(14) individual cartoons - (13) are unframed (20 x 15 in.) and (1) is framed (DOA 13.5 x 15.25 in.). The dates range from September 12, 1978 to November 29, 1983. Subjects tackled include the weather, AT&T, Charlotte-Mecklenburg city government, education, NC Justice Department, Christmas, the Equal Rights Amendment, the Energy Crisis, Social Security and Anti-Nuclear Protests. Each work is ink on illustration board.

Payne studied illustration at Syracuse University in New York. During World War II, he served with the crew of a B-24 weather scouter. After the war, he worked as a free-lance artist, and also drove a milk wagon. He went to work for the Charlotte Observer starting in 1958. A year later, he moved to Birmingham, to work for the Birmingham News, but returned to Charlotte a year later. He won the 1967 Sigma Delta Chi award for cartooning, and soon there after won Pulitzer prize for cartooning in 1968. In 1971, he left the Observer to work for WSOC-TV, but returned again to the Observer in 1978. Over the course of his career, Payne traveled to the White House on more than one occasion to meet with presidents Nixon and Ford. He also received several notes and letters from these and other political figures, complimenting him on his artistic work in portraying them in the media. A collection of his cartoons for the Charlotte Observer are housed at the J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections, UNC Charlotte. (information from the library's website)

$500 - 1,000