Ed Subitzky, full name Edward Jack Subitzky (born March 19, 1943), is an American writer and artist.
He is best known as a cartoonist, comics artist, and humorist.
In addition he has worked as a television comedy writer and performer, a writer and performer of radio comedy, and a writer of radio drama.
He has also created comedy and humor in other media.
He is a member of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, and the Writers Guild of America.
Subitzky appeared in the 2015 documentary film National Lampoon: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead, and was featured on one of the posters for the film.
In the early 1970s, Subitzky became a contributing editor at National Lampoon magazine, where he worked with many well-regarded humor and comedy creators including Henry Beard, Doug Kenney, Michael O'Donoghue, P.
J.
O'Rourke, and Michael Gross.
Subitzky also wrote and voice acted with National Lampoon comedy performers John Belushi and Chevy Chase in many episodes of the National Lampoon Radio Hour, and on Subitzky's comedy record album Official National Lampoon Stereo Test and Demonstration Record.
Subitzky went on to various other kinds of humor and comedy work, including appearing on television multiple times with David Letterman, and more work for radio.
He has also written broadcast horror stories.
During the 1990s, several comic strips of his appeared as "Op/Art" in the op-ed pages of The New York Times.
Starting in 2003, Subitzky contributed 17 pieces (including essays, stories, cartoons, and comic strips) on the subject of consciousness to a serious science journal, the Journal of Consciousness Studies.
And since 2015, he has contributed numerous pieces to The American Bystander humor magazine.
For many years, Subitzky had a day job as an advertising copywriter.