Theodore W. Drake (September 2, 1907 – May 25, 2000) was an American cartoonist, graphic artist, and sports artist known for creating the college-sports mascot the

Notre Dame Leprechaun The Notre Dame Leprechaun is the mascot of the University of Notre Dame (Notre Dame) Fighting Irish athletics department. He appears at athletic events, most notably at football games. He was designed by sports artist Theodore W. Drake in 1964 f ...

. Drake is probably best remembered for the creation of the

, for which he was paid $50. The Leprechaun was first used on the 1964 football

pocket schedule A pocket schedule or fixtures card is a small card or foldable paper guide which typically fits in a wallet or pocket. A typical pocket schedule may contain a full season match schedule for the team, including dates, match times, and opponent. It ma ...

and later on the football program covers, and featured on the cover of ''

Time Time is the continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future. It is a component quantity of various measurements used to sequence events, to ...

'' magazine in November 1964. Ted Drake should also be remembered for creating the Chicago Bulls logo in 1966. In the early 1950s, Drake was the main graphic artist for the ''

Kukla, Fran and Ollie ''Kukla, Fran and Ollie'' is an early American television show using puppets. It was created for children, but soon watched by more adults than children. It did not have a script and was entirely ad-libbed. It was broadcast from Chicago between O ...

'' television puppet show, creating its opening titles along with album covers, newsletters, advertisements, and even Christmas cards.Ted Drake, Kuklapolitan Artist
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References

http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19641120,00.html

External links

Sources

*''The Spindrift Cartoons: 1943'' edited by

Matthew H. Gore Matthew H. Gore (born 1962) is a British historian, popular culturist, and educator residing in Memphis, Tennessee. He is best known for his book ''The History of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Kentucky to 1988'' (2000), but has published ...

(Ellendale: Tennessee, 2008). 1907 births 2000 deaths American comics artists American cartoonists Logo designers University of Notre Dame people Film and television title designers {{US-cartoonist-stub