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Image courtesy of the LBJ Library, Museum Artifact Collection, Artifact No. 1965.28.25
Image courtesy of the LBJ Library, Museum Artifact Collection, Artifact No. 1965.28.25
Gene Basset
Image courtesy of the LBJ Library, Museum Artifact Collection, Artifact No. 1965.28.25
Image courtesy of the LBJ Library, Museum Artifact Collection, Artifact No. 1965.28.25

Gene Basset

American, born 1927
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Gene Basset began his career at the Indianapolis Times as a sketch artist, the Brooklyn Eagle as a theatrical caricaturist, and the Boston Post as a sports cartoonist. Basset traveled to Hawaii in 1961, after teaching at the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut, to work as a editorial cartoonist for the Hawaii Star Bulletin. After that, Basset worked as an editorial cartoonist for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers from 1962 to 1981 and the Atlanta Journal from 1982 to 1992.
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