Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Access Points
Biography
Scope and Content
Descriptive Summary
Title: Bastian (Bob) Cartoon Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1967-1992
Collection number: Mss79
Creator:
Beverly Bastian Meyers
Extent: 0.25 linear ft. + full map drawer (20 oversized
folders)
Repository:
University of the Pacific. Library. Holt-Atherton Department of
Special Collections
Shelf location: For current information on the location of
these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
Language: English.
Administrative Information
Related Material
Robert Bastian Cartoons at Syracuse University Library.
http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/b/bastian_r.htm
Access
Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Bastian (Bob) Cartoon Collection, Mss79,
Holt-Atherton Department of Special Collections, University of the Pacific
Library
Access Points
personal name
Bastian, Robert Owen (d. 1970)
subject
Politicians -United states
subject
Politicians -California
subject
United States -Politics and government -Caricatures and
cartoons
subject
California -Politics and government -Caricatures and
cartoons
subject
San Francisco (Calif.) -Politics and government -Caricatures and
cartoons
subject
Cartoonists -California -San Francisco
Biography
Robert O. Bastian spent his early years in Stockton, Calif. In 1940 he
received a B.A. in Political Science from the College of the Pacific. Following
graduation, Bastian studied art with Dong Kingman at the San Francisco Art
Institute until the outbreak of World War II. After serving with the Marines in
the South Pacific, he worked in San Francisco as an advertising illustrator
until hired as editorial cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle in 1953.
Bastian held this position until a 1968 strike forced him to seek other
employment. In that same year he was hired as cartoonist-in-residence by San
Francisco Public Broadcasting's KQED-TV for a nightly hour-long news program
called "Newsroom." Bastian's role on this program was to draw one cartoon each
night during the course of the show. KQED published a collection of his 1968/69
efforts as
The Best of Bastian. Bob Bastian
committed suicide in 1970.
Scope and Content
The Bastian Collection consists of clippings and other biographical
material, as well as original drawings and published copies of Bastian's two
books:
Souvenir Book of San Francisco and
The Best of Bastian.
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