Cy Hungerford

Cyrus Cotton Hungerford (June 27, 1888[1] – May 25, 1983) was an American editorial cartoonist who produced daily cartoons for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette from 1927 until his retirement in 1977.

[2] Hungerford was born in Manilla, Indiana, in 1889 but lived as a child in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

[3] He later worked for the Wheeling Register before becoming editorial cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Sun for fifteen years from 1912.

[5][6] Although he worked principally as an editorial cartoonist, Cy Hungerford also produced Snoodles, a syndicated daily comic strip, for several years beginning in 1913.

[7][8] Cy Hungerford died on May 25, 1983, in the Pittsburgh suburb of Wexford, Pennsylvania, at the age of 93.