The Kerri Edelman Show Presents Award-Winning Author & Illustrator Bob Eckstein

I’m an illustrator, cartoonist, writer, and snowman expert. I’ve done cartoons for places like the New York Times, MAD magazine and The New Yorker. I 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. My work has been exhibited in: The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco, Smithsonian Institute, The Cartoon Museum of London and in 2018, The Sordoni Art Gallery at Wilkes University. I’ve been nominated Gag Cartoonist of the Year (twice) by the National Cartoonists Society. I have spoke in over a 200 TV and radio shows like Good Morning America and places like NYPL, Miami Book Fair, The Norman Rockwell Museum, and The Grolier Club. I have written columns, Op-Eds and features for: New Yorker, New York Times, New York Daily News, NY Newsday, Reader’s Digest, SPY, Playboy, Details, GQ, MAXIM, National Lampoon, Village Voice, and McSweeney’s. I am a Contributing Editor at Writer’s Digest. In 2018, The Illustrated History of the Snowmanby Globe Pequot was published along with a postcard set called World's Greatest Bookstores: 100 Postcards by Clarkson Potter of Penguin Random House. I have been speaking publicly against online shopping to raise awareness for independent bookstores. I taught at NYU, Pratt Institute and School of Visual Arts for a dozen years. In 2022 I published The Complete Book of Cat Names (That Your Cat Won't Answer to, Anyways). I am host of The Cartoon Pad and create the popular Substack newsletter, The Bob. His new book is Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums: Stories and Memorable Moments from People Who Love Museums.