![]() ![]() He sold his first cartoon to the New Yorker two years later, in 1930, an association that would continue for the rest of his career. Taking the advice to heart, Hoff dropped out of school and managed to gain admittance to New York's National Academy of Design in order to pursue his ambition. Upon seeing Hoff's work, Gross predicted success for Hoff, telling him, "Kid, some day you'll be a great cartoonist!" according to Martin Plimmer in the Independent. When he was 16, a well-known cartoonist for the Hearst Syndicate newspaper chain, Milt Gross, visited his high school. He grew up in the Bronx, and began drawing at the age of four. "In Hoff's simple lines, a curve can serve as a smile or a snake, they can be read by four-year-olds and yet touch adults," declared Christopher Hawtree in London's Guardian newspaper.īorn in 1912, Hoff was a New York City native and son of a salesman. ![]() ![]() A cartoonist contributor to the esteemed New Yorker for more than six decades, Hoff was a masterfully elegant artist who was able to capture humor in just a few quick strokes of the brush or pen. Syd Hoff was both author and illustrator of more than 60 children's books, including the well-loved Danny and the Dinosaur, a 1958 classic. Born September 4, 1912, in New York, NY died May 12, 2004, in Miami Beach, FL. ![]()
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