Robert “Bob” Bindig, 1920-2007

Alan Gardner at Daily Cartoonist is reporting the death of the great advertising artist and cartoonist Bob Bindig this Tuesday just past. I am unable to confirm.

Bindig was trained in Buffalo and was drafted for the second half of the Second World War, where he belonged to the Psychological Warfare Detachment, meaning he created art for various piece of information disseminating publications up to and including outright propaganda. His entry at Lambiek.net notes that while heading up the art department for the Military government in post-war Korea he created the comic strip The Mischievous Twin Bears for a Korean newspaper. When he returned home, he turned to commercial art and became a highly-respected art director. Among his clients were Fisher Price. He was honored in 1989 with the divisional Reuben for Best Advertising Cartoonist. Bindig also took home an Ink Pot from San Diego in 1982.

His ten year run on the Big Boy comics began in 1985; his departure preceded the character's final comic book by approximately a year.
 
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