A Classic Topps Baseball Card Artists Update: Anon No More
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Here it is only a month to go in the 2026 Major League Baseball (MLB) season and we haven’t checked in with Eric White’s updated research into “Who Drew the Classic Topps Baseball Cartoons?”
In previous installments White has identified many of the cartoonists who decorated the backs of Topps baseball cards from the “classic” years of the 1950s and 1960s, but there still remained some mystery artists.
In “Bubblegum Pop of the Mid-’60s” White thinks he has identified a prolific anonymous cartoonist of the era.
After years of searching for additional clues, I believe I can now unveil the identity of an artist who contributed more than 2,000 baseball card cartoons in a jaunty ‘funnies’ style that evolved over six Topps sets, starting in 1961 and continuing from 1963 to 1967.
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The work of this artist will be familiar to anyone who collected (or collects) the baseball cards of 1963 and 1964, because he did every single cartoon in those sets, and many others across four other sets of that era. His players have simple little faces with crooked smiles stretched across the nearest cheek, prominent ears, and their caps pulled down over the eyes.
White coyly refers to the artist as “Henry” until the end of his newest article when he reveals the cartoonist.
The Eric White archive at Sports Collectors Daily has a few more entries since we checked in with him last Fall.
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