Harry Bliss

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Harry Bliss

Harry Bliss is a United States cartoonist and illustrator.

Bliss grew up in New York State among an artistic family. He studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and studied illustration at the University of the Arts, earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts and at Syracuse University earning an M.A.

Bliss has illustrated many books and produces cartoons and covers for The New Yorker. His first book for children, A Fine, Fine School by Sharon Creech was a New York Times bestseller, as was Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin.

As of the mid-2000s, Bliss lives in South Burlington, Vermont.

The May 12, 2008 edition of The New Yorker magazine published in its weekly caption-writing contest a cartoon by that closely resembled Jack Kirby's cover of Tales to Astonish #34 (Aug. 1962). Intended by Bliss as a homage and tribute to Kirby, critics complained that the magazine did not mention Kirby's name. After being notified by readers and the media, the magazine belatedly called the piece an homage and said it would update its website to read, "Drawing by Harry Bliss, after Jack Kirby".^[1]