In Fantagraphics ceaseless effort to rediscover every world-class
cartoonist in the history of the medium, we turn your attention to
a neglected part of the art form sports cartooning and to its
greatest practitioner Willard Mullin. The years 1930-1970 were the
Golden Age of both American sports and American comic strips, when
giants strode their respective fields Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and
Hank Aaron in one, George (Krazy Kat) Herriman, Milton (Steve
Canyon) Caniff, Walt (Pogo) Kelly in the other and Mullin was
there, straddling both fields, recording every major player and
event in the mid-20th-century history of baseball. Mullin was to
baseball players what Bill Mauldin was to soldiers: advocate and
critic, investing them with personality, humanity, dignity, and
poignancy; Mauldin had Willie & Joe and Mullin had the Brooklyn
Bum, his affectionate 1939 character representing the bedraggled
figure of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Willard Mullin s Golden Age of
Baseball: Drawings 1934-1972 collects for the first time Mullin s
best drawings devoted to baseball depictions of players like Joe
DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Yogi Berra, and Sandy Koufax, legendary
managers like Casey Stengel and George Steinbrenner, and events
like Lou Gehrig s emotional retirement speech on July 4, 1939, for
which Mullin not only drew a portrait but composed a poem (which he
often incorporated into his cartoons). Mullin s fluid line and
delicate but vigorous brushwork are shown to beautiful effect, with
many drawings reproduced from original art. See why millions of
baseball fans from the 30s to the 70s looked forward to Mullin s
cartoons in their daily paper. Mullins was voted Sports Cartoonist
of the Century upon his retirement by his peers, and his legacy has
been summed up by New Yorker cartoonist Bob Staake, who wrote,
Mullin defined the modern sports cartoon by combining
representative portraiture, cartoonish doodlery, and editorial
commentary part news account, part personal observation, his
cartoons celebrated sport for its entertainment, cultural, and
artistic value. "
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