PASSINGS : Mark Boxer; British Magazine Editor and Cartoonist

Mark Boxer, 57, a magazine editor and cartoonist whose barbed depictions of the fads and foibles of middle-class trend-setters entertained Britain for 20 years. Boxer joined the Ambassador, a fashion magazine, and began drawing for the fashion and society magazine Tatler. In 1957, he became art editor at another fashion magazine, Queen, and from 1962-65 edited the magazine section of the Sunday Times. From 1968 until this year, Boxer’s cartoons appeared in a variety of newspapers and magazines including The Times of London, The Guardian, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Listener and the New Statesman. Employing big names like painter David Hockney and photographer Lord Snowdon, he made the Sunday Times magazine into a major publishing success. Boxer worked for a variety of other magazines over the years and became editor-in-chief of Vogue, another top fashion magazine, last year. In London on Wednesday of a brain tumor.