Bill Gallo, who captured the spectacles and personalities of sports as a cartoonist at The Daily News for more than 50 years, expressing in warmhearted caricatures the deep affection New York fans felt for their heroes, died on Tuesday in White Plains.  Bill Gallo, legendary Daily News cartoonist and columnist, dies at 88 after lengthy illness 
 
 Thomas Monaster for News Daily News legend Bill Gallo dies at the age of 88 late Tuesday night. "My father is a lasting legend to New York, and to New York sports," said Gallo's son Greg. His 15,000 cartoons for The Daily News included a gallery of popular stock characters, chief among them Basement Bertha, a washerwoman and die-hard Mets fan who appeared in his last cartoon, on April 19, window-shopping for a dress in case she was invited to the royal wedding in London.
– The New York Daily News is mourning a man described as one of the greatest talents sports journalism has ever seen. Cartoonist and columnist Bill Gallo, who worked for the paper for the best part of 70 years, has died of pneumonia aged 88, reports the New York Times. Gallo, a Marine who fought in battles included Iwo Jima, drew more than 15,000 cartoons for the paper, winning praise for his vivid impressions of sports events of all kinds. Gallo—described by boxing historian Bert Sugar as "second-most outstanding symbol of New York, other than the Statue of Liberty"—kept producing cartoons and columns from hospital beds as his health declined over recent months. "I can't imagine the Daily News without Bill," sports editor Teri Thompson says. "It was an incredible honor to work with someone who so loved our business, and could take you back to JoeDiMaggio and Joe Louis in one moment and to Tiger Woods and Carmelo Anthony the next, all with a smile and a flick of the pen."