Clem Boddington

• Born 1900-12-25 · Died 1962-09-04

Clem Boddington did sports-centric cartoons, illustrations, and comics for Street and Smith from about 1947 to about 1949. Clem did cartoons for the Miami Herald (Miami, Florida) during 1926. He did sports cartoons for the Brooklyn Eagle (Brooklyn, New York) during 1927. Boddington was a sports cartoonist for the Brooklyn Standard Union (Brooklyn, New York) during 1928. His sports cartoons in the 1920s were sometimes used to replace Robert Ripley's sports cartoons in the newspapers. He was a sports cartoonist and writer for magazines from the 1930s to the 1960s. He did cartoons and was assistant to the editor for publications created by the Brooklyn-based alcohol manufacturer Austin, Nichols, Inc. during the 1940s. Boddington's Sports Oddities cartoon was recorded for National Broadcasting Company (NBC) in 1942. Clem Boddington was a boxing promoter in the Manhattan, New York area during the 1940s. He did Sports Oddities calendars based on his cartoon feature by the same name starting in 1953 and continuing into the 1960s. His sports cartoon series, "Names to Remember" was also made into a calendar in 1947. He also did the artwork for other calendars, including one about American History in which he was awarded a 1955 Freedom Award from the Freedom Foundation of Valley Forge in 1956. Clem was a member of the Catholic Guild of the Liquor, Beer and Wine Industry.