Frank O. King
Frank O. King (* 1883 in Cashton , Wisconsin , † June 24, 1969 in Winter Park, Florida ) was an American cartoonist, comic artist and author, who was best known for the comic strip Gasoline Alley .
Life
Born in Cashton, Wisconsin, King began his career as a cartoonist for the Minneapolis Times at the age of 18 . After moving to Chicago , he worked first for the Chicago American , then for the Chicago's Examiner and from 1910 finally for the Chicago Tribune . His front rows for the Sunday pages were Tough Teddy , The Boy Animal Trainer , Here Comes Motorcycle Mike, and Hi Hopper . His first actual comic was Bobby Make-Believe , which he drew from 1915.
King became known through the strip Gasoline Alley , which first appeared in 1918 and was published not only as a Sunday page, but also as a daily strip from Valentine's Day 1921, February 21, 1921 . On this strip, which continues to this day and made King a wealthy man, the characters aged along with their readers. King gave the Sunday page to Bill Perry in 1951, and the Daily strip to Dick Moores in 1959 . Both artists had previously assisted King.
King spent his old age in Florida, where he died in 1969.
literature
- Marcel Feige: The little comic dictionary . Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89602-544-9 , p. 427
- Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , pp. 110, 152
- Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexicon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , pp. 274-275
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | King, Frank O. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | King, Frank |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cartoonist, comic book artist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cashton , Wisconsin , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1969 |
| Place of death | Winter Park, Florida |