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What was Mike Luckovich thinking?

Mike Luckovich's sketch for his Willie Mays tribute cartoon.

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Mike Luckovich's sketch for his Willie Mays tribute cartoon.
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June 22, 2024
The result.

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Normally, when someone dies, I draw them at the Pearly Gates. However, when Willie Mays died this week, I remembered that back in April, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth’s home run record, I had drawn Ruth and Aaron together at the gates, so I wanted to do something different for Mays. I was clueless about what to do, and then this idea hit me.

The Hank Aaron meets Babe Ruth cartoon that ran in April.

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Mike Luckovich is the award-winning editorial cartoonist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He has twice been recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, in 1995 and 2006. He was a Pulitzer finalist in 1986. Mike joined The Atlanta Constitution staff in 1989, and he rarely cleans his office.

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