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February 26, 2005
Black Press Cartoonist Melvin Tapley Dies After Long Illness
Melvin Tapley, 86, died Tuesday, February 8, 2005 in Valhalla, N.Y., after a long illness. He was a retired arts editor for the Amsterdam Newspapers and one of the leading cartoonists of the black press, drawing for the New York "Amsterdam" Newspaper from the 1940s until he retired in the late 1990s.
Melvin Tapley started at the Amsterdam in 1942 drawing "The Brown Family" as his first assignment. He later he took over "Jim Steel" in 1943, and drew editorial cartoons in late 1940s.
For more information on Tapley and other cartoonists, please see Tim Jackson’s Pioneering Cartoonist of Color Web site for details.