Here are the most recent deaths in the national news, as reviewed and fact-checked by the Legacy.com news team in the third week of January 2025. Death News from January …
Cartoonists
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Feiffer won the Pulitzer Prize and is in the Comic Book Hall of Fame.
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He created the popular feature “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.”
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He drew the magazine’s unofficial mascot of a bull terrier.
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Mort Drucker was the iconic cartoonist for Mad magazine celebrated for drawing the Mad movie satires. Mad Magazine Drucker had been doing freelance work for various comics when he was hired …
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Generations of comic creators were influenced by Peanuts’ simple drawings and complex emotions.
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News Obituaries
Gahan Wilson (1930–2019), grim cartoonist featured in Playboy and The New Yorker
by Legacy StaffGahan Wilson, the grim cartoonist featured in Playboy, The New Yorker, and National Lampoon, died Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, in Scottsdale, Ariz., from complications of dementia. He was 89.
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Comic book artist also co-created Doctor Strange…
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Voice actor for “The Incredibles” and “Winnie the Pooh.”
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News Obituaries
Mort Walker (1923 – 2018), cartoonist created “Beetle Bailey” and “Hi and Lois”
by Legacy StaffMort Walker, the cartoonist who created “Beetle Bailey” and “Hi and Lois,” died Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018, of pneumonia at his home in Stamford, Conn. He was 94.