Russell Johnson (cartoonist)

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Russell Johnson
Born	December 10, 1893 Gibson City, Illinois
Died	September 7, 1995 (aged 101) Gibson City, Illinois
Alma mater	School of the Art Institute of Chicago Dixon College and Norman School
Occupation	Cartoonist
Known for	Creator/artist of Mister Oswald

Russell Johnson (December 10, 1893 – September 7, 1995) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator and artist of Mister Oswald, a monthly comic strip that ran for more than six decades in the national trade journal now called Hardware Retailing. The strip documents a large portion of the history of American business life, as seen through the eyes of the main character, Oscar S. Oswald, a prominent citizen of the fictional Dippy Center, US. Although the strip was known primarily to hardware retailers, a book, Forty Years With Mister Oswald, was published in 1968, collecting the comic strips.