Remembering Michael J. Pollard, Fred Cox, Gahan Wilson, Jake Burton Carpenter

Michael J. Pollard was the pie-faced actor best known for his Academy Award nominated role as C.W. Moss, the fictional member of the Bonnie and Clyde gang in the classic 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. Fred Cox was the longtime placekicker for the Minnesota Vikings, and he also invented the NERF football, one of America’s favorite toys. Gahan Wilson was a cartoonist for a number of publications including Playboy and The New Yorker. His cartoons are known for their morbid subjects and macabre drawings. Jake Burton Carpenter was the inventor of the snowboard and was responsible in the main for snowboarding becoming an Olympic sport.