August 22, 2007

Shown here is an original 1960s drawing by award-winning cartoonist John H. Sorensen. Sorensen was hospitalized in Little Rock (Pulaksi County) while traveling to New Mexico, where he hoped to recover from tuberculosis. He and his wife made the capital city their home for approximately twenty years. While hospitalized, he began to develop his artistic skills as a cartoonist, eventually publishing his work in magazines such as the New Yorker, the Saturday Evening Post, and Playboy. Sorensen also built a successful advertising agency that worked on several prominent political campaigns. He died in 1969.