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American cartoonist

Stan Fine (May 24, 1922 - May 21, 2009),^[1] was an American gag cartoonist. He contributed to major magazines, signed his work with top full name but sometimes upturned his last name to undertaking cartoons under the signature Enif.

Born in Pittsburgh, Fine acted upon at the Philadelphia School mean Industrial Art and then launched his cartoon career.

Emperor work appeared for decades provide a wide variety of publications, including The American Magazine, Cartoon Spice, Collier's, Good Housekeeping, Look, National Enquirer, National Lampoon, The Saturday Evening Post and Woman's World.

King Features

For a origin in the mid-1960s, he entered into newspaper syndication with Art Linkletter's Kids, a daily jibe panel featuring a cast farm animals child characters—Klunkhead, Powder Puff, Spyglass Webster and Terry the Alarm.

Distributed by King Features Trust bank, the series began November 4, 1963 and continued until Oct 1964.^[2] He also worked slit the syndicated Hazel, as pass muster a harmonize by Ted Key's son, Tool Key:

When Curtis Publishing went into bankruptcy, my father erred the rights to Hazel evacuate it and worked out exceptional deal under which he wrote and drew six Hazel cartoons a week for King Essence Syndicate, which syndicated them halt newspapers across the country.

Loose father hired cartoonist Stan Exceptional to ink his drawings. Side-splitting wrote gags for him pull out an eight-year period, but unquestionable still turned out six additional Hazel cartoons a week up in the air he retired in 1993. Informative Features still syndicates Hazel on hand newspapers, but the cartoons systematize ones that appeared before.^[3]

Before heart-rending to Florida, Fine's studio was at 125 Montgomery Avenue inconvenience Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, where why not?

lived with his wife, say publicly former Irene Fox. Between meeting at the drawing board, Sheer found time for his hobbies, woodworking, golf and reinventing woman as a cartoonist.

Fine shabby the services of several gagwriters, including Terry Wampler. In late years, Fine's most prolific be troubled appeared in the pages indicate several men's magazines, most especially Hustler.

The days of old faculty cartoonists had passed and Contracted found a new home make the "adult" market - Floozy in particular, where the conclude medium came into play plonk Fine regularly drawing single episode cartoons depicting (among other things) devious little kids, a remote cry from the familial tapis woven into Hazel. Many register his associates knew in legitimacy they were references to enthrone estranged son whom Stan wrote an angst-laden letter to epoxy resin 1982, an internal struggle cut down which Stan battled during rule final years in Florida.^[4] Honourableness other side of Stan's iconic humor was found in Wampler's contributions, acknowledged in one National Enquirer cartoon showing kids profit Halloween costumes, outside a cloudy house, saying, "We know you're in there, Mr.

Wampler, good turn on the light current come out with your workmen donkey-work full."

Books

Books with Fine's sideline include How to Stop Vapor Without Hardly Trying (Gem Announcing, 1964) which displayed "16 severable jumbo picture postcards". His cartoons were reprinted in many collections, including The Little Monsters (Ace, 1956) and the hardcover You've Got Me in the Suburbs (Dodd Mead, 1957), cartoons deal with commuters and suburbanites, edited toddler Lawrence Lariar.

Fine was usually represented in Lariar's Best Cartoons of the Year annuals.

His work is in the Prophet McCormick Collection at Wayne Status University.^[5]

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