Greatest Cartoonist Death In History

According to this fond remembrance of the Kentucky Derby from 50 years ago, a sporting event that came at the beginning of Bill Gallo's longtime, full-time career at the New York Daily News, esteemed sport cartoonist and occasional strip (the Fu Manchu strip) and comic book (early Detective Comics) dabbler Leo O'Mealia passed away during the night before one of his favorite days on the sports calendar having drawn a cartoon that predicted the winner Venetian Day, in no way a favorite going in.

That is one of the most astounding things I've ever heard, combining the graceful confluence of Charles Schulz passing as Peanuts ended its mighty run with the outright expression of the mental superpowers of a Nostradamus, sans obfuscation via verse.
 
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