Bill Kresse

William Joseph Kresse (June 17, 1933 - January 21, 2014)^[1] was an American cartoonist who drew the comic strip "Super" Duper, which was published in the New York Daily News in the 1960s and 1970s.^[2]

After graduating from New York City's High School of Art and Design, he began working for the animation studio Terrytoons, in New Rochelle, New York.^[3] He went on to design conveyor belt systems before obtaining a job in the art department of the news agency the Associated Press.^[3] He went on to become an illustrator and cartoonist at the New York Daily News, the New York Herald-Tribune and other newspapers. Kresse and Rolf Ahlsen created the comic strips "Super" Duper and Scratch, often signed under the joint credit Krahlsen.^[3]

Kresse received the National Cartoonists Society's 1974 Advertising and Illustration Award.^[4]

Kresse was married to Lorraine Kresse,^[1] who has been board president of their cooperative apartment house, Terrace View,^[5] in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens,^[2] and a member of Queens Community Board 3.^{[citation needed]}

Kresse died on January 21, 2014, at New York Hospital Queens, in the Flushing neighborhood.^[1]

References

1. "William Joseph Kresse (1933-2014)". Dignity Memorials. from the original on February 3, 2014. Retrieved 2014-01-24.
2. Heintjes, Tom; Buethe, Bob (July 3, 2012). . Hogan's Alley. No. 15. Archived from the original on April 12, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
3. Bill Kresse at the Lambiek Comiclopedia. from the original on May 6, 2012.
4. "NCS Awards > Advertising Illustration". National Cartoonists Society. from the original on July 26, 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
5. Hedderman, Domini (October 2006). "Getting Good Help: Recruiting (and Keeping) New Board Members". The Cooperator. from the original on July 1, 2014. Retrieved February 1, 2015.

External links

• Edelman, Scott (January 22, 2014). "Bill Kresse 1933-2014". Scott Edelman (official site). from the original on February 1, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
• Gingerich, Jon (January 27, 2014). "Bill Kresse, Longtime O'Dwyer's Illustrator, Dies". O'Dwyer's. from the original on February 1, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2015.