Word: mullins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first break came in February, when Santa Cruz police arrested Herbert Mullin, 25, a slender, former mental patient, who is accused of killing ten of the Santa Cruz victims. Last week police in California and Colorado caught up with two other men, one believed to be the Nob Hill rapist and the other the butcher of Santa Cruz's coeds...
Sport is different, and Mullin admits to membership in the "hip-hip-hooray" school. It all started in a seventh-grade classroom in Los Angeles. "A teacher spotted my drawings in the margin of a textbook and sent me to the principal," he recalls. "The principal said, 'What's to become of you?' and I said, 'Well, I'm going to be a sports cartoonist.' " He learned lettering as a department store artist, and after an apprenticeship of cleaning paste pots and doing layout retouching for various newspapers became a semiregular cartoonist...
...Mullin cheerfully admits that "I stole from everybody." But his familiar caricatures were strictly his own inventions. The Brooklyn Bum was born one afternoon in the 1930s after the downtrodden Dodgers dropped yet another game at Ebbets Field. A cab driver carrying Mullin back to Manhattan asked him, "How'd our Bums do today?" The designation seemed brilliantly appropriate, and the woebegone tramp made his debut in the paper next day. Mullin affectionately dubbed the Dodgers Bums, and the sobriquet stuck. Before long, other cartoonists were forced to devise their own bums to denote the Dodgers...
Naturally, the Bum became Mullin's favorite caricature, but his team loyalty lay with the Giants. The New York Giants of the '30s were a team of home-run hitters who preferred powering the ball out of the park to stealing bases. Mullin drew his Giant with huge feet and a pea-sized head, explaining that his intent was "to emphasize that they were slow-footed rather than slow-headed." Those latter-day miracle makers, the New York Mets, also appealed to Mullin, who portrayed their rush to the 1969 National League pennant on TIME'S cover...
...past three years, Mullin has been doing advertising cartooning for an insurance company, Mutual of New York. He will do a few more this year, "which will buy liquor for the year." He hopes to intersperse Florida living with a little world traveling. That, of course, takes money, but presumably the Bum has already paid the bills...