white and gold cardboard cup with an ancient Grecian design, steaming with coffee or tea. This pop-culture emblem of New York is slowly disappearing. And now the man who created it is gone.

Drawing and posting his 100th cartoon on Dec. 31, Hara could have taken a break, but on New Year's Day, he began the first of what he hopes to be another 100 coffee-cup cartoons in 2015.

Leslie Buck, the designer of New York's famous blue, white and gold cardboard take out coffee cup, has died. He was 87. Leslie Buck, who designed the blue-white-and-gold cardboard cup with an ...