Tom K. Ryan(1926-2019)
- Writer
Ryan was born June 6, 1926, in Anderson, Indiana, and raised in Muncie.
His life almost took a less-artistic direction: He received basketball
scholarship offers from two colleges. Instead, he attended Notre Dame
University and the University of Cincinnati before dropping out of
school. He later learned art fundamentals through a correspondence
course and for years made his living as a successful free-lance
commercial artist. The National Cartoonists Society twice selected Ryan
as one of the year's top three humor artists. During the past three
decades, Ryan has become an expert on the settling of the American
West, having researched the subject in an exhaustive study of the Old
West, including extensive travel to those parts. In 1982, he settled in
Florida, with his wife, Anne. They have four children and six
grandchildren.