A Genealogy of the Cartoon Grim Reaper

The New Yorker
The New Yorker
  • 7 years ago
The Grim Reaper—that black-coated, scythe-carrying personification of death—has appeared in over a hundred and four cartoons in The New Yorker since 1937. But where was he prior to that?

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