Cyrus Cotton Hungerford (June 27, 1888 – May 25, 1983) was an American

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who produced daily cartoons for the ''

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'' from 1927 until his retirement in 1977. His many awards included a Golden Quill Award (1966), a Pennsylvania Award of Excellence (1970) and the

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from

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. Hungerford was born in

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in 1889 but lived as a child in Parkersburg, West Virginia. As a boy, he practised drawing by copying cartoons from the newspapers, and his first published cartoon was in the ''Parkersburg Sentinel'' in 1903. He later worked for the '' Wheeling Register'' before becoming editorial cartoonist for the ''

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'' for fifteen years from 1912. He joined the ''

'' in 1927. Of all the cartoon versions of '

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', a character used to personify the city of

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since the 1890s, Cy Hungerford's rendition has been one of the most familiar to Pittsburghers. Although he worked principally as an editorial cartoonist, Cy Hungerford also produced ''Snoodles'', a syndicated daily comic strip, for several years beginning in 1913. During

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he produced defense posters. Cy Hungerford died on May 25, 1983 in the Pittsburgh suburb of

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at the age of 93. His first wife, Alice Meade, whom he married in 1942, died in 1964, and he died four days after the death of his second wife Dorothy Goetz.

References

External links

Cyrus C. (Cy) Hungerford obituary
New York Times, May 27, 1983

at The Pennsylvania Department (originally at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh)

at Lambiek.net

(1950), republished at Stripper's Guide, 2007

Gallery of Hungerford's daily comic strip at John Adcock's ''Yesterday's Papers'', continues a

an

at The Pennsylvania Department (originally at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hungerford, Cyrus Cotton Cy American editorial cartoonists Pittsburgh Post-Gazette people Artists from Pittsburgh 1889 births 1983 deaths