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Willard Mullin

Willard Harlan Mullin (1902 - 1978) was active/lived in New York, California, Florida, Ohio.  Willard Mullin is known for Illustration-cartoons.

Willard Mullin (1902-1978)

Named "Sports Cartoonist of the Century" by the National Cartoonists Society -- he was the Rembrandt of the sports pages during the glory years of sports cartooning.

The "Sports Cartoonist of the Century" honor came in 1971, after both newspaper sports cartooning and Mullin had retired.  By then, the New York newspaper for which Mullin created cartoons six days a week for 33 years, had closed.

Willard Mullin and sport cartooning were born the same year, 1902-- Mullin on a farm near Franklin, Ohio, and sports cartooning beside a boxing ring in San Francisco.  Young Willard knew from an early age that he wanted to be a cartoonist.  When his seventh grade teacher sent him to the principal's office for drawing in his text books, the principal asked: "What's to become of you?" Young Mullin answered that he was going to become a sports cartoonist.

After high school, he took jobs that would give him the experience he   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3957 characters.]  Artist bio

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