Arnold Roth

Bio

Arnold Roth has been drawing his whole life. A star student at the Philadelphia College of Art, he was expelled for chronic tardiness from late night gigs playing alto sax. His cartoons, illustrations, ads, album covers, magazine covers, and writing span generations. Called “a comedian on paper” by modern master Drew Friedman, Roth worked for Punch Magazine in London and Mad Magazine in New York City. In recent years, Roth and his wife Caroline traded their house in Princeton, NJ for an apartment in a Manhattan highrise full of old-timers. He plays his sax less now that it disturbs neighbors. The Roths are packing up his life’s work to be archived by the Billy Ireland Cartoon Research Library & Museum at Ohio State University.