Bill Kresse

{{short description|American cartoonist}}

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William Joseph Kresse (June 17, 1933 - January 21, 2014){{cite web|title=William Joseph Kresse (1933-2014)|url=http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=William-Kresse&lc=1722&pid=169253069&mid=5828953|publisher=Dignity Memorials|accessdate=2014-01-24 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140203042747/http://obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=William-Kresse&lc=1722&pid=169253069&mid=5828953| archivedate= February 3, 2014 | url-status=live}} was an American cartoonist who drew the comic strip "Super" Duper, which was published in the New York Daily News in the 1960s and 1970s.{{cite news| url=http://cartoonician.com/bill-kresse-and-super-duper/| title=Bill Kresse and "Super" Duper| first=Tom| last=Heintjes| first2=Bob| last2=Buethe| work=Hogan's Alley| date=July 3, 2012| issue=15| accessdate=February 1, 2015| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412054624/http://cartoonician.com/bill-kresse-and-super-duper/| archivedate=April 12, 2013| url-status=dead}}

After graduating from New York City's High School of Art and Design, he began working for the animation studio Terrytoons, in New Rochelle, New York.[http://www.lambiek.net/artists/k/kresse_bill.htm Bill Kresse] at the Lambiek Comiclopedia. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120506183202/http://lambiek.net/artists/k/kresse_bill.htm Archived] from the original on May 6, 2012. He went on to design conveyor belt systems before obtaining a job in the art department of the news agency the Associated Press. He went on to become an illustrator and cartoonist at the New York Daily News, the New York Herald-Tribune and other newspapers. Kresse and Rolf Ahlsen created the comic strips "Super" Duper and Scratch, often signed under the joint credit Krahlsen.

Kresse received the National Cartoonists Society's 1974 Advertising and Illustration Award.{{cite web| url=http://www.reuben.org/awards/|title= NCS Awards > Advertising Illustration | publisher=National Cartoonists Society | accessdate= February 1, 2015 | archivedate= July 26, 2014| archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140726224752/http://www.reuben.org/awards/| url-status=live}}

Kresse was married to Lorraine Kresse, who has been board president of their cooperative apartment house, Terrace View,{{cite news | url =http://www.cooperator.com/articles/1333/1/Getting-Good-Help/Page1.html | title=Getting Good Help: Recruiting (and Keeping) New Board Members| first=Domini | last=Hedderman| work=The Cooperator |date= October 2006| accessdate= February 1, 2015 | archivedate= July 1, 2014| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20140701142347/http://cooperator.com/articles/1333/1/Getting-Good-Help/Page1.html| url-status=live}} in the Jackson Heights neighborhood of the New York City borough of Queens, and a member of Queens Community Board 3.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}}

Kresse died on January 21, 2014, at New York Hospital Queens, in the Flushing neighborhood.