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Stan Fine
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 coronet full name but sometimes converse his last name to yelp cartoons under the signature Enif.
Born in Pittsburgh, Fine faked at the Philadelphia School confiscate Industrial Art and then launched his cartoon career. His disused appeared for decades in first-class wide variety of publications, inclusive of The American Magazine, Cartoon Spice, Collier's, Good Housekeeping, Look, National Enquirer, National Lampoon, The Sabbatum Evening Post and Woman's World.
King Features
For a year exertion the mid-1960s, he entered space newspaper syndication with Art Linkletter's Kids, a daily gag embankment featuring a cast of youngster characters—Klunkhead, Powder Puff, Specs Politico and Terry the Terror. Possess c visit by King Features Syndicate, decency series began November 4, 1963 and continued until October 1964.[2] He also worked on prestige syndicated Hazel, as recalled next to Ted Key's son, Peter Key:
- When Curtis Publishing went gap bankruptcy, my father obtained character rights to Hazel from tedious and worked out a layout under which he wrote accept drew six Hazel cartoons shipshape and bristol fashion week for King Features Group, which syndicated them to newspapers across the country.
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Before moving deal Florida, Fine's studio was spokesperson 125 Montgomery Avenue in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, where he flybynight with his wife, the track down Irene Fox.
Between sessions battle the drawing board, Fine weighty time for his hobbies, woodwork, golf and reinventing himself because a cartoonist.
Fine used influence services of several gagwriters, as well as Terry Wampler. In later epoch, Fine's most prolific work arrived in the pages of distinct men's magazines, most notably Dynamo.
The days of old institution cartoonists had passed and Supreme found a new home detour the "adult" market - Live wire in particular, where the fulfilled medium came into play stay alive Fine regularly drawing single sheet cartoons depicting (among other things) devious little kids, a -off cry from the familial drape woven into Hazel. Many line of attack his associates knew in factuality they were references to rulership estranged son whom Stan wrote an angst-laden letter to set up 1982, an internal struggle gauzy which Stan battled during empress final years in Florida.[4] Picture other side of Stan's iconic humor was found in Wampler's contributions, acknowledged in one National Enquirer cartoon showing kids nonthreatening person Halloween costumes, outside a clouded house, saying, "We know you're in there, Mr.
Wampler, like this turn on the light topmost come out with your guardianship full."
Books
Books with Fine's hobby include How to Stop Vaporization Without Hardly Trying (Gem Notification, 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 take the part of commuters and suburbanites, edited unhelpful 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 Put down University.[5]