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'''Preston Allen Dean, Jr.''' (August 25, 1915 – August 15, 2011), known as '''Pap Dean''', was an [[United States|American]] [[cartoon]]ist who was employed from 1938 to 1979 as chief illustrator and editorial cartoonist<ref name=ddeath>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20110818/NEWS01/108180346/Longtime-political-cartoonist-Pap-Dean-dies-age-95-Alexandria?odyssey=tab{{!}}topnews{{!}}text{{!}}FRONTPAGE|title=Longtime political cartoonist 'Pap' Dean dies at age of 95 in Alexandria|publisher=''The Alexandria Daily Town Talk''|date=August 18, 2011|accessdate=August 18, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> for ''The Shreveport Times'' in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]].
'''Preston Allen Dean, Jr.''' (August 25, 1915 – August 15, 2011), known as '''Pap Dean''', was an [[United States|American]] [[cartoon]]ist who was employed from 1938 to 1979 as chief illustrator and editorial cartoonist<ref name=ddeath>{{cite web|url=http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20110818/NEWS01/108180346/Longtime-political-cartoonist-Pap-Dean-dies-age-95-Alexandria?odyssey=tab{{!}}topnews{{!}}text{{!}}FRONTPAGE|title=Longtime political cartoonist 'Pap' Dean dies at age of 95 in Alexandria|publisher=''The Alexandria Daily Town Talk''|date=August 18, 2011|accessdate=August 18, 2011; no longer on-line}}</ref> for ''The Shreveport Times'' in [[Shreveport]], [[Louisiana]].
An original inductee of the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame, Dean beginning in 1993 prepared a caricature for the exhibit of each honoree<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070415/COMMUNITIES/704120340|title=Notable People from Grant Parish|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=August 31, 2009; no longer on-line}}</ref> in the museum, which is located in a former [[railroad]] depot in downtown Winnfield.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.cityofwinnfield.com/museum.html|title=Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame|publisher=City of [[Winnfield, Louisiana|Winnfield]], Louisiana|accessdate=August 31, 2009}}</ref>
An original inductee of the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame, Dean beginning in 1993 prepared a caricature for the exhibit of each honoree<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070415/COMMUNITIES/704120340|title=Notable People from Grant Parish|publisher=''The Alexandria Town Talk''|accessdate=August 31, 2009; no longer on-line}}</ref> in the museum, which is located in a former [[railroad]] depot in downtown Winnfield.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.cityofwinnfield.com/museum.html|title=Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame|publisher=City of Winnfield, Louisiana|accessdate=August 31, 2009}}</ref>
==Background==
==Background==
==Cartoonist and author==
==Cartoonist and author==
After LSU, Dean enrolled in the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and then joined the staff of ''The Shreveport Times.'' He was married to the former Doris Moore and had three children. His tenure there was interrupted by three and one-half years in the [[United States Army]], beginning in 1942. He landed with an anti-aircraft battalion at [[Omaha Beach]] on [[D-Day]], received a battlefield commission, and was promoted ultimately to the rank of lieutenant colonel.<ref name=willis/>
Dean’s studio was filled with sketches and caricatures of other cartoonists, including [[Al Capp]], the creator of ''Li'l Abner.'' and William Henry "Bill" Mauldin (1921-2003), whose “Up Front” appeared in ''The Stars and Stripes'' military newspaper during the war. Jeff MacNelly, [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]],'' patterned his style after Mauldin and later honored Dean with a caricature of Dean himself.<ref name=willis/>
Dean’s studio was filled with sketches and caricatures of other cartoonists, including [[Al Capp]], the creator of ''Li'l Abner.'' and William Henry "Bill" Mauldin (1921-2003), whose “Up Front” appeared in ''The Stars and Stripes'' military newspaper during the war. Jeff MacNelly, [[Pulitzer Prize]] winner of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]],'' patterned his style after Mauldin and later honored Dean with a caricature of Dean himself.<ref name=willis/>