Bruce Eric Kaplan
Bruce Eric Kaplan
Bruce Eric Kaplan, known as BEK, is an American cartoonist whose single-panel cartoons frequently appear in The New Yorker. His cartoons are known for their signature simple style and often dark humor. Kaplan is also a screenwriter and has worked on Seinfeld and on Six Feet Under. Kaplan wove his New Yorker cartooning into Seinfeld with the episode "The Cartoon." He graduated from Wesleyan University and studied there with Professor Jeanine Basinger...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth9 September 1964
CountryUnited States of America
My father would often start to say something, then say 'Forget it.'
It's self-soothing for me to draw. So if I'm upset, drawing makes me less upset.
In television writing, you want to hear what the characters say as opposed to giving them something to say. It's the same with the cartoons.
In New York, all the crews read 'The New Yorker.' In Los Angeles, they don't know from 'The New Yorker.'
I've sat through boring speeches; didn't get up and leave.
I've had to whine for everything I've ever really wanted.
I'm continually working on myself. Nothing ever actually works.
I was trying to be a writer, and I was kind of getting sidetracked, so I started doing cartoons as a form of expression.
I used cartoons as diaries. I still do. They're my way of figuring out the world, what's happening to me or what I'm thinking about.
I started doing a Twitter feed when my father was dying. I was very distracted, preoccupied. It was upsetting.
I loved Charles Addams more than anything. Still love him.
I love graduation speeches. I have always loved them; I will always love them.
I had always wanted to do a collection of cartoons, but you have to wait until someone is actually interested.
I go through my day remembering things like telephone cords.