Bill Garner was born on Aug. 7, 1935, in Temple, Texas, and attended the Texas School of Fine Arts from 1947 to 1954 and the University of Texas at Austin from 1954 to 1955. It was then that he began his art career with an Austin advertising agency as he worked his way through college.
Garner served in the U.S. Armed forces from 1955 until 1962, when he was assigned to the Pacific Stars and Stripes as an illustrator and cartoonist. In 1963 he went to work for The Washington Star as a staff layout artist and part-time editorial cartoonist. He remained there until 1976, when he joined The Commercial Appeal in Memphis, Tenn., as an editorial cartoonist.
In 1981, Garner won the National Headliner Award for his editorial cartoons. He then joined The Washington Times early in 1983, less than a year after the newspaper began publication, where he continued his work for 26 years until 2009. Garner has won numerous awards, including the National Newspaper Association Award in 1992 for Best Original Cartoon.
Garner's paintings have been exhibited at the Fisher Gallery and the Mickelson Gallery in Washington D.C. and the Third Millennium in Annapolis, Md. He is a member of the Brooks Memorial Art Gallery in Memphis.
Garner currently resides in Annapolis with his wife, Patricia, and their Bichon, Daisy.
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