San Francisco Chronicle

…sportswriter and cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle (1904–05) and later for the San Francisco Bulletin (1905–07). He went east and joined the New York Evening Mail (1907–21), where he created three long-running comic strips. He also created the cartoon character Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, an inventor of contraptions that…

…for two years for the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1997 Matthews began hosting his own talk show, Hardball, in which he interviewed public officials and political pundits. During the course of the show, Matthews routinely played “hardball” with his guests by entering into debate or pursuing a hard line of…