Bill Sanders Cartoons, 1963-1967.
Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Sanders, Bill.
- Abstract:
- 133 original editorial cartoons most of which were published in the Kansas City Star.
- Extent:
- 2 linear ft.
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Bill Sanders Cartoons,
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Bill Sanders Cartoons are arranged into 3 series reflecting the newspaper for which Sanders produced them. The collection consists of 133 original editorial cartoons published during the 1960s. The bulk of the cartoons appeared in the Kansas City Star while three cartoons in the collection are from his earlier work at the Greensboro Daily News and 2 cartoons lack indication of a specific publication. The majority of the cartoons are undated. The folders of dated cartoons typically include a clipping of the cartoon from the newspaper on the back of the original which is stamped with the date.
The cartoons were drawn in ink and crayon on illustration board with screening. The cartoons vary in size.
- Biographical / historical:
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Bill Sanders (1930- ) is an American editorial cartoonist.
Bill Sanders was born in 1930 in Springfield, Tennessee. While attending Western Kentucky University (then Western Kentucky State College), he set a NCAA football record as a quarterback. He also received a B.A. in English while minoring in art under the direction of a watercolor artist. Sanders was pursued by the Cleveland Browns but Sanders was drafted from the Army ROTC into the Army where he was a lieutenant in the Korean War and also in Japan. While in the military he contributed to the Pacific version of Stars and Stripes.
Following the war, Sanders sought a position at the Greensboro Daily News and became a sports writer-cartoonist for the paper in 1959. Sanders also started his own syndicate and while working for the Daily News, his cartoons were reprinted in several papers in North Carolina, Georgia and Japan. Having grown up and worked in the South, Sanders had been influenced by civil rights issues and his liberal treatment of civil rights issues prompted heated debates about his cartoons.
In 1963, Sanders moved to the Kansas City Star and in 1967 he became the editorial cartoonist at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel which he retired from in 1991. During this time, Sanders’ work was also syndicated by the King Features Syndicate and appeared in over 200 publications.
Sanders received several awards including Kansas City Civil Liberties Achievement Award, the International Salon of Cartoons Award, the National Headliners Award (1975) and the Wisconsin Civil Liberties Special Award. In 2002, Western Kentucky University formally exhibited his work at a show titled "Bill "Whitey" Sanders: Comic Opera". His cartoons have appeared in the collection: Getting Angry Six Times a Week: a Portfolio of Political Cartoons: 14 major cartoonists and he has published books of entirely his own cartoons: Run for the oval room: they can't corner us there (1974) and Adventures in Whopperland : a collection of political cartoons, written opinions and essays (2006) .
In retirement, Sanders continues to submit cartoons to his local paper, the Fort Myers New Press, and publishes them online along with some of his writings through his blog.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Bill Sanders , 1968 and 1970.
- Arrangement:
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The cartoons are arranged in rough chronological order with three items of Sanders' work for the Greensboro Daily News appearing first followed by his work from the Kansas City Star. Dated cartoons appear first, followed by undated cartoons arranged alphabetically by caption.
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Art -- Cartoonists
American wit and humor, Pictorial.
Caricatures and cartoons -- United States.
Cartoonists -- Missouri.
Cartoonists -- North Carolina.
Cartoonists -- United States.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Editorial cartoons -- Missouri.
Editorial cartoons -- North Carolina.
Editorial cartoons -- United States.
World politics -- 1945-1989 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Cartoonists.
Cartoons (humorous images)
Editorial cartoons. - Names:
- Sanders, Bill.
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976 -- Caricatures and cartoons. - Places:
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969 -- Caricatures and cartoons.
- Indexes:
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Index to cartoons
The following is a list of predominant people, places and subjects appearing in the editorial cartoons in this collection. The list is not exhaustive. Some subjects may require you to browse with alternative terms.
B= Box, F= Folder. For example: B1F1= Box 1 Folder 1.
Ackley, Gardner B1F5 Africa B2F3 aliens B1F7 aluminum industry B1F3B2F2 American Indians B2F5 Asia B1F5 automobile accidents B1F2 biogtry B2F1 Black Power B2F3-B2F4B2F6 Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich B1F3B1F6B2F5 Britain B1F7B2F4 Buddhists B2F1 Bundy, McGeorge B1F3 Burch, Dean B1F4 Castro, Fidel B1F3B2F3 Central Intelligence Agency B2F2 China B1F3B1F5-B1F6 civil liberties B1F2 civil rights B1F2B1F4B1F6-B2F1B2F3 communism B1F6B2F1-B2F2 Congo B1F3B2F7 Congress B1F1-B2F6 Connally, John B2F7 consumers B1F5 crime B1F7 Cuba B1F6 de Gaulle, Charles B1F2B2F5 democracy B1F2 Democratic Party B1F2 demonstrations B2F1 diplomacy B2F1 Dirksen, Everett B2F2-B2F3 diseases B2F4 Dixiecrats B1F5 Dominican Republic B2F3 draft B1F5-B1F6 economy B2F1-B2F2 Egypt B1F6-B1F7 elections B1F2B1F5B2F4B2F7 electricity needs B2F4 ethics B1F3B2F2 Europe B1F7 EXPO 67 B2F5 Fanfani, Amintore B2F4 farming B1F1-B1F2B1F7 fashion B2F2 Ford, Gerald R. B2F3 foreign aid bill B1F2B1F4B2F3 foreign policy B1F7B2F6 Fowler, Henry H. B1F7 France B2F3 free enterprise B1F7 Fulbright, J. William B2F2B2F6 Germany B2F3 Ghana B1F6 Goldberg, Arthur B1F3 Goldwater, Barry B1F2B1F4 Greece B1F5B2F6 Halleck, Charles B2F3 Harriman, W. Averell B1F3 Helms, Richard B2F2 Ho Chi Minh B1F5B2F1 Hoover, Hebert B2F2 HUAAC B2F4 Humphrey, Hubert B1F3 ignorance B2F4 immigration B2F5 India B1F5 Indonesia B1F5-B1F6 inflation B1F4-B1F6B2F2B2F4 Internal Revenue Service B1F4 Johnson, Lady Bird B1F6 Johnson, Lyndon Baines B1F2-B1F3B1F5-B2F4B2F6 juvenile legal rights B1F4 Kennedy, John F. B1F1-B1F2B1F4B1F7B2F3 Kennedy, Robert F. B1F3B1F7 Khrushchev, Nikita B1F2B1F7-B2F1B2F7 Ku Klux Klan B2F4 labor B2F4 labor laws B2F4 Latin America B2F3 Lindsay, John B2F3 Makarios III B1F5 Malaysia B1F6 McNamara, Robert B1F7B2F2-B2F3 Middle East B1F5B2F1B2F4 Nasser, Gamal Abdel B1F6B2F3 National Rifle Association B2F1B2F4 NATO B2F3 nature conservation B2F4 New York City B1F4 nuclear weapons B2F1 Pakistan B1F5 peace B1F5B1F7B2F2B2F4 Percy, Charles H. B1F7 pollution B1F6 poverty B2F4 Powell, Adam Clayton B1F3B2F1B2F4-B2F6 prejudice B2F4-B2F5 prices B1F5 Republican Party B1F2B1F4-B1F5B1F7B2F3 Rhodesia B2F2 Rockefeller, Nelson B1F2B1F7 Romney, George W. B1F7 Russia B1F7 segregation B1F4B2F2 Smith, Ian B2F3 Soviet Union B1F2B2F2 space exploration B1F1B1F7B2F4 sports B1F6 Stalin, Svetlana B1F6 steel industry B1F4B1F7-B2F2 strikes B1F7-B2F2 Sukarno B1F3B1F6B2F4 Supreme Court B1F4B2F3 Taft-Hartley Act B2F4 taxes B1F1-B1F2B1F4B2F2 television B1F6 transit B1F4 Tshombe, Moise B2F7 Turkey B1F7B2F6 U.S. Mail B1F6 unions B1F1B1F4B1F6 United Nations B1F5B2F7 Vietnam War B1F2-B1F3B1F5B1F7-B2F5 voting rights B2F2 Walker, Edwin B2F7 Yarborough, Don B2F7 Zedong, Mao B1F2-B1F3B1F5-B1F6B2F1-B2F2B2F4
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- Preferred citation:
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Bill Sanders Cartoons,
- Location of this collection:
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Special Collections Research CenterSyracuse University LibrariesBird Library, Room 600Syracuse, NY 13244, United States
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