Donald Pearce - Prentice-Hall, 1967.

“The President's Mystery Plot” by Franklin Delano Roosevelt; Rupert Hughes; Samuel Hopkins Adams; Abbot, Anthony; Weiman, Rita; S. S. Van Dine; John Erskine; Erle Stanley Gardner - Prentice Hall, New York, 1967.

“What Every Good Boy Knew About Sex” by Sam Blum - Bernard Geis Associates, NY, 1967

“How Many Miles To Galena? Or Baked, Hashed Brown Or French Fried? ” by Richard Bissell - Little Brown, Boston, 1968.

“The Horse that Played Centerfield” by Hal Higdon - Holt Rinehart Winston, 1969.

“Stark Naked: A Paranormastic Odyssey” by Norton Juster - Random House, 1969.

“The Inchworm And The Butterfly Peace” by Brock Brower - Doubleday & Co., NY, 1970.

“Little Spiro: His Letters, Poems, Essays, Songs And Drawings” by Ralph Schoenstein - William Morrow, New York, 1971.

“I Hear America Mating: A Hilarious Trek Through The Wilds Of Modern Sex. ” by Ralph Schoenstein - St. Martin's Press, NY, 1972.

“The Witch Who Wasn't” by Jane Yolen - Collier Books, New York, 1974.

“East Vs. West” by Ralph Schoenstein - Simon & Schuster, NJ, 1981.

“A Sports Bestiary” by George Plimpton - Mcgraw-Hill, NY, 1982.

“The Further Adventures Of Slugger Mcbatt” by W.P. Kinsella - Collins, Toronto, 1988.

“A Sound Heard Early On The Morning Of Christ's Nativity” by John Updike - Northridge: Lord John Press, 2002,

“Flying To Florida” by John Updike - Northridge: Lord John Press, 2003

“Diggin Your Own Grave: Over 350 Fullproof Ways To Totally Screw Up Your Life” by B. L. Andrews - St. Martin's Press, 1994.

“The Lexicon: A Cornucopia Of Wonderful Words For The Inquesitive Word Lover” by William F., Jr. Buckley; Harvest/HBJ Book, 1998.

External links

* http://www.arnoldroth.com/
* [http://www.reuben.org/ncs/members/biogs/roth.asp Reuben Award bio]


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