Bob Eckstein is an award-winning illustrator, writer, New Yorker cartoonist, snowman expert, and author of The New York Times bestselling Footnotes from the World's Greatest Bookstores. His cartoons, OpEds, and short stories appear worldwide regularly including The New York Times, New York Daily News, MAD magazine, Readers Digest, The Spectator, Prospect, Wall Street Journal, Playboy, among many others. He has been interviewed in over 100 TV, radio and magazine spots including Good Morning America and People magazine. Contributing Editor of Writer's Digest and the world's only snowman expert--he wrote the holiday classic, The Illustrated History of the Snowman. He was nominated by the National Cartoon Society as Gag Cartoonist of the Year, twice, and selected in 2018 as the Erma Bombeck Humor Writer of the Month. He teaches Writing and Drawing at NYU. His work can be seen at BobEckstein.com and he can be followed on Instagram at @Bob_Eckstein or Twitter at @BobEckstein.