Chauncey Addison Day, better known as Chon Day, (April 6, 1907 – Jan 1, 2000) was an American cartoonist whose cartoons appeared in ''

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'' and other magazines. Born in

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, Day attended

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in 1926, where he drew for the college's humor magazine, ''The Burr''. After one year, he left and later enrolled in 1929 at New York City's

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, where he studied under

Boardman Robinson Boardman Michael Robinson (1876–1952) was a Canadian-American painter, illustrator and cartoonist. Biography Early years Boardman Robinson was born September 6, 1876 in Nova Scotia. He spent his childhood in England and Canada, before movin ...

George Bridgman George Brant Bridgman (November 5, 1864 – December 16, 1943) was a Canadian-American painter, writer, and teacher in the fields of anatomy and figure drawing. Bridgman taught anatomy for artists at the Art Students League of New York for some ...

and

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. That same year his cartoons were first published in national magazines.

''Brother Sebastian''

His cartoon series '' Brother Sebastian'' began in 1954 in the magazine '' Look'', where it ran for years. These cartoons were collected in several Doubleday books, ''Brother Sebastian'' (1957), ''Brother Sebastian Carries On'' (1959) and ''Brother Sebastian at Large'' (1961), reprinted in paperback by

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. Day described his character in the introduction to ''Brother Sebastian at Large'': :It is a pleasure to bring you a new book of our gentle, imperturbable monk, Brother Sebastian. Now seven years old, he still retains the qualities with which he was born—his hearty appetite for fun (and his large waistline); his love for children, dogs, and underdogs; his tendency to be the "quiet type"; his good-humored but faithful dedication. His glasses are for neither nearsightedness nor farsightedness but are precisely fitted for impish antics.

Awards

Day received the

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Gag Cartoon Award for 1956, 1962 and 1970, plus their Special Features Award for ''Brother Sebastian'' in 1969. Day died in 2000, according to ''

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'' (May 2000), where he had been their "longest running cartoonist" for more than half a century.

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''Brother Sebastian'' animated
American cartoonists The New Yorker cartoonists 1907 births 2000 deaths Lehigh University alumni Christian comics creators {{US-cartoonist-stub