Karl Hubenthal’s obituary is long. It’s a glowing remembrance of a man who friends said lived a full life, one decorated with accomplishments few matched.



The memorial made mention of the celebrity friends Hubenthal kept in Los Angeles and the programs he designed for the Los Angeles Dodgers and Harlem Globetrotters. It noted that he was a celebrated artist who landed his first full-time job at 17 and quickly rose to prominence as one of the best sports cartoonists in the nation. It revealed Hubenthal’s transition from sports to politics after World War II, which he proudly served in as a member of the Marines. It cheered the seven National Cartoonists Society awards that Hubenthal won, the five Pulitzer Prizes he was nominated for, and the fact that his work hangs in the collections of eight U.S. Presidents. It celebrated Hubenthal as a family man, a Nebraska native who met his wife Elsie in high school in Southern California and remained married to her for...