Aaron Bacal

• Born 1939 · Died 2015-06

Known professionally as Aaron Bacall, his cartoons appeared in The New Yorker, Barron's, The Wall Street Journal, and many other magazines and were also published in Germany, Portugal, Italy and Japan. He was also a humor columnist and cartoonist at the Staten Island Advance newspaper for 30 years. At the City College of New York, he received a Bachelor of Science Degree in chemistry and then attended NYU, earning two Master's Degrees, one in advanced organic chemistry and another in business administration. He earned these degrees at night school while working as a pharmaceutical research chemist by day. After working as an antibiotic research chemist, he became a chemistry teacher at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn in 1956. During the 27 years he was there, he was also a curriculum coordinator and produced a series of "The Lighter Side of..." books on various school staffing and teaching subjects, containing his cartoons.