Abel Quezada; Mexican Political Cartoonist, Painter

Abel Quezada, 70, Mexican political cartoonist and painter. A popular and wealthy satirist, Quezada created cartoons for major Mexican newspapers including Excelsior, Novedades and Ovaciones. His paintings were widely circulated in the United States as covers for New Yorker magazine. He had painted a dozen covers for the magazine beginning June 16, 1981, with a sketch of a couple sitting on a Hudson River pier. On Thursday in Cuernavaca of leukemia.