Overview of the Collection |
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| Creator: | Bender, Jack, 1931- |
| Title: | Jack Bender Cartoons |
| Inclusive Dates: | 1962-1968 |
| Quantity: | 1 linear foot |
| Abstract: | 24 original editorial cartoons created for the Waterloo Daily Courier. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: | Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Library 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 http://scrc.syr.edu |
Jack Bender is an American editorial cartoonist and comic strip artist.
Jack H. Bender was born March 28, 1931 in Waterloo, Iowa. Bender received a BA in journalism from the University of Iowa in 1953 and a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri where his thesis was entitled, “Editorial Cartoonists: Development Philosophy Today”. He also spent some time studying at the Art Institute of Chicago.
In St. Louis, Bender worked as art director at the Commerce Publishing Company from 1953 to 1954 and again from 1956 until 1958. He was an editor and cartoonist for the Florissant Reporter (Missouri) from 1958 until 1961. Bender returned to Waterloo, Iowa and became the editorial cartoonist at the Daily Courier in 1962 where he stayed until 1984.
Bender, interested in sports, served as a diving judge from time to time but also drew sports cartoons. He wrote and illustrated sports books and from the mid 1970s until the early 1990s he contributed cartoons to Baseball Digest, Baseball Weekly, Hockey Digest and Football News.
Bender relocated to Tulsa, Oklahoma and taught art for a time at Platt College. He moved into comic strips by assisting Don Martin with the strip Nutheads from 1989 until 1992. He began assisting Dave Graue with the drawing of caveman strip Alley Oop and became the strip’s full time artist in 1991. Bender’s wife Carole took over writing Alley Oop in 2001 when Graue retired. As of 2009, the strip appears in over 600 newspapers.
Bender received the Missouri Press Association Best Editorial award in 1960 and a Grenville Clark Editorial Page Award in 1967. In 1971 he received a Freedom Foundation Medal of Honor and in 1981 he was presented with an Air Force Commendation medal. An Orlando Con Ignatz Award was given to Bender in 1992. Bender was a member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and as of 2009 is a member of the National Cartoonists Society.
The Jack Bender Cartoons consist of 24 original editorial cartoons created for the Waterloo Daily Courier as well as four color newspaper clippings of cartoons in the collection. Most are undated. Dimensions vary but most are approximately 9 1/2" x 12". The cartoons were drawn on paper with ink, pencil, blue pencil, and zipatone screening. The cartoons in Folder 2 have overlays produced with color marker.
Numbers were assigned during processing and are not the cartoonist's own order, nor do they reflect a thematic or chronological organization.
There are no access restrictions on this material.
Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.
Special Collections Research Center has collections of over one hundred cartoonists. Please refer to the SCRC Subject Index for a complete listing.
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Jack Bender Cartoons,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Library
Gift of Jack H. Bender, 1966, 1968-1969.
Created by: -
Date: 4 Jan 1967
Revision history: 8 Aug 2005 - EAD file created (MRR);
8 Sep 2009 - added index, detailed inventory and bio (SK)
| Cartoons | |||||||||||
| See below for an index to the cartoons. | |||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 1 | #1-8 circa 1965; undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 2 | #9-13 30 Nov 1967; 3 Dec 1967; 8 Dec 1967; 11 Dec 1967; undated | ||||||||||
| Oversize 1, Folder 3 | #14-24 9 Sep 1968; 21 May (no year); undated | ||||||||||
Index to cartoons |
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| 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. | ||
| Czechoslovakia | B1F3 | |
| Democratic National Convention | B1F3 | |
| Democratic Party | B1F1-B1F2 | |
| Gross, H.R. | B1F1 | |
| Humphrey, Hubert | B1F3 | |
| Iowa | B1F1-B1F3 | |
| Iowa Legislature | B1F3 | |
| King Jr., Martin Luther | B1F3 | |
| Nixon, Richard M. | B1F3 | |
| Republican Party | B1F1-B1F2 | |
| Vietnam War | B1F2-B1F3 | |
| Wallace, George | B1F3 | |
| boycott | B1F1 | |
| college students | B1F1-B1F3 | |
| communism | B1F3 | |
| demonstrations | B1F2-B1F3 | |
| draft | B1F1, B1F3 | |
| federal aid | B1F1 | |
| freedom of information | B1F1 | |
| high food prices | B1F1 | |
| missile secrets | B1F1 | |
| old spoils system | B1F2 | |
| politicians | B1F1, B1F3 | |
| poverty | B1F1-B1F2 | |
| public service | B1F2 | |
| secrecy | B1F1 | |
| taxes | B1F2-B1F3 | |
| teachers | B1F1 | |
| vandalism | B1F2 | |
