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 – June 15, 1910 –  ANOTHER California sporting cartoonist destined for fame was LEROY ROBERT RIPLEY who was born in Santa Rosa, California, on Dec 25, 1890, although he would claim the year of his birth as 1893. He would say he sold his first cartoon to the old Life while just four years of age. In 1909, Ripley moved to San Francisco to become a sports cartoonist at the Bulletin for $8 a

– Self-caricature with Ghosts – Harry Hershfield, the Mensch by Rick Marschall Harry Hershfield was a blessing to know. Part of this crazy Forrest-Gump like existence, where a guy writing to you in 2018 (me), actually knew or met, corresponded with or visited, pioneers like Rube Goldberg and Harry Hershfield and Rudy Dirks and Jimmy Swinnerton. Pioneers, yes, but relics, really, in