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Leo O'Mealia PB/Balk/WP

Artist: Leo O'Mealia (All)

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Artwork Details

Title:	Leo O'Mealia PB/Balk/WP
Artist:	Leo O'Mealia (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Interior Page
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	71
Likes on CAF:	3 4
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	7/18/2024
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Description

I just love the overall design of the characters and the great linework done by O'Mealia.
In the bottom-right corner, you will find the usual "LEO THE LION" icon used by Leo. I have tried to determine what rule is being referenced with the comment "Ja hear about th' new rule?". I'd love to know so that I could try to carbon-date this piece as to when it was published.

ABOUT LEO

Leo O'Mealia (1884–1960) was known for creating baseball cartoons depicting a generic team making a type of play through a series of sequential images. Often making fun of typical mistakes or accidents resulting in a positive result.

Leo would always place a cute lion somewhere on the page. ABOUT LEO Leo was a sports cartoonist for the Rochester Herald, the Rochester Times, The Globe and the New York Daily News. Leo's work is featured in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. In most of his drawings he added a little friendly frisky lion which became his trademark. He was the creator of a popular syndicated comic strip called Wedlock. Between 1930 and 1931, he did 816 illustrations for 9 Sherlock Holmes short stories (from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes) written by Arthur Conan Doyle. In some of these illustrations he signed as "Leo".

Leo created the cover art for Action Comics (issues 2, 3, 4, 5, 6), Adventure Comics (41) and and for Detective Comics (issues 20 and 21). And weirdly, he is credited for cover art on Superman #1. But here's what's weird (taken from DCFandom.com site): "The cover for this issue comes from the first panel of Action Comics #10. The panel was photostatted and cut out by Leo O'Mealia, who then drew the ornate frame around it."

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	Dwayne Dush
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Last Login:	September 2025
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John C
Member Since 2014

1 - Posted on 7/18/2024

You will have to pick up a new one about the pitch clock.

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 7/19/2024

It's making the case for the scorekeeper to keep his job. Very nice focus with the circle that would frame this scene like how a TV camera would eventually be used to show a view of the action.

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