“While other fellows were swapping wives, I traded mine for 100 shares of I.B.M.”

[lsanderson]

Michelle Urry, 66, the Editor of Cartoons for Playboy, Dies
By DOUGLAS MARTIN

Michelle Urry, who brought a wicked sense of humor, an uncanny ability to nurture eccentric artists and what she called an “inordinately dirty mind” to her position as cartoons editor of Playboy magazine, died on Sunday at her home in Manhattan. She was 66.

The cause was an ocular melanoma, a cancer of the eye, said her daughter-in-law, Justine Rosenthal.

For a generation — from the early 1970’s until her death — Ms. Urry sorted through more than 1,000 cartoons a week to come up with the couple of dozen or so to appear in the monthly magazine, then sent them on to Hugh Hefner for the final selection. Her taste — seasoned by a girlhood of reading comic books, the careful study of the history of cartoons and experience as a fashion designer — helped shape the famous look of Playboy’s cartoons. More

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"Little Willy's. Wade on in. The Water Ain't Deep"

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

With the caption:
"Oh my God. We've been discovered!"
Is STILL one of my favorite cartoons.
She'll be missed.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this. I didn't know she was still doing it. Come to think of it, she was probably the only cartoon editor whose name I knew.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, I sent them some cartoons around 1976. Oddly, they didn't accept them.