Sports cartooning is a vanishing art. Better action photography and bigger picture layouts are taking over the space in sports sections once saved for interpretive cartoons. Television's instant replays engrave images on a sports fan's mind that cannot be duplicated with the same drama the next day in brush strokes and ink. Today's sports editors can spare neither column inches nor salary for sports cartoonistsnot even for the likes of Willard Mullin.
The creator of such enduring and endearing baseball images as the Brooklyn Dodger Bum, the eye-patched Pittsburgh Pirate, the beer-bellied Milwaukee Brave and the slew-footed New York Giant has been...
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