NEW YORK - Bill Gallo, a cartoonist and a columnist for the New York Daily News, whose playful characters included that of the owner of the New York Yankees George Steinbrenner as General Von Steingrabber, died. He was 88.
Gallo, who worked for the paper for seven decades, died Tuesday following a pneumonia at White Plains hospital, the Daily News reported Tuesday.
"His death closed a chapter in the history of The News," said President Daily News Publisher Mortimer Zuckerman. "The death of our grand draughtsman, colleague and friend Bill Gallo to mark the end of an era."
AP Photo/Tina FinebergBill Gallo, seen in 2004, joined the New York Daily News as a copy boy and spent seven decades in the journal.Gallo in ink and, sometimes, in most of the leading figures of the last century, sports of words presented dating back to Jack Dempsey, Man o ' War, Jesse Owens and Dizzy Dean and gas House Gang of his St. Louis Cardinals. These were his heroes of secrets, he told The Associated Press in an interview in 2000, secret because he devoted his life to a drawing board in New York fun fiercely loyal sports fans.
Among his memorable characters, apart from General Von Steingrabber were basement Bertha and Yuchie, which represented dedicated Mets fans. The new stated last cartoon Gallo ran in the paper on 19 April. He showed the window Bertha shopping and in the hope of being invited to the royal wedding.
In a column last year, Gallo said that he chose the moniker General Von Steingrabber for Steinbrenner because Yankees owner grabbed a large part of the log space.
Once, he drew a Muhammad Ali overweight, pushing his stomach before him in a wheelbarrow. Ali has suspended the original in his training as an incentive camp to get in shape to fight Larry Holmes.
But he used his trade to address other subjects, including a tribute to 9/11 firefighters and police officers and the devastation of the terrorist attacks on the city.
His drawings can be found in an art gallery in Manhattan and the Temple of Baseball fame.
He told the AP that as a child, he dreams of becoming a journalist features like his father, Francisco, writer, author and editor at La Prensa, Journal prestigious Spanish-language of New York.
Also, he dreamed to become a comic as Milton Caniff, cartoonist who drew "Terry and the Pirates," his favorite comic. 5 Years, the artist aspiring never left the House without a pencil and some paper from scratch.
Gallo was born in Manhattan, on December 28, 1922 and grew up across the River in Queens.
He began as a boy of copy to the daily news just after he graduated from high school.
He took a break from the book to join the Marines during the second world war, landing in a foxhole on Iwo Jima, where died his Navy comrades 6,820.
After WWII, he returned to the Daily News and is part of the GI bill at Columbia University, according to the newspaper.
Satisfy for decades for a large city tabloid, Gallo at his drawing board appeared for the blue-collar spectator sports.
"I think that I made once something with the butts", he admitted hampered AP.
Gallo told the AP that he considered Michael Jordan of basketball: the gifted athlete, he never drew and Joe DiMaggio baseball, Sugar Ray Robinson boxing, Wayne Gretzky in hockey, and Jim Brown top football in their professions.
He is survived by his wife, Dolores; his son, Greg; a son, Bill; a brother, Henry. and four granddaughters.
"People tend to do a lot on age, but I'm not as an old guy," Gallo told the AP. "" my philosophy on age is: doesn't bother me, I'm busy. ""
Copyright 2011 by the Associated Press
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