Prominent sports cartoonists have included Bill Gallo, Bruce Stark and Ed Murawinski.

Bill Gallo, 88, American cartoonist and newspaper columnist, complications from pneumonia.

May 10 - Bill Gallo, 88, cartoonist for the New York Daily News for seven decades, whose playful characters included hundreds of baseball gems.

"They always won on sheer energy," said Bill Gallo, the veteran sports cartoonist for The Daily News.

Bill Gallo (2001)

By Bill Gallo with Phil Cornell.

The evocative drawings of Bill Gallo, for the past 40 years the sports cartoonist of The Daily News in New York.

"In the old days sportswriters worked harder at nicknames," says Bill Gallo, the veteran sports cartoonist and columnist at The Daily News.

Bill Gallo (December 28, 1922 - May 10, 2011) was a cartoonist and newspaper columnist for the New York Daily News.

The clean, broad strokes of Bill Gallo, whose cartoons have bounded off the pages of The Daily News since 1954, come from the heart of a fan.