Death
Fisher died on 15 December 2003 at his home after completing a Christmas cartoon for the Arkansas Times.
His wife died in 1983, but Fisher continued to hide her nickname in his cartoons as a tribute.
Fisher's most famous statewide cartoon was a drawing of Governor Orval Faubus addressing a session of the Arkansas legislature where everyone present, even the mice and statues, had the face of Orval Faubus.
His most famous nationally reprinted cartoon was on the occasion of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
His work has been published in several anthologies and he has been acclaimed as one of the great cartoonists of the 20th century.
Fisher was buried at Beebe Cemetery in Beebe, Arkansas.
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