Bob Gustafson

Robert Dana Gustafson (August 8, 1920 – November 28, 2001) was an American cartoonist whose work includes eight years on Tillie the Toiler and a 27-year run on the Beetle Bailey comic books.

Gustafson attended Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts and did his first work for Bostonian magazine in the early 1940s.

[1] In the post-World War II years he did his Sunday strip Specs for the New York Tribune Syndicate.

[2] In the 1950s, he did gag cartoons for Ladies' Home Journal, Ridgefield Press, Good Housekeeping, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's and Judge.

After Westover departed, Gustafson's signature appeared on the strip beginning October 4, 1954 and ending March 7, 1959.