Henry Martin (July 15, 1925 – June 30, 2020) was an American cartoonist. He was born in

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to Lyman and Adele Martin, who were

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. He had an older brother Lyman Jr. and a younger sister Adele. He went to high school at Texas Country Day (now St. Mark's School of Texas) in Dallas, then graduated from

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in 1948 with a degree in Art History. He subsequently studied art at the American Academy of Art in Chicago. He was the father of popular children's author Ann M. Martin. According to a press release from Princeton University: :Martin worked as a cartoonist and illustrator for more than 50 years, publishing in

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, Punch,

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, the Princeton Alumni Weekly and many other magazines. His single-panel comic strip, "Good News/Bad News," was nationally syndicated, and he wrote and/or illustrated more than 35 books. He retired in 1995. In the 1950s and 1960s Mr. Martin provided numerous comic illustrations for books published by the Peter Pauper Press in

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. Martin received the

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Gag Cartoon Award for 1978 for his work. He died on 30 June 2020 at the age of 94.Henry Martin: 1925- 2020
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*Ann Martin
Happy Father’s Day, Dad
(May 2000)
NCS Awards
*Mark Anderson

(January 2014) American magazine cartoonists American magazine illustrators American humorists The New Yorker cartoonists 1925 births 2020 deaths Artists from Louisville, Kentucky St. Mark's School (Texas) alumni Princeton University alumni {{US-cartoonist-stub

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