Award-winning sports cartoonist Willard Mullin was famous for creating the very animated “Brooklyn Bum,” who was the embodiment of all things Dodger, and came to represent an epoch of New York baseball in the 1930's through the 1950’s. Here is an original illustration, complete with white-outs, production notes, and blossoming graphic ideas. A true American original, Mullin has fun here with the Gilbert and Sullivan masterwork, “The Mikado,” as the Bum dons a Japanese kimono, and plays off the lyrics and score of that famed operetta’s opening song, “If you want to know who we are.” Artwork measures 15 ? x 22 ?”, and is peppered with energy and genius (and a couple of overtly derogatory references towards, and an overall crude characterization of, the Japanese). Piece is EX.