Day was a long-time contributor to The New Yorker, with his work appearing from September 1931 to May 24, 1976, including eight covers.[1] According to Kirkus Reviews, he specialized in satirizing "[the] so-called athletic pursuits, [and also] the foibles of war and peace."[3] His All Out for the Sack Race (Random House, 1945) collected many of his New Yorker cartoons.
Day illustrated Fun Fare; a Treasury of Reader's Digest Wit and Humor. The original 1949 edition was published by Reader's Digest in collaboration with Bob Hope.[4] The original edition of Fun Fare comprised 300 pages of short comic stories illustrated in color by Day. The book was still one of the best-selling general titles three years later in 1952.[5]
^The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons Maurice Horn Volume 2 (1999), p. 225: "Robert Day studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles between 1919 and 1927, when he was also employed in the art ... Books: All Out for the Sack Race (1945); We Shook the Family Tree (1946); Fun Fare (1949)..."
^The Publishers Weekly - Volume 161 1952- Page 214 "With both Pocket Books and hardcover publishers' sales, these titles are among the leaders of the year: "Diet Does It," "Fun Fare," selected by the editors of Reader's Digest (Simon and Schuster) with a combined sale of 177,685 copies,"
