Bill Gallo & Phil Cornell,
authors of
DRAWING A CROWD

BILL GALLO, the dean of the country’s sports cartoonists, has contributed his unique brand of art to New York’s Daily News for the past forty years. His illustrations have been featured in The Sporting News and other publications, and several have hung in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York.

The son of a newspaperman and a product of New York, Bill joined The News in 1941, but left to serve in the Marines during World War II. After seeing action in the Pacific Theater, including the invasion of Iwo Jima, he rejoined The News and went on to chronicle some of the most memorable dramas of our time, on the field and off. His knowing observations and good-natured sense of humor—often expressed through his playful cast of cartoon characters—have not only won him a loyal following among the "average guy" but also the accolades of his peers: He has won ten Reuben Awards from the National Cartoonists Society, and in 1999 was given that group’s lifetime achievement award. His boxing columns have earned him the James J. Walker and A. J. Liebling Awards.

Bill Gallo and his wife, Dolores, reside in Yonkers, New York, and have two sons, Gregory and Bill Jr., and four granddaughters.

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PHIL CORNELL has been a journalist for twenty-five years, working as a reporter, critic, editor and freelance writer. He’s been a sports fan even longer, having followed Bill Gallo’s drawings since the 1960s. In 1993, Phil became a colleague of Gallo’s at the Daily News, editing copy for the paper’s features department. A native of New York City, he lives in Neshanic Station, New Jersey, with his wife, Diane, and children, Paige and Cameron.