H. M. Talburt

Harold Morton Talburt (February 19, 1895 – October 24, 1966) was an American cartoonist and illustrator who received the 1933 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

Talburt started his career as a reporter with the Toledo News-Bee in 1916, and became an editorial cartoonist with the Scripps–Howard News Services in 1922.

He was a member of the Gridiron Club of Washington, D.C., and served as its president in 1943.

Talburt was married to Marguerite Haynes Coombs until her death in 1944.

[4][5] He died of cancer at his Kenwood, Maryland, home on October 24, 1966, aged 71.

Casey the Cop comic strip, 1922