Jack Elrod (March 29, 1924 – February 16, 2016) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip '' Mark Trail''. The creator of ''Mark Trail'', Ed Dodd, began the strip in 1946. Elrod began working on the strip as an artist in 1950, then in 1978 when Dodd's eyesight failed he turned the strip over to Jack Elrod, who continued to draw it under both their names. Elrod lived his whole life in Georgia and worked for

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for 64 years before dying in his sleep at age 91 in his home near Atlanta on February 3, 2016. Prior to becoming a cartoonist, Elrod served in the

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on board the USS ''Teton'' as a meteorologist during

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1924 births 2016 deaths American comic strip cartoonists United States Navy personnel of World War II People from Gainesville, Georgia Artists from Georgia (U.S. state) {{US-cartoonist-stub