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Jewish Exponent
Cartoonist Stuart
Goldman Dies at 74
SASHA ROGELBERG | STAFF WRITER
S tuart “Stu” Goldman, the former editorial car-
toonist and art director/graphics editor for the
Jewish Exponent, died on March 3 at his home
in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He was 74.

Goldman worked for the Exponent from 1981 until
his retirement in 2009, drawing comics that reflected
the tone of the Jewish news of the day.

An April 29, 2013 Exponent article outlines a few
of his comics that won first place for best editorial
cartoon by the Philadelphia Society of Professional
Journalists, which included “‘Sharon’s Shoes’” about
the plight of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on
succeeding Ariel Sharon and ‘Did You See This?’ about
Islamist attempts to impose censorship on the West.”
“They were always spot-on and very perceptive,”
Luci Scott, a former Jewish Exponent staff member
and colleague of Goldman’s from 1983 to 1993, said
of Goldman’s comics.

Goldman also won multiple Noah Bee Awards
in the newspaper sub-categories of “Editorial
Cartooning” or “Illustrating in All.” Between his work
at the Exponent and the Philadelphia publication The
Welcomat, where he published his “Eavesdrawings”
Stuart Goldman was described by his wife Naomi
Goldman as a “punster.”
Courtesy of Naomi Goldman
“Jewish Voter Roll,” a 1988 political cartoon by Goldman
Courtesy of the Temple University Special Collections Research Center
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cartoons, he was syndicated in more than 75 publica-
tions, according to his wife Naomi Goldman.

Sometimes not politically correct but almost always
funny, Goldman wasn’t afraid to speak his mind, his
wife remembers.

“If you met Stu, you might have been put off by
his sense of humor or what he might have said,” she
said. “He might have said something that people were
thinking but didn’t say out loud.”
Born in Kensington, Goldman attended Haverford
High School and Kutztown College, receiving a bach-
elor’s in art education in 1971.

He took up an interest in drawing as a young
child and was deemed “difficult” to parent, Naomi
Goldman said.

“He always said, when he went to his room when he
was being punished, he just started to draw,” Naomi
Goldman said. “It just flowed from his head to his
hand.” Goldman taught graphic design at the Hussian
School of Art and the Art Institute of Philadelphia,
where former student Annmarie Hafer recalled
Goldman going “above and beyond” to assist his
students. According to Hafter, Goldman believed that he
could teach anyone how to draw but couldn’t instruct