Bruce Stark cartoons

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Anyone remember these cartoons that appeared in the Sunday comics sections of the Daily News in 1973?

I was just reminded of them in an e-mail I received yesterday.

Each week was one Met and one Yankee. The only image I was able to find of a Met was the Seaver picture:

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I also found two Yankee images:

[Frayed Knot]

I remember them.
I even (slightly) knew Bruce Stark

I've never been much of a collector but those are the kind of thing I wish I hung onto - although the quality of stuff on news print paper doesn't tend to age real well.

[Zvon]

I remember these like yesterday--
Can anyone find the Willie Mays/ basket catch one?
I had that on my wall for weeks after I got it.

Stark was a master of the charicature.

[Guest KC]

Sure I remember them, I had a few of them on the Mets section of my
bedroom wall too. I don't remember that Seavpic at all though.

[soupcan]

Hadn't thought about them until just now but I definitely remember them.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I recall the Jim Fregosi one!

The cartoon emphasized he was a "hot dog," and may have included hot dogs in the drawing.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I think it was "Hot Corner" and not "hot dog." I remember him standing at third base, and the base was on fire or something.

My memories of the other Mets pictures: Jerry Grote chasing a foul pop, John Milner swinging a hammer, Bud Harrelson fielding with a vacuum cleaner, Rusty Staub in right field with a chef's hat and an apron, and Willie Mays catching a fly ball in a basket.

I can't picture the Felix Millan or Cleon Jones pictures. I think Yogi Berra had a comic book tucked in his back pocket.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Yeah maybe. Tug McGraw in a fireman's helmet?

[Guest Iubitul]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Yeah maybe. Tug McGraw in a fireman's helmet?

Yes - in fact, I remember that being shown in the 1974 (I think) yearbook. It was a picture of Tug in his locker, and the cartoon was hanging on the wall behind him, IIRC...

[Guest Edgy DC]

I have a part of my brain coming to life here, but I think we're conflating this guy's work with the 1982 yearbook cover, unless he did the 1982 yearbook cover.



And, unless he liked making Tom Seaver look like Sam Donaldson on a particularly vampiric day, it's not the same guy.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Iubitul wrote: ="Johnny Dickshot"]Yeah maybe. Tug McGraw in a fireman's helmet? Yes - in fact, I remember that being shown in the 1974 (I think) yearbook. It was a picture of Tug in his locker, and the cartoon was hanging on the wall behind him, IIRC...

Yup, that's where I'd seen it.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

No, not the same guy. Bruce Stark was much more talented than whoever did that 1983 cover.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

More examples of Bruce Stark's work

These are mostly TV Guide covers, plus one picture of Mayors Koch and LaGuardia.

I like his work. It reminds me of the style seen in the movie parodies in MAD Magazine. Sort of like Mort Drucker, I think.

I can't seem to find any more images from that Mets-Yankees set, though. There was one picture of Graig Nettles that showed up in Google's image search, but the site that hosted the picture wasn't available, so I couldn't see anything beyond the thumbnail that Google displayed.

[MFS62]

The guy in the fireman's helmet is pictured as throwing righty. Tug was a lefty. Are we sure its supposed to be Tug?

Later

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

MFS62 wrote: The guy in the fireman's helmet is pictured as throwing righty. Tug was a lefty. Are we sure its supposed to be Tug? Later

The guy pictured is Neil Allen.