George Price; Cartoons Ran in New Yorker for 62 Years

George Price, 93, whose angular cartoons featuring dumpy people and three-dimensional hat stands or antler-horn chairs appeared in the New Yorker magazine for 62 years. Born in Ft. Lee, N.J., Price began his career as an advertising artist for Life, Collier’s and other magazines. The New Yorker began using his cartoons in 1932 and published more than a thousand through last year. Price was credited with helping to change cartooning from a dialogue-based art form to a single frame that made a point either with or without a caption. When a paperback retrospective of Price’s work was published in 1989, Times reviewer Charles Solomon pronounced it “a hilarious anthology” and praised Price’s “considerable graphic skill” and “off-the-wall sense of humor.” Announced on Sunday in Tenafly, N.J.