Clyde Schmidt, 1921-2007



Clyde Schmidt, a sports cartoonist for over four decades at The Daily Review in Hayward, California, passed away on Tuesday.

Schmidt was born in Pittsburgh and educated at Carnegie Mellon. He served in the Navy in both World War II and in Korea. Judging from the biographical information he provided the National Cartoonists Society, it looks as if Schmidt started with technical drawing while in the Navy and then moved into freelance commercial art and then cartooning. He cites You Can Draw Cartoons by Lou Darvas as a particular inspiration in that document.

He split time between mechanical work and his art until his retirement from the former in the early 1970s. Schmidt's greatest contribution to The Daily Review was a long-running series of cartoon portraits depicting the area's high school player of the week. That feature ended after a 40-plus year run early this decade. Schmidt was likely one of the last sports cartoonists -- once a position on roughly equal standing with editorial cartooning -- that worked on a regular basis.

Clyde Schmidt was 86 years old. He is survived by a wife of 52 years, two daughters, and multiple grandkids and great-grandkids.
 
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