Richard Q. Yardley began his career as an artist-retoucher in the news department at the Baltimore Evening Sun in 1923. From 1934, he drew local news and commentary cartoons for the Morning Sun. In 1949 he became the Sun’s editorial cartoonist after Edmund Duffy’s retirement. Duffy later described Yardley's work as "truly original." From 1961 until 1965 Yardley also drew the daily comic strip panel, Our Ancestors which was syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. In addition to these works, his cartoons appeared in the New Yorker and the Reporter. Yardley was a member of the National Cartoonists Society and the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists. Yardley retired in 1972.
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