birth_place collaborators subcat imagesize nationality art cartoon birth_date area article_title name
new york city nick kenny american 150 american y y 1936 illustrator , artist richard bassford
 richard bassford
richard bassford

richard bassford -lrb- born 1936 -rrb- is an american illustrator who has worked in both advertising and comic books .
born in manhattan , bassford lived from age three in the queens neighborhoods of maspeth , corona and whitestone until his marriage in 1961 , when he moved to flushing .
in 1975 , bassford settled in cold spring , new york .
