American Legion Magazine, Sport, Military Life, True, Golf, Argosy, Parade, 1000 Jokes Magazine, For Laughing Out Loud, Saga and Boys’ Life. He once said his best work appeared in 1000 Jokes Magazine. In the late 1960s he created a regular feature for Boys’ Life called “The Cartoon Bug.” Aspiring young cartoonists submitted their best work and Gallagher critiqued their work and published it with succinct comments on the art of cartooning. They received $25 for their efforts. After the feature ran its course in Boys’ Life it was syndicated, appearing biweekly in newspapers in the United States and Canada. When the magazine cartoon markets began to dry up in the late 1960s, John left freelancing and became Art Director for American Kitchen Foods, where he designed packaging and promotional material for their new frozen French fry products, including “Tasti Fries.” Later, he drew more than a hundred oversized industrial safety posters for Marlin Industries, where his cartoonist friend Herb Green was Art Director. During this period, he also began a long association with fellow cartoonist Bob Weber, supplying gags for his syndicated comic strip, Moose. When his brother, George Gately, launched his popular syndicated newspaper comic panel, Heathcliff (McNaught/Creator’s Syndicate), in 1971, Gallagher became involved in all creative aspects of the feature. He was Heathcliff’s primary gagwriter and layout penciler until shortly before his death. Today, the comic strip is drawn by their nephew, Peter Gallagher. He received the National Cartoonist Society Gag Cartoon Award for 1957 and 1971 for his work. Later life and death John Gallagher died at age 79 on March 17, 2005, of complications from emphysema. His papers have been donated to The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum in Columbus, Ohio. Bibliography Too Funny for Words: A Book for People Who Can’t Read by Bill Yates Dell Publishing (1954) Let’s go to Bedlam by Charles Preston Shelley Publishing (1954) Best Cartoons of the Year by Lawrence Lariar Crown Publishers (1955, 1956, 1958 – 1960-1964, 1968) Forever Funny by Bill Yates First Edition 93 Dell Publishing (1956) Hits, Runs and Social Errors: Cartoons from Sports Illustrated by Charles Preston Random House (1956) One Moment Sir by John Bailey E.P. Dutton (1957) The Saturday Evening Post Cartoon Festival by Marione R. Nickles E. P. Dutton (1958) The True Album of Cartoons, Crown Publishers (1960) Best of the Best Cartoons by Lawrence Lariar Crown (1961) Still Too Funny