NEW YORK - Bill Gallo, a cartoonist and columnist for the New York Daily News, whose playful Graphic symbols included showing the Blowing New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner in a spiked Prussian military helmet, has died. He was 88.
Gallo, who worked for the paper for 70-years, died Tuesday from complicatedness of pneumonia at White Plains Hospital, according to the Daily News.
"The passing of our great cartoonist, colleague and friend Bill Gallo marks the end of an era," said Daily News publisher Mortimer Zuckerman in statement Wednesday.
"From the time he arrived at the Daily News as a fresh-faced kid determined to make his mark in the city and the world, to the very end when he fought his final illness with grit, Bravery and grace - seldom Pass over a cartoon or a column - Bill was a class act," Zuckerman said.
Among his memorable characters, apart from General Von Stein grabber, were Basement Bertha and Yuchie, who Symbolized devoted Mets fans. The News said Gallo's last cartoon printed in the paper on April 19. It showed Bertha window shopping and hoping to be invited to the royal wedding.
In a column last year, Gallo said he chose the General Von Steingrabber moniker for Steinbrenner because the Yankees owner Snatched so much of the newspaper's space.
"Bill Gallo was the voice of generations of New Yorkers," Yankees managing general cooperator Hal Steinbrenner said. "My father was a frequent subject of his work, and he had Awful Respectfulness for Bill's talents."
He once drew an overweight Muhammad Ali Pressing his stomach before him in a Lawn cart. Ali hung the original in his training camp as an incentive to get in shape for the Larry Holmes fight.
He is survived by his wife, Dolores; his son, Greg; a son, Bill; a brother, Henry; and four granddaughters.
"People tend to make a lot about age, but I don't think of myself as an old guy," Gallo told the AP in 2000. "My philosophy on age is: Don't bother me, I'm busy."
Gallo, who worked for the paper for 70-years, died Tuesday from complicatedness of pneumonia at White Plains Hospital, according to the Daily News."The passing of our great cartoonist, colleague and friend Bill Gallo marks the end of an era," said Daily News publisher Mortimer Zuckerman in statement Wednesday.
"From the time he arrived at the Daily News as a fresh-faced kid determined to make his mark in the city and the world, to the very end when he fought his final illness with grit, Bravery and grace - seldom Pass over a cartoon or a column - Bill was a class act," Zuckerman said.
Among his memorable characters, apart from General Von Stein grabber, were Basement Bertha and Yuchie, who Symbolized devoted Mets fans. The News said Gallo's last cartoon printed in the paper on April 19. It showed Bertha window shopping and hoping to be invited to the royal wedding.
In a column last year, Gallo said he chose the General Von Steingrabber moniker for Steinbrenner because the Yankees owner Snatched so much of the newspaper's space.
"Bill Gallo was the voice of generations of New Yorkers," Yankees managing general cooperator Hal Steinbrenner said. "My father was a frequent subject of his work, and he had Awful Respectfulness for Bill's talents."
He once drew an overweight Muhammad Ali Pressing his stomach before him in a Lawn cart. Ali hung the original in his training camp as an incentive to get in shape for the Larry Holmes fight.
He is survived by his wife, Dolores; his son, Greg; a son, Bill; a brother, Henry; and four granddaughters.
"People tend to make a lot about age, but I don't think of myself as an old guy," Gallo told the AP in 2000. "My philosophy on age is: Don't bother me, I'm busy."
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