Frank Modell
# Frank Modell

Franklyn Bruce Modell (September 6, 1917 – May 27, 2016) was an American cartoonist who contributed over 1,400 cartoons to The New Yorker during a period of over 50 years from 1946.

Franklyn Bruce Modell was born on September 6, 1917, in Philadelphia.

He was a graduate of the Philadelphia Museum School of Industrial Art, after which he served in the US Army in World War II in a signal radio intelligence company as a sergeant.

Modell died on May 27, 2016, at his home in Guilford, Connecticut.

