Don Orehek

Don Orehek (born August 9, 1928) is an American freelance cartoonist who has contributed gag cartoons to a wide variety of newspapers, magazines and books. On more obscure publications, he has used several pseudonyms, including Sam de Sade, Di Benvenuto and Kobasa. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Orehek attended the School of Industrial Art, spent four years in the Navy and then studied cartooning and illustration at the School of Visual Arts. His work has appeared in Adam, Army Laughs, The Christian Science Monitor, Cosmopolitan, Cracked, Good Housekeeping, Ladies' Home Journal, Look, Modern Maturity, Playboy, The Saturday Evening Post and other publications, including one-shot magazines and specialized cartoon magazines, such as Prize Cartoons.