Zyglis generally doesn’t deploy the Grim Reaper in his cartoons — “it can often be overused,” he says — but in this case, he came up with a deft visual twist.

The Grim Reaper—that black-coated, scythe-carrying personification of death—has appeared in over a hundred and four cartoons in The New Yorker since 1937. But where was he prior to that?

If you want to thwart the Reaper, you better be prepared. And when Death (or rather Death's agent-in-training) comes for the last denizen of a gold-rush ...

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