“When
Bill Gallo was recently asked how long it took him to draw a
cartoon, he replied, 'Two hours and 40 years.' Drawing
a Crowd is a celebration of those four decades and Gallo’s
uncanny ability to render sports stories into insightful,
single-frame drawings….The sports world is richer for it!”
—The New York Times
“This
is a classic. If I
could own only ten sports books—and I have hundreds—this would
be one of them.”
—Chicago
Tribune
“This guy’s cooler than Clyde.
We know about his talent, but what about that character!”
—Walt Frazier, basketball star
“A
rare talent!”
—Chicago Sun-Times
“The top sports cartoonist in the land.”
—Los Angeles Times
“An
engaging opus.”
—Library
Journal
“A
great book.”
—Carmine Basilio, boxing champ
“Delightful
and inspiring!”
—Rudy Giuliani, mayor of New York City
“I have been fortunate to have seen
Bill Gallo’s work for most of my life.
No one does it better than he does.
I advise any sports fan or fan of human nature to rush out
and buy this book.”
—Bobby Valentine, manager, New York Mets
“It’s
not just athletes who make home runs and touchdowns. Bill Gallo scores every time his pen touches paper.
His knowledge of sports and his interpretations of the games
and the players are incredible.
Bill Gallo is a sports treasure.
Drawing a Crowd is
a feast for the eye and the heart. You have to read this book!”
—Mort Walker, creator of the “Beetle Bailey” cartoon
“Bill
Gallo is a real talent. Besides
being one of my favorite boxing writers, he’s also a good guy, and
that comes through in this book!”
—Muhammad Ali, boxing legend
“Bill
Gallo is a sports institution.
What a treat to enjoy his work again and again through this
book.”
—Joe Torre, manager, New York Yankees
“If
Bill Gallo lived in Spain, he’d be the national writer/artist
authority on the bull ring. But his American audience wouldn’t
surrender him.”
—Leroy Neiman, renowned artist
“Nobody
can lay a glove on him!”
—Newark Star-Ledger
“Bill
Gallo is a great artist, a great human being, and now the author of
a great book.”
—Mrs. Gil Hodges
“Drawing
a Crowd is a gem!”
—Rod Gilbert, former New York Ranger
“Bill
Gallo is able to condense a circumstance, a situation, or an event
into one frame and make it crystal clear.
He has had a positive impact on countless people across the
generations.”
—Dave Winfield, baseball star
“Not
only is Bill a great artist, but a better human being….If Bill
didn’t invent sports cartooning, he sure did perfect it.”
—Ralph Branca, former Brooklyn Dodger
“Bill
Gallo is a unique man who can make you laugh even at yourself.
This book is a must read, even for General Von Steingrabber.”
—George Steinbrenner, owner, New York Yankees
"It
has always been an honor working with the great Bill Gallo at the Daily
News. But I am more than a colleague: Like everyone else, I am a
fan, of both his pictures and his words.
He is one of the giants of our business and has been for a
long time. He is an artist and a storyteller and has been carrying
on this wonderful conversation with our readers for half a century
now. I am sure it will
be going on long after I have retired.
I know his pictures will live forever.
I’ve always just assumed Bill will do the same."
—Mike Lupica, sports columnist, Daily
News
“Imagine
that you sit down for a good time chat with a friend who knows
everything about New York sports—not just scores and stats but all
the people, how they really are. He starts to talk and suddenly you
can see them all, they take shape before your eyes. That’s the
magic act Bill Gallo has been running for almost fifty years. And
the best of it all is
remembered in this book. Draw up a stool and enjoy!”
—Richard Ben Cramer, Pulitzer
Prize-winning author
“My
only nagging problem with Bill Gallo’s body of work is that it
didn’t appear in our newspaper.”
—Phil Mushnick, sports columnist, New York Post
“Bill
Gallo went out and saw people he loved and talked to them, and came
back and drew them and wrote about them in his quiet, wonderful,
unobtrusive way. He
never phoned it in on a reader once in his life.”
—Jimmy Breslin, journalist and author
“Drawing
a Crowd is as brilliant as any Gallo cartoon.”
—Mike Katz, boxing columnist, Daily News
“No
one on the sports scene today can capture that scene in words and
pictures like Bill Gallo. No one, but no one!”
—Bert Randolph Sugar, boxing writer
About the Authors
Drawing
a Crowd: Bill Gallo’s Greatest Sports Moments
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.
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.