Bruce Alexander Russell (August 4, 1903 – December 18, 1963) was an American editorial cartoonist and comics artist.
After studying at the Southern branch of the University of California, where he worked for the Cub Californian,<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20060526024126/http://www.ulwaf.com/Daily-Bruin-History/02_Beginnings.html George Garrigues, Loud Bark and Curious Eyes: A History of the UCLA Daily Bruin, 1919-1955]</ref> he was hired for the Los Angeles Times as a sports cartoonist in 1927. He also drew a nationally syndicated cartoon, Rollo Rollingstone (for AP Newsfeatures) during the early 1930s. In 1934 he became the lead cartoonist for the Times,'' a position he held until his death of a heart attack.
Russell won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1946. His winning cartoon, entitled "Time to Bridge that Gulch," shows an American eagle and a Russian bear facing each other over a gulch filled with "irresponsible statements" and "deepening suspicions."
His papers are held at University of California, Los Angeles.
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Lambiek Comiclopedia article.