b. 1902 in Fort William, Ontario. Debuted with The New Yorker in 1936. As of 1940, when one of the photos below was taken, he was "liv[ing] in Connecticut, among the woodpeckers."
This guy's portrayals always gave me the creeps. Those ugly big eyes and sharp noses and all that.
Richard Taylor ("pos-[ing] in his studio at Worm's End") (from Introduction to Cartooning)
Taylor (from Cartoon Humor Vol,, 3 No. 1 March 1940)
:: The Better Taylors (1945) (inscribed) ::
:: Introduction to Cartooning (1947) (inscribed) ::
Compound Fractured French (1951)
Butchered Baseball (1952)
By the Dawn’s Ugly Light (1953)
My Husband Keeps Telling Me To Go To Hell (1955)
Nothing Brightens the Garden Like Primrose Pants (1955)