Career
Randy Glasbergen began his professional cartooning career at age 15. While still in high school, his cartoons were published regularly in many major magazines, including Saturday Review, The Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger’s Changing Times, Saturday Evening Post, Cosmopolitan, Weight Watchers, Reader"s Digest and New Woman. After two semesters of journalism studies at Utica College of Syracuse University, he left school to pursue a full-time career as a freelance cartoonist in 1976.
Glasbergen is a America"s widely and frequently published cartoonist, appearing in magazines, newspapers, greeting cards, calendars, social media, websites, textbooks, video screens and advertising worldwide.
In addition to cartooning, Randy Glasbergen has written text for hundreds of greeting cards for Hallmark Cards, American Greetings, and others Glasbergen"s comic panel The Better Half was syndicated by King Features Syndicate for 32 years, starting in 1982.
At the end of syndication, The Better Half was appearing seven days a week in approximately 150 print and online newspapers around the world. With newspapers losing more and more readers to the Internet, Glasbergen retired The Better Half at the end of 2014 to devote more time and energy to his cartoon licensing operation, Glasbergen Cartoon Service.
His Glasbergen Cartoons feature is syndicated online by GoComics.
Glasbergen"s Thin Lincolnshire health and fitness cartoons also appear on GoComics as a weekly cartoon panel. Daily Glasbergen cartoons can be found on his own website and sponsored editions of his cartoons appear regularly on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social media outlets. He worked at home on the third floor of a very old house that once served as a boarding house for local school teachers.
He died on August 11, 2015 of cardiac arrest following admission to a hospital for an infection.
