Cal Alley

Cal Alley (1915 - November 10, 1970) was the editorial cartoonist for The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tennessee from 1945 until 1970.
Hambone's Meditations
Born in Memphis, Cal Alley was the son of James Pinckney Alley, creator of the syndicated cartoon panel, Hambone's Meditations, and the first editorial cartoonist at The Commercial Appeal in 1916. The character of Hambone was inspired by J. P. Alley's encounter with a philosophical ex-slave, Tom Hunley, of Greenwood, Mississippi. Hambone's Meditations ran on the front page of The Commercial Appeal. When the elder Alley died April 16, 1934, Cal Alley and his brother James took over Hambone's Meditations. Pressure from Civil Rights groups brought the long-run cartoon series to an end in 1968. Tom Hunley told a WPA interviewer how he met J. P. Alley:

Mr. J.P. really did stay here in Greenwood once. You say you heard dat an' didn't know whether
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