Oregon
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before settling in
Vancouver, Washington
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. He was a neighbor of
Basil Wolverton
Basil Wolverton (July 9, 1909 – December 31, 1978) at the
United States Marine Corps
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, Fagaly returned to Vancouver in the mid-1930s and founded Columbia Photoengraving in order to get the local newspaper, ''
The Columbian
''The Columbian'' is a daily newspaper serving the Vancouver, Washington, and Clark County, Washington area. The paper was published for its first decade (1890–1900) as a four-page daily that was meant as a counterweight to the local Republi ...
'', to publish his cartoons. He offered to supply the newspaper engraving plates for free if the newspaper would pay him for the cartoons. Since the cost of photoengraving was much more than the going rate for artwork, the newspaper agreed, and Mr. Fagaly became the staff cartoonist for ''The Columbian''. In 1935, he created a comic strip, ''Skip Logan'', for the Thompson Service in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In 1943 Fagaly was a staff artist at
MLJ Comics
Archie Comic Publications, Inc., is an American comic book publisher headquartered in Pelham, New York.Archie Comics) when he created the Superman parody Super Duck. He went on to be the lead artist on ''Super Duck Comics'', which debuted in 1944; Fagaly was a main contributor to the title at least through the early 1950s. Fagaly was also the main contributor to ''Fauntleroy Comics'', a spin-off from ''Super Duck'' that published three annual issues from 1950 to 1952.
In 1944, while he was living in Nantucket, Massachusetts, Fagaly and MLJ managing editor
Harry Shorten
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Jimmy Hatlo
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's ''
They'll Do It Every Time
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'')Markstein, Don "THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW!," ''Toonpedia''. Accessed October 22, 2018. and syndicated by
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
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Frank Borth
Frank M. Borth III (April 1, 1918 – August 9, 2009) was an American comic book artist.
Biography
Borth was born and raised in Cleveland, eventually graduating in 1940 from the Cleveland School of Art, where he majored in illustration."New Sea A ...