Comments on: Goodbye, Old Friend

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:42:08 +0000

[5],[7] Same here, except I never met him. But being a cartoonist myself, I did study him fairly often. Definitely old school, but that old school you learn something new from.

I had a strong feeling his time was coming; it seemed to me like the past year or two has been a sort of farewell tribute/tour among his peers and colleagues; nice way to go out if you have to, I say…

By: Bluenatic

Bluenatic — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:04:11 +0000

I had the privilege of getting to know Gallo a bit from a book project I edited that he contributed a foreword and some artwork to. All I can say is that he was one of the kindest, most generous people I have ever run into in this business. A mensch’s mensch. R.I.P.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:48:51 +0000

Mine was a Times household but starting in 8th grade (1984), I read the News everyday, for Lupica and Gallo.

Met him once at a tribute for W.C. Heinz. Huge boxing fan.

By: Shaun P.

Shaun P. — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:29:33 +0000

[1] [2] [4] I will also gladly join in.

I came to Gallo’s work much later than you guys – us upstate kids didn’t live and die with the NYC papers – but its hard to believe he’s gone.

By: RagingTartabull

RagingTartabull — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:27:57 +0000

I always have the feeling, and maybe this is because my generation was the last to “grow up” with newspapers, that whenever something happened with the Yankees you HAD to get the Daily News take on it the next day.

Yeah their sports page covered all the teams, but there was always a thought of “If you want to read about the Yankees, you read the Daily News.” So I think as Yankee fans this one strikes a bit of a nerve even though there was no “real” connection between Gallo and the Yankees, there felt like there was.

By: rbj

rbj — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:16:34 +0000

[2] Aw shucks, if you’re doing it I guess I will have to as well.

Gallo was the one who made the 1980s era Yankees bearable (well, Mattingly & Winfield too.) I really have to surpress my frustration with Steinbrenner during that decade.

By: Jon DeRosa

Jon DeRosa — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:05:07 +0000

Growing up in Jersey, we had the Bergen Record and the NYT. So the only times we could see his cartoons were our visits to my grandparents house in Queens. Can’t think of these cartoons without putting myself in that living room, the smell of my grandmother’s manicotti, fried chicken, and antipasto mixing with the newsprint as my brothers and I flipped through small piles of that week’s Daily News. I imagine he reached into a lot of living rooms that way.

By: Alex Belth

Alex Belth — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:02:02 +0000

That sounds ideal. I’ll raise a glass from home in unison!

By: RagingTartabull

RagingTartabull — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:49:24 +0000

I plan on raising a glass in the bleachers tonight, a true legend