Contributed cartoons and covers to The New Yorker for fifty-seven years, from 1958 through 2015.
Lee contributed cartoons to all the magazines including Collier's, Saturday Evening Post, Look, Argosy, Playboy, Sports Illustrated, 1000 Jokes, and many more. After 1958 The New Yorker had the right of first refusal.
Has a daughter Martha.
The New Yorker's art editor from 1973-1993, and cartoon editor from 1993-1997.
He studied at Carnegie Tech (now part of Carnegie Mellon University) and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.