Bob Eckstein

Bob Eckstein is an award-winning illustrator, writer, and cartoonist for the New Yorker , New York Times , Reader's Digest , Smithsonian Magazine , Atlas Obscura , and many others. His Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores was a New York Times bestseller and made many "Best Of" 2016 lists and continues to be an "Amazon Most Wished for Title" years later. A postcard set based on that book was published in 2018. He is also the author of The History of the Snowman , The Illustrated...See more

Bob Eckstein is an award-winning illustrator, writer, and cartoonist for the New Yorker , New York Times , Reader's Digest , Smithsonian Magazine , Atlas Obscura , and many others. His Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores was a New York Times bestseller and made many "Best Of" 2016 lists and continues to be an "Amazon Most Wished for Title" years later. A postcard set based on that book was published in 2018. He is also the author of The History of the Snowman , The Illustrated History of the Snowman , and The Complete Book of Cat Names (That Your Cat Won't Answer to Anyway) . He was editor for The Ultimate Cartoon Book of Book Cartoons series and is contributing editor for Writer's Digest . He lives in New York City. See less