Bo Brown
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Robert F. "Bo" Brown was an American
cartoonist. His work appeared in such places as The Saturday Evening Post
, The New Yorker
and some six hundred other publications. He also produced the syndicated comic strip Such Is Life in 1936. Bo received the National Cartoonist Society Gag Cartoon Award for 198l, as well as numerous other awards.
He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania
, class of 1928, and a member of the Mask & Wig Club and the Friars Senior Honors Society. Bo Brown was a law student at Penn when he sold two cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post, earning more money than fledgling lawyers could expect in 1930. So he took a leave of absence from Penn Law and proceeded, with the aid of his wife, Marge, to sell more than 30,000 cartoons to national, regional and local publications over the next 65 years. The dapper, witty and droll cartoonist met his last deadline just two weeks before his death at the age of 90 in August 1996.
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cartoonist. His work appeared in such places as The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post
The Saturday Evening Post is a bimonthly American magazine. It was published weekly under this title from 1897 until 1969, and quarterly and then bimonthly from 1971.-History:...
, The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
and some six hundred other publications. He also produced the syndicated comic strip Such Is Life in 1936. Bo received the National Cartoonist Society Gag Cartoon Award for 198l, as well as numerous other awards.
He was a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
, class of 1928, and a member of the Mask & Wig Club and the Friars Senior Honors Society. Bo Brown was a law student at Penn when he sold two cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post, earning more money than fledgling lawyers could expect in 1930. So he took a leave of absence from Penn Law and proceeded, with the aid of his wife, Marge, to sell more than 30,000 cartoons to national, regional and local publications over the next 65 years. The dapper, witty and droll cartoonist met his last deadline just two weeks before his death at the age of 90 in August 1996.
