Biography

Hubenthal attended both Hollywood High School

Hollywood High School

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 (class of 1935) and Chouinard Art School, now Chouinard Art Institute

Chouinard Art Institute

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, in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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. Hubenthal got his first job in the Art Department of the Los Angeles Herald-Express, the same year he graduated from high school. A few years later, Hubenthal began drawing a weekly sports cartoons. Eventually, Hubenthal left to serve in the Marine Corps during World War II.

Career

Following the war Hubenthal worked as a freelancer, focusing on advertisements. By 1949, he went back to cartooning at another Hearst publication, the Los Angeles Examiner. He became the Examiner's full-time editorial cartoonist

Editorial cartoonist

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 in 1956.
When his former publication, the Herald-Express was combined with the Examiner in 1962 Hubenthal's cartoons were carried over to the new publication (the Herald-Examiner). While Hubenthal's work was also in syndication to other Hearst publications and he was also continued to draw sports cartoons and other pieces of sports-themed art. Hubenthal's work was distributed nationally by Hearst's publications for over 30 years. He retired from the Herald-Examiner in 1982.
He served as President of the Society of Illustrators

Society of Illustrators

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, President of the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists, and Regional Director of the National Cartoonists Society

National Cartoonists Society

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He died of cancer in 1998.

Awards

With a newspaper career that spanned 47 years, Hubenthal won 25 Freedom Foundation medals, the National Headliners Award, the Helms Foundation medal, and received five Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

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 nominations.
Hubenthal also received seven awards from the National Cartoonist Society. He received the NCS Editorial Cartoon Award for 1961, 1967, and 1970, and their Sports Cartoon Award for 1971, 1979, 1980, and 1982.

External links

• NCS Awards
• Karl Hubenhtal
• Karl Hubenthal Papers 1952-1967 at Syracuse University (primary source material)