Michael Witte (born 1944) is an American-born illustrator and cartoonist. Witte has been a regular contributor to ''TIME'', ''Harper’s'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Fortune'', ''The New York Times'' and ''The Wall Street Journal''. His art has appeared on the covers of ''The New Yorker'', ''Atlantic Monthly'', ''Newsweek'', ''Forbes'' and the ''Princeton Alumni Weekly'' as well as "The New Yorker Book of" cartoon series. He wrote and illustrated the best-selling ''Book of Terns'' (1978), ''Claus!'' (1982) and also co-wrote ''Otter Nonsense'' (1994) with best-selling children's book author Norton Juster. From 1974 to 1976, Witte collaborated with Mets/Phillies pitching great Tug McGraw on a nationally syndicated, sports-themed comic strip '' Scroogie''. The strips were collected in ''Scroogie'' (1976) and ''Hello There, Ball!'' (1977). A lifelong baseball fan, Witte later contributed on-the-air cartoon commentary during the 2003 Yankees-Marlins World Series. Since 2005, he has worked as a pitching and hitting mechanics consultant to the St. Louis Cardinals.

Awards

He is a recipient of the Page One Award from

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and consecutive National Headliner awards as America's best illustrator (1993 & 1994). He has received numerous Art Direction Awards from

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Personal

Michael Witte was born in rural St. Louis and spent his childhood working in his parents' country store. While a scholarship student at Princeton University, he served as art editor to the campus humor periodical, '' Tiger Magazine''. He now resides in South Nyack, New York with his wife, Sally. Together they have three sons, Griff, Spencer and Drew.

References

External links

Official website of Michael Witte
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