Ed Subitzky, full name Edward Jack Subitzky (born March 19, 1943), is an American writer and artist, who is best known as a cartoonist, comics artist, and humorist/humor writer. He has also worked as a television comedy writer and performer, a writer and performer of radio comedy, and a writer of radio drama, as well as creating comedy and humor in various other media. He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the Writers Guild of America.
In the early 1970s, Subitzky became a contributing editor at National Lampoon magazine, where he worked with many well-regarded humor and comedy creators such as Henry Beard, Doug Kenney, Michael O'Donoghue, P. J. O'Rourke, Michael Gross, and comedy performers including John Belushi and Chevy Chase. As well as his work for the magazine, Subitzky contributed to many other Lampoon projects.
Subsequently Subitzky went on to various other kinds of humor and comedy work, including working on television with David Letterman, and more work for radio. He has also written broadcast horror stories.
During the 1990s, several comic strips of his appeared as "Op/Art" in the op-ed pages of the New York Times.
Since 2003 he has contributed thirteen pieces (some written and some drawn) on the subject of consciousness to a serious science journal, the JCS.
Subitzky had a longtime day job as an advertising copywriter.
Read more about Ed Subitzky: Early Life, National Lampoon Magazine, Other Books, Comedy Albums, The New York Times Op/Ed Page, and Magazine Work, Film-related Work, Character Modeling, A 2006 Parody, The 2010 Book Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, The 2011 Book The Someday Funnies