Willard Mullin

Willard Mullin (September 14, 1902 – December 20, 1978) was an American sports cartoonist.

He is most famous for his creation of the "Brooklyn Bum",[1] the personification of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, based on circus clown Emmett Kelly's "Weary Willie" hobo persona.

When the Mets looked to be winning the National League East in 1969, Time commissioned Mullin to draw a cover for a feature on the team.

An oversize retrospective collection of Willard Mullin cartoons, titled Willard Mullin's Golden Age of Baseball: Drawings 1934–1972, was published by Fantagraphics Books in 2013.

In 2015, Fantagraphics Books published Willard Mullin's Casey at the Bat and Other Diamond Tales.