Bob Eckstein: Cartoonist, Illustrator, Writer
BOB ECKSTEIN is an illustrator, cartoonist, writer and snowman expert. His cartoons have appeared in major publications, including the New York Times, MAD magazine and The New Yorker. Eckstein wrote The History of the Snowman (Simon & Schuster, 2007) and Footnotes from the World’s Greatest Bookstores (Penguin Random House, 2016) which became a NY Times bestseller. His work has been exhibited in The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco, the Smithsonian Institute, The Cartoon Museum of London, and in The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University. He has been nominated for Gag Cartoonist of the Year (twice) by the National Cartoonists Society.
Eckstein has written columns, Op-Eds and features for: The New Yorker, the New York Times, New York Daily News, NY Newsday, Reader’s Digest, SPY, Playboy, Details, GQ, MAXIM, National Lampoon, Village Voice, and McSweeney’s. He is a Contributing Editor at Writer’s Digest.
Eckstein has been speaking publicly against online shopping to raise awareness for independent bookstores. He taught at New York University, at Pratt Institute, and at the School of Visual Arts for a dozen years. His new book is Everyone’s A Critic: The Ultimate Cartoon Book by the World’s Greatest Cartoonists.
The videos below are organized by topic and run between 30 seconds and 5 minutes. Click on any video. You must be connected to the Internet to view the videos.
SERENDIPITY: 1:05 min.
SEIZES OPPORTUNITIES: 1:42 min.
CREATIVE FLEXIBILITY: 0:43 sec.
VALUES FIRST-RATE EDUCATION: 0:33 sec.
INSIGHT AND INSPIRATION: 1:31 min.
RESILIENCE: 1:27 min.
CREATIVE FLEXIBILITY: 2:03 min.
OPEN TO CHANGE, FLEXIBILITY: 1:08 min.
DEVELOP A VOICE: 0:47 sec.
COLLABORATION: 0:41 sec.
EMPATHY: 1:11 min.
