Isadore Jack ‘Izzy’ Parker, 84; Was Editorial Cartoonist

Isadore Jack “Izzy” Parker, 84, a humorist and cartoonist who satirized life in Greenbelt, Md., and national events for the Greenbelt News Review and other publications, died Oct. 11 of complications from diabetes in Lanham, Md.

In about 60 years as an editorial cartoonist, Parker used the curvy lines of his pen to comment on Greenbelt, the carpool culture of the 1940s, the plight of the ordinary man, and local and national poli- tics.

In the mid-1960s, Parker’s drawings appeared on the Washington Post’s editorial page twice a week. Later, they appeared occasionally on the Post’s op-ed “Drawing Board.”

A native of Chicago, Parker attended the Chicago Institute of Art in the 1930s.