Grant, Lou (1920 – 2001)

Lou Grant original cartoon artwork.

Lou Grant began his career at the age of 17 as a copy boy for the now-defunct Los Angeles Examiner. He learned to draw by getting lessons from staff cartoonists in the art department in exchange for mowing their lawns. Grant drew political cartoons for The Oakland Tribune from 1954 to 1986 and was syndicated by the Los Angeles Times to many newspapers and often reprinted in Time and Newsweek magazines. Among Grant's presidential cartoons, a favorite of exhibitors was one of Richard M. Nixon, with both arms raised high in his traditional victory gesture, wearing a T-shirt reiterating "I am not a crook" but also, subtly sketched, a burglar's mask.