Accomplishments

Some selected accolades.

 
 

 

• Sports Cartoonist, Short-term Political Cartoonist & Special Features Illustrator for the N.Y. Daily News for 22 years

• Bruce's "Stark Impressions" feature appeared in the Coloroto Section of the Sunday N.Y. Daily News

• Won National Cartoonist Society's Reubens Category Awards for Sports in 1966 & 1975 and Special Features Award in 1968

• Won Page 1 Award for N.Y.C. Best Sports Cartoon in 1970, 1971 & 1973

• Won 3rd, 4th, 6th prizes at the International Salon de Caricatures, Montreal 1966, 1968, 1969

• Won Most Outstanding Achievement Award, School of Visual Arts, 1982

• One-man art shows, Art Institute, Pittsburgh, University of Pennsylvania, Kutztown, Pa., 1970, N.Y. Bank for Savings, N.Y.C. 1971

• 1969 Met's World Series Album

• Mrs. Babe Ruth requested his Sports Cartoon of the Babe

 

• Original Cartoons requested by Presidents Nixon & Johnson

• Commissioned to do Ted Williams Museum's annual magazine cover

• Bruce had illustrations on the covers of Time, Forbes, Fortune, TV Guide, and Industry Week magazines

• Work appeared in Golf Digest, Reader's Digest, Saturday Evening Post, Madd Comics & Sports Collector's Digest

• Received Cleveland Press Club's Excellence in Journalism Award for Illustration

• Art and Caricatures requested by numerous personalities including Art Carney, Suzanne Pleshette, Priscilla Presley, Buddy Hackett, Ted Williams, Xavier Cougart to name a few

• Illustrated the cover of the book, "Wit & Wisdom of Yogi Berra" 

• Represented in permanent collections Everett Dirksen Library, L.D. Johnson Library, Baseball Hall of Fame, Basketball Hall of Fame