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P.C. Vey, Cartoonist Who Would Have Made This Headline Funny, Has Died

NYT > Business > Media · Michael S. Rosenwald · last updated

His work for The New Yorker savaged the absurdities of everyday life. He has died at 70.

P.C. Vey, whose cheerfully pessimistic cartoons in The New Yorker depicted the inescapable absurdity of romantic relationships, corporate life, hoity-toity restaurants, cats, health care, technology, greed and death, died on Sept. 17 at his home in Amherst, Mass. He was 70.

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