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December 4, 2002
Daily News Frank Evers Passes
Frank Evers, an award-winning Daily News editorial cartoonist famed for his drawings of City Hall politics, died October 27, after an accidental fall at his Brick, NJ, home. He was 82. During a two-decade career with The News, he won numerous awards. In 1980, the National Cartoonists Society presented Evers with its first prize in excellence for the "wit and vitality" he brought to The News’ editorial page.
One of his best-known cartoons showed then-Mayor Ed Koch pointing toward a skeleton during a period of civic austerity and announcing, "Now I’ll discuss my budget."
Evers was a talented artist who won a baseball scholarship to Temple University but left after one year to pursue his love of cartooning.
A Coast Guard veteran and life-long Jerseyan, he free-lanced as a cartoonist and worked for the Jersey Journal and Hudson Dispatch before joining The News.
Evers retired from The News in 1985. The same year, he was elected president of the 500-member cartoonist society.
Evers leaves his wife of 58 years, Lorraine; two daughters, Heather and Debra Khost, and two grandchildren.