A past president of the AAEC, Mr. Hill wrote its magazine’s history column and won Germany’s Thomas Nast Prize in 1990, said member V. Cullum Rogers. “He was a repository of history. Among working cartoonists in the U.S., he probably knew more about the field than any other.”

In 1983, he earned a Guggenheim Fellowship to work on a biography of political cartoonist Thomas Nast.

Hill was on the staff of the Harvard Lampoon in the 1950s. He began his newspaper career as a cartoonist at the Patriot Ledger and Worcester Telegram in Massachusetts and worked at the Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn before joining The Detroit News in 1976.