And when i saw him in the picture above …
well, I don’t have the words.
I remember watching him do those drawings when I was little…it seemed he was barely waving his hand back and forth above the canvas and the picture would suddenly just appear.

I miss him terribly.

I too was wishing i new how to find some of his drawings, they don’t have to be the originals.
Though I did have two of them, he had given me Joe Montana and Dennis Eckersley.
But sadly they were stolen a few years ago.

I broke my heart to lose both him and those drawings and want very much to find out if i can look up some of his drawings –
the older ones from when I was a kid, maybe some of the ones I watched him draw.

It would mean so much to me to be able to look some up, and would appreciate so much any help doing this.

I love and miss him every day, and I thank God for letting me have him.

Thanks so much,
Nichole

My drawing appeared in the Tuesday, May 23, 1967 edition of the front page of the sports
section of the Hayward Daily Review. I recognize it has been a long time, but I would
tremendousy appreciate and value any help that could be given to me regarding this request
in Clyde’s memory.

Thank you,
Bob Herrick

“It was only a few weeks ago that I was thinking about Clyde and how he was doing. I really enjoyed working with him in his final years as a dedicated cartoonist. It crushed me when he was no longer able to draw the sketches. I still have the card he drew me from the hospital with his off-hand after he injured his drawing arm. He was a great soul that loved what he did and a loyal veteran.

His off-color humor would get him fired in today’s world, but it was just who he was and the era he lived in. One of my favorite cartoons was the first time he got a girls golfer as prep of the week: He drew the girl crushing a drive with a bubble in the lower right corner that said “great drive”; in the top left was the ball whizzing past a bird, and the bird says “damn women drivers” It was a classic that was never seen fully by the public, because the top quote was blurred out, but it had me in stitches.

Clyde was always making sure his drawings (the originals) were being delivered to the athletes who earned them. He would even pay the postage in some cases. There were a few he even had framed for the athletes. The community would always ask for the drawings, and when he first started missing weeks (when he was hurt), the people were genuinely disappointed to win the award that week, knowing Clyde would not be doing the drawing. Over his tenure, he did sketches of fathers and then 30 years later their sons or uncles and nephews.

He was a very good man, and I missed him when he left. Over the last couple of years I would drive the sketches to his house, because he could not make it up the stairs to my office, and it was great to see him and his wonderful wife.”