FRANK KING (CARTOONIST)

'Frank King' (April 9, 1883 – June 24, 1969) was an American cartoonist most famous for the comic strip ''Gasoline Alley''.

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Biography

Awards

References

External links

Biography

Born in Cashton, Wisconsin, King grew up in Tomah, Wisconsin and attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.^[1]

He broke into professional cartoonist at the ''Minneapolis Times'' in 1901 and moved through the decade to ''Chicago's American'', the ''Chicago Examiner'', and finally, in 1910, the ''Chicago Tribune''.^[2]
King created several recurring strips, including ''Tough Teddy'', ''The Boy Animal Trainer'', ''Here Comes Motorcycle Mike'', ''Hi Hopper'', and, his first successful full-page comic, ''Bobby Make-Believe'' in 1915. King produced a black and white cartoon page, since 1914 named ''The Rectangle'', featuring a variety of cartoons and serial features. ''Gasoline Alley'' emerged from a corner of this page, first titled ''Sunday morning in Gasoline Alley'', in 1918. A great success, the strip would become the first to portray the aging process of characters, and be regarded as the strip became comics' first soap opera. Although King retired from drawing ''Gasoline Alley'' in 1951, the strip is still running as of 2007.^[3]
King was recognized for his work with the National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award in 1957, and their Reuben Award in 1958, both for ''Gasoline Alley''. He died in 1969 in Winter Park, Florida.

Awards

★ 1949: National Cartoonist Society Silver T-Square Award ^[4]

★ 1957: National Cartoonist Society Humor Comic Strip Award ^[5]

★ 1958: Reuben Award ^[6]

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External links

★ Frank King biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia