EARLY CARTOONS
Kay Kato began her career in America drawing cartoons for the major magazines of the time. She worked with gag writers occasionally and sometimes writing the gags herself. These are examples of some of her early cartoons, during the ’40’s and ’50’s.
CARTOONS of the ’50’s-’60’s
During the ’50’s and ’60’s Kay worked regularly for the Saturday Evening Post, drawing for these two regular features. These are examples from the ’50’s and ’60’s:
One of her most memorable projects was painting the cover for The Herald Tribune Magazine, Today’s Living in 1957. She drew almost 100 people, many taken from sketches she drew at my school fair at Linden Avenue School, in Glen Ridge, NJ.
In 1965, she was commissioned to illustrate a story in the New York Times Magazine.
