Fradon worked as a cartoonist for The New Yorker from 1948 to 2003, where he drew approximately 1400 cartoons. Some of his earliest work was for The New Masses, a Marxist magazine, before publishing his first cartoon under The New Yorker in 1948.
Fradon was present near The New Yorker’s beginning, working under founding editor Harold Ross, and his career stretched all the way to the modern day under current editor David Remnick. His unique style of left-leaning satire defined The New Yorker’s postwar tone. He worked alongside cartoonists like Charles Addams, Saul Steinberg, Peter Arno, James Stevenson, Robert Weber, Charles Saxon, Anatol Kovarsky, Frank Modell, Roz Chast and Bob Mankoff. Mankoff said “I don’t think there was ever a cartoonist who was as consistently good as he was … There was a great clarity to his style.”
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