Arnold Roth

Arnold Roth (born February 25, 1929) is an American cartoonist and illustrator for advertisements, album covers, books, magazines, and newspapers.

Roth has done covers for The New Yorker and his artwork has appeared in TV Guide, Sports Illustrated and Esquire.

His cartoons and illustrations were contributions to the satirical magazines edited by his friend Harvey Kurtzman: Trump (1957), Humbug (1957–58) and Help!

Playboy published ten multi-page installments of his An Illustrated History of Sex series in the late 1970s.

On June 25, 2009, Roth was inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame which honors artists for their “distinguished achievement in the art of illustration.” Past Society presidents select inductees based on their body of work and the impact on the field of illustration.