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Bruce Alexander Russell (August 4, 1903 – December 18, 1963) was an American editorial
Lambiek Comiclopedia article.
1903 births 1963 deaths American editorial cartoonists American comics artists Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning winners University of California, Los Angeles alumni {{US-cartoonist-stub
Bruce Alexander Russell (August 4, 1903 – December 18, 1963) was an American editorial cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...
and comics artist.
After studying at the Southern branch of the University of California
The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...
, where he worked for the '' Cub Californian,'' he was hired for the ''Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...
'' as a sports cartoonist in 1927. He also drew a nationally syndicated cartoon, ''Rollo Rollingstone'' (for AP Newsfeatures
AP Newsfeatures, aka AP Features, was the cartoon and comic strip division of Associated Press, which syndicated strips from 1930 to the early 1960s.
History Origins
In February 1930, I. M. Kendrick, executive assistant to AP president Kent ...
) during the early 1930s. In 1934 he became the lead cartoonist for the ''Times,'' a position he held until his death of a heart attack.
Russell won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
The Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting and Commentary is one of the fourteen Pulitzer Prizes that is annually awarded for journalism in the United States. It is the successor to the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning awarded from 1922 t ...
in 1946. His winning cartoon, entitled "Time to Bridge that Gulch," shows an American eagle and a Russian bear facing each other over a gulch filled with "irresponsible statements" and "deepening suspicions."
His papers are held at University of California, Los Angeles.
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*Lambiek Comiclopedia article.
1903 births 1963 deaths American editorial cartoonists American comics artists Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning winners University of California, Los Angeles alumni {{US-cartoonist-stub