Cartoonist Photos Part 6

Above: Walt Kelly and Edward R. Murrow in a 1953 publicity shot for "Person to Person."

Here we go with another installment of "what those creative guys really looked like," preserved in press photos of the time. Where I can, I am including a description from the photo as well. These are in random order.

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February 14, 1952: IT BEATS WORKING - Cartoonists, who are really artists with their brains knocked loose, have the softest jobs in the world -- all pay and no work. Here three of the unusual breed look over "Rick Smith" comic strips from the imagination factory owned by Hal Reyburn (left) and Kevin O'Tool (right). The Denver creators have shipped their sports comic strip here to a New York syndicate, hoping to find a market for their brainchild. Bob Bowie (center) Denver Post sports cartoonist, gets in on the act to see how the other half lives.





February 20, 1965: Fred Neher, Dik Browne, Mort Walker and Bob Bowie:

February 20, 1965: Giving cartoonist Mort Walker creator of "Beetle Bailey" (center), a few pointers are Fred Neher (left), creator of "Life's Like That" and Bob Bowie (right), Denver Post sports cartoonist. Walker's strip and Neher's panels are carried in The Post. Walker was scheduled to speak at Colorado Press Association Sunday morning.

Mordillo sometime in the 1970s:

Cartoonist "Bub" Smiley, of the Colorado Sprints Evening Telegraph, in a great self-portrait postcard, 1910s:

Larry Wright, 1981:

Don Addis, 1982:

Ralph Dunagin, 1970. Look at that desk! Now THAT'S a drawing board:

More Cartoonist Photos:
Part one
Part two
Part three
Part four 
Part five