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Rube Goldberg founded the National Cartoonists Society in the 1940’s along with his cartoonist friend Clarence D. Russell, who first came up with the idea. They were then going around hospitals doing chalk talks, a popular vaudeville act, on behalf of the United Service Organization (USO).

In one of their travels, Clarence Russell was quoted as having said that every other trade has a club to belong to, hence, he suggested that they should start one for cartoonists. Rube Goldberg was hesitant at first, but he eventually conceded after much prompting from Clarence, whom their cartoonist friends fondly called C.D.

On March 1, 1946, what was formerly known as The Cartoonists Society was founded.

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On that first meeting, twenty-six cartoonists came and voted on their officers. Of course, Rube Goldberg was voted in as the Society’s first president. The other officers elected were Russell Patterson (vice president),