Danny Shanahan, a mirthful cartoonist who had a stand-up comic’s gift for one-liners but whose long association with The New Yorker ended last year under a cloud, died on Monday in a hospital in Charleston, S.C. He had been living in Mount Pleasant, S.C.From 1988 through last year, Mr. Shanahan published about 1,000 cartoons in The New Yorker. In one cartoon, a dog looks up from his menu in a restaurant, and asks the waiter, “Is the homework fresh?” In another, titled “Mr. October,” a headless New York Yankee reaches into his locker for his pumpkin head. In a third, called “Batmom,” Batman reads a message beamed to him in the sky that says, “Your sister got another promotion!”

Source: New York Times July 08, 2021 21:00 UTC