Collectible Original Comic Strip Art ~ 1960 Football Cartoon ~ OFFERS CONSIDERED

Lee Susman, an award-winning cartoonist whose drawings graced the Oakland Tribune sports pages for more than 35 years. The Emeryville resident was 94 when he died. Susman’s cartoons depicting local college and pro football, baseball and basketball teams appeared in the Tribune from 1946 until his retirement in 1983.
Susman was inducted into the PCL Hall of Fame in 2008. Leland “Lee” Stanford Susman was born in San Francisco on July 27, 1917.
In 1939, Susman won a competition to draw a comic strip for the San Francisco Call-Bulletin newspaper. After spending five years in the Navy during World War II, the Tribune hired Susman as a sports cartoonist. That year, he created “The Lil’ Acorn,” the Oaks’ mascot.

Presented is a very creative, original cartoon by Lee Susman. It consists of a hand drawn illustration on white stock paper. There is white out and corrections. There is a signature at the bottom, right.