Eddie Germano – RIP
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Sports cartoonist, and caricaturist and editorial cartoonist, Eddie Germano has passed away.
Edward Patrick (Eddie) Germano
November 15, 1924 – February 27, 2026
Edward Patrick Germano, a longtime resident of Westwood, died Friday, Feb 27, at his home in Westwood, in his 102nd year.
When he was 16 years old he earned $5 for his first published cartoon from the Roslindale Parkway Transcript starting a long and illustrious career as an editorial sports cartoonist for the Transcript newspapers, the Quincy Patriot Ledger, the Boston Globe, and the Brockton Enterprise.
In 1981 and 1992 he was selected as the National [Cartoonists Society] Sports Cartoonist of the Year and his work has been featured in the Baseball Hall of Fame and the New England Sports Museum. Eddie published a book of his drawings called The Red Sox Drawing Board 1989.
Eddie Germano’s biography from the Syracuse University Library:
Eddie Germano was born in Boston on November 15, 1924. At age 16, he started working in the office at the Boston Post. After serving in the Army and landing his first full-time cartooning job in 1948, Germano worked at several Florida and Massachusetts newspapers. In 1963 he joined the staff of the Brockton Enterprise where he created sports and editorial cartoons. At age 66, Germano left the Enterprise to pursue freelance work.
In addition to his newspaper cartoons, Germano worked on other various cartoon projects. Germano produced a cartoon television show for three years and beginning in 1971, Germano contributed special sports features to the Boston Globe. Around this time he also drew a daily sports feature for Columbia in New York. During the 1990s, Germano worked with Tom McCormick on Mr. Speaker, a strip that was never published.
Germano is particularly well known for his cartoons featuring Boston’s sports teams. In 1989 his book Red Sox Drawing Board was published and Germano won an award for his cartoon series about heavyweight boxer Rocky Marciano who was raised in Brockton.
Eddie cartooned for The Miami News in the late 1940s. Around 1950 he moved back to Massachusetts and began freelancing for area newspapers including The Boston Globe doing sports cartons and TV caricatures for the Sunday paper, and sports cartooning for The (Lyons) Daily Item.
At The Daily Evening Item in 1958 Eddie drew portraits of Lyons business leaders on nine continuous pages.
In 1963 Eddie went on staff at The Brockton Enterprise as sports and political cartoonist and general art.
Comic Art Fans has dozens of Eddie’s political cartoons available for viewing.
Eddie went freelance after The Brockton Enterprise which included his Sporteaser one column trivia panel the he started in 1965 and ran it until 1998 through Columbia Features and his own Germano Syndicate.
Eddie Germano has a website that showcases his sports and political and televison cartoons.
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