Today is National Cartoonists Day!

B. Kliban

                                                William C. Morris circa 1908

                                                            H.T. Webster

Hal Coffman, 1900

John Knott, Dallas Morning News, 1918

H.T. Webster

                                                         Fay King

                                                          Zim, 1910

                                                    George Carlson, 1933

                                                                   Lichty, 1944

                                                         Jefferson Machamer, 1946

                                                                 Richard Taylor, 1947

                                                        Curtis Swan (from Alter-Ego #6, 1962)

                                                                        Vip Partch

                                                                       Arnold Roth

                                                                 Walt Handelsman, 2006

                                                                         Jeff Stahler, 2006

          Ed Hall (Cartoon of the beating of Syrian cartoonist, Ali Ferzat)

                                                                       Matt Bors, 2015

                                                                     Clay Bennet, 2015

                                                                                      Zim

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Larry's Cartoon Vault: Baseball Loving Cartoonists

My grandson has just started his pre-season little league practice--which signals me that big league baseball is on the horizon.

So as a tip of the cap to the upcoming baseball season, here are some legendary baseball-loving cartoonists of days gone by.

In the above photos:  ‘Tad’ Dorgan who clearly takes his game seriously.  Rube Goldberg –misspelled here as ‘Reub’- doen’t seem quite as formidable.  Larry Semon, a talented cartoonist, who became better known in vaudeville and silent film comedies (many made with Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel).

The great cartoonist Cliff Sterrett and fellow players Coffman and Carter just don’t seem to have Tad’s commitment. Overall, this doesn’t look like a team that would strike fear in the hearts of their opponents.

By some grand tradition most cartoonists who rise to a considerable level of success wind up playing golf—maybe that’s for the best.

Photos from Cartoons Magazine 1916