Frank Fogarty

Frank Fogarty
Frank Fogarty
Born	1887; Special Features Award, 1973

Frank Fogarty (1887-1978)^[1] was an American comic strip artist, primarily active in the 1930s and 1940s.

A native New Yorker, as a teenager Fogarty worked as a copy boy at the New York World.^[2] Editors there pooled their money to send him to the Art Students League of New York,^[1] where fellow students included George Bellows and Rockwell Kent.^[2] After working for the American Press Association, Fogarty went on to be art director for The New York Sun.^[1]

Originally specializing in sports and political cartoons, Fogarty illustrated the

Mr. and Mrs. from 1930 to 1947,^[3] both of which were distributed by the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate

In the period 1951 to 1954 he worked in the

Late in life, Fogarty specialized in creating "illuminated scrolls" (in the manner of medieval

Special Features Award in 1973.^[2] He also won the National Cartoonist Society Silver T-Square Extraordinary Service Award in 1971.^[5]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Fogarty bio, Lambiek's Comiclopedia. Accessed Dec. 23, 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c O'Hearn, Bradford W. "Former cartoonist, now in his 80s, daily produces medieval masterpieces," Biloxi Daily Herald (January 28, 1974), p. 12.
^ Markstein, Don. "Mr. and Mrs.," Toonpedia. Accessed Dec. 23, 2017.
^ Fogarty entry, Who's Who of American Comic Books, 1928–1999. Accessed Dec. 12, 2018.
^ Fogarty entry, Grand Comics Database. Accessed Dec. 12, 2018.