Lou Grant (cartoonist)

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Lou Grant
Sparky Award
, 2001
Spouse(s)Doris Weisel
Florenzi Pooley (m. 1973–his death)
ChildrenBill Grant and Josie Grant Grandchildren: Abra Brayman and Ben Grant

Lou Grant (December 3, 1919 – September 7, 2001) was an American editorial cartoonist. He mainly worked for the

Time Magazine
(1960-1986). His life's work covered comedy and political satire, sports, radio, and political cartoons.

Biography

Lou Grant started his career in the newspaper business as a copy boy for the Los Angeles Examiner in 1937.

Fremont High School
in Los Angeles, and worked as a cartoonist during the war years for the Camp Roberts newspaper. His first art lesson came from winning a contest on a matchbook cover called "Learn How to Draw." He then received free lessons, but he was a natural talent.

During World War II, Grant was stationed at Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, California, where he worked for the camp newspaper, after having been diverted from the infantry unit which was sent to Anzio Beach in Italy and ended up experiencing heavy casualties. At that time he met his future writing partner in comedy, Bob Schiller, who would create All in the Family and be a comedy writer in television for I Love Lucy. They worked together as comedy writers for the radio show Duffy's Tavern.

After the war, Grant went to Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, to work with cartoonist Jimmy Hatlo, the comic strip artist for King Features Syndicate, inking the panels for They'll Do It Every Time.

After his marriage to Doris Weisel, the couple moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Grant worked as a sports cartoonist in 1944 for the Milwaukee Sentinel. His sports cartoons were known as Swine Skin Gulch (referencing the site for the baseball stadium Borchert Field in Milwaukee).[2]

In 1949, William Randolph Hearst recruited Grant to be the sports cartoonist for the News Cal-Bulletin in San Francisco and his cartoons appeared daily in the sports section, 1949-1953.

Grant's political career took him to the Oakland Tribune. His editorial cartoons appeared daily from 1954-1987, and he remained as then paper's editorial cartoonist until his retirement in 1986. He never took a day off due to the nature of being current with the politics of the day. The Los Angeles Times Syndicate distributed Lou Grant cartoons to newspapers and news magazines nationally on a daily basis.

Grant was memorialized by Ed Asner in the television show Lou Grant, for MTM productions.[citation needed]

Personal life and death

His family includes son Bill Grant,[3] wrestling hall of fame coach, and daughter Josie Grant, artist and muralist (and archivist of the Lou Grant Archives). He lived with his family in Palo Alto and San Francisco. He later resided in Oakland, California.

He remarried Florenzi Pooley in 1973. She is the executor of his estate.[citation needed]

Lou Grant's obituary appeared in many newspapers nationally and locally in the San Francisco Bay Area.[4][5][6]

Awards

Grant received many awards, including from the

Sparky Award 2001 from the Charles M. Schulz Foundation [7] and The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco.[8]

Grant was honored with a one-man show at the Oakland Museum of California called The Pointed Pen in 1983.

Archives

His work is archived in the collection The Best of Lou Grant of 1954-1955 cartoons[9] and in the book Artists in California 1786 - 1940 by Edan Hughes.

The cartoons of Lou Grant are archived at

Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, Independence Mo, In the Collection, Cartoons of President Harry Truman,[11] The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston, MA,[12] The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum,[13] The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum, Atlanta, Georgia,[14] The Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco [15] and the Library of Congress, Washington D.C.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Los Angeles Examiner Collection, 1920-1961". Archived from the original on 2013-07-23. Retrieved 2013-08-17.
  2. ^ "Borchert Field".
  3. ^ "Monterey Clinic of Champions".
  4. The Los Angeles Times
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  5. Sun-Sentinel
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  6. ^ May, Meredith (September 10, 2001). "Lou Grant, renowned political cartoonist". San Francisco Chronicle.
  7. ^ "Charles M. Schulz Museum - Official Website".
  8. ^ Museum, Author: Cartoon Art. "Cartoon Art Museum » Sparky Awards". Archived from the original on August 31, 2014. {{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)
  9. ^ Burroughs, Jack. The Best of Lou Grant: A Cartoon History of the Past Year (March 1954-March 1955). Oakland Tribune.
  10. ^ Bancroft Library,University of California,Berkeley, "The Lou Grant Collection of Political Cartoons"
  11. ^ [1], In the Collection, Cartoons of President Harry Truman
  12. ^ "John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum".
  13. ^ [2] Archived 2015-08-01 at the Wayback Machine In the Collection, Cartoons of President Lyndon B. Johnson
  14. ^ [Jimmy Carter Presidential Library] [www.jimmycarterlibrary.org]In the Collection, Cartoons of President Jimmy Carter
  15. ^ Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco, In the Collection. Cartoons donated by Florenzi Grant from the Lou Grant Archives
  16. ^ Lou Grant Collection Archived 2006-03-26 at the Wayback Machine
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