Michelle Urry

Michelle Urry (28 December 1939 – 15 October 2006, born Michelle Dorothy Kaplan) was the cartoon editor of

she was the "mother superior to cartoonists."

Urry was born in

, taking a low-level staff job with Playboy in the late 1960s. By 1971 Urry had become the magazine's cartoon editor, and she held that post until her death.

In 1974, while visiting B. Kliban in his San Francisco studio, Urry was struck by a group of Kliban's offhand cartoons of cats, bought several of them, and prodded Kliban to create a book-length collection of similar work.[1] Kliban's Cat became a best-selling book the next year, and spawned a wide range of popular merchandise.

She married sculptor Stephen Urry and the couple had one child, Caleb Urry. After Stephen's death in 1993, she married Alan Trustman, a screenwriter who is best known for The Thomas Crown Affair and Bullitt.

Aside from her primary job at Playboy, Urry served as a cartoon editor or consulting editor at many other magazines, including

References

External links

• Obituary, The New York Times, 18 October 2006
• Obituary, Sequential Comix News