Whether you’re seven or seventy, the chances are you’ve probably come in contact with one of his many books (150 plus), or cartoons that have appeared in over 200 magazines in the course of his lifetime, including Laugh it Off which was syndicated for 20 years. His comic strip Tuffy, about a little girl who did funny things, was declared essential for national morale during WWII by William Randolph Hearst. Syd has worked in diverse genres. He had the distinct honor of working with Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen as a contributor of short fiction writing. He was awarded national advertising commissions for large companies such as Chevrolet, Maxwell House Coffee and others. He had his own TV show (Tales of Hoff on CBS), traveled the world as entertainment on cruise ships and entertained children and teachers in schools and libraries across the country.

Chauncey Addison Day (Chon was a college nickname) was born in Chatham, New Jersey, USA, and attended Lehigh University in 1926, where he drew for the college's humour magazine, 'The Burr'. However, he left after just one year and later enrolled in 1929 at New York City's Art Students League. There he studied under Boardman Robinson, George Bridgman and John Sloan. It was in that same year, 1929, that his cartoons were first published in national magazines. His gentle monk Sebastian was born in the unclerical atmosphere of Toots Shor's restaurant in New York when Day was lunching with Gurney Williams, humour Editor of 'Look' magazine. Thereafter he appeared regularly in the pages of 'Look'. He also produced cartoons for such as 'The New Yorker'. the 'Saturday Evening Post' and other internationally famous magazines. When he died in 2000 he had been the 'Saturday Evening Post's' longest running cartoonist for more than half a century. He received the National Cartoonists Society Gag Cartoon Award for 1956, 1962 and 1970, plus their Special Features Award for Brother Sebastian in 1969. Instead of working in New York, Day chose to live in Westerly, Rhode Island where he conducted most of his business by mail. He stated that he moved there 'to get away from commuters'. During the summer months he would devote his time to sailing, fishing and clam digging and he worked mostly at night, after the house had stopped pulsating from the activities of his three sons. He once said, 'The natives in town think I'm a bum, or on a night shift somewhere, or a bookie.' He explained to them that he was retired and added, off the record, 'That's as good as anything, I guess, after 25 years of cartooning.' He died in 2000.

Rosalind "Roz" Chast is an American cartoonist and a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker. She grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, the only child of an assistant principal and a high school teacher. Her earliest cartoons were published in Christopher Street and The Village Voice. In 1978 The New Yorker accepted one of her cartoons and has since published more than 800. She also publishes cartoons in Scientific American and the Harvard Business Review. Chast is a graduate of Midwood High School in Brooklyn. She first attended Kirkland College (which later merged with Hamilton College) and then studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and received a BFA in painting in 1977. She also holds honorary doctorates from Pratt Institute and Dartmouth College, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is represented by the Danese/Corey gallery in Chelsea, New York City.