Henry Boltinoff

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Henry Boltinoff
National Periodicals humor features
AwardsNational Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Book Award, 1970
NCS Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award, 1981
Inkpot Award, 2001[1]

Henry Boltinoff (February 19, 1914 – April 26, 2001)[2][3] was an American cartoonist who worked for both comic strips and comic books. He was a prolific cartoonist and drew many of the humor and filler strips that appeared in National Periodical comics from the 1940s through the 1960s.

Career

Comic books

Born in New York City, Boltinoff created numerous humor features for DC Comics, where his brother Murray Boltinoff was an editor.[4] His most prominent creation for DC was "Dover & Clover" which debuted in More Fun Comics #94 (Nov. 1943).[5][6] Boltinoff's other features include "Abdul the Fire Eater", "Bebe", "Billy", "Buck Skinner", "Cap's Hobby Center", "Casey the Cop", "Charlie Cannonball", "Chief Hot Foot", "Cora the Carhop", "Dexter", "Doctor Floogle", "Doctor Rocket", "Elvin", "Freddie the Frogman", "Hamid the Hypnotist", "Homer", "Honey in Hollywood", "Hy the Spy", "Hy Wire", "Jail Jests", "Jerry the Jitterbug", "King Kale", "Lefty Looie", "Lem 'n' Lime", "Lionel and His Lions", "Little Pete", "Little Pocahontas", "Lucky", "The Magic Genie", "Moolah the Mystic", "No-Chance Charley", "Ollie", "On the Set", "Peg", "Peter Puptent", "Prehistoric Fun", "Professor Eureka", "Sagebrush Sam", "Shorty", "Stan", "Super-Turtle",[7] "Tricksy the World's Greatest Stunt Man" and "Warden Willis". These were usually lettered by Gaspar Saladino. Boltinoff's final creation for DC was "Cap's Hobby Hints".[3] In 1969, he became the writer of the Date with Debbi and Swing with Scooter titles.[6]

Magazine cartoons

Boltinoff started doing magazine cartoons in the early forties. He contributed to all of the mid range magazines, such as Look,

Boy's Life and many of the low rent Humorama
titles.

Comic strips and panels

Boltinoff was a regular contributor to This and That (a daily cartoon panel from the

Humor Comic Book Award for 1970.[12][13]

Hocus-Focus may have been Boltinoff's best-known work. The King Features Syndicate feature, which was started c. 1965 by Harold Kaufmann,[14] includes two similar panels with six differences between them. It continues to run in over 300 newspapers.

Bibliography

DC Comics

References

  1. ^ Inkpot Award
  2. ^ Miller, John Jackson (June 10, 2005). "Comics Industry Birthdays". Comics Buyer's Guide. Iola, Wisconsin. Archived from the original on February 18, 2011.
  3. ^ a b "Henry Boltinoff". Lambiek Comiclopedia. April 16, 2016. Archived from the original on May 5, 2012.
  4. ^ Klein, Todd (July 9, 2013). "The DC Comics Offices 1930s-1950s Part 2". KleinLetters.com. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved September 20, 2013.
  5. ^ Markstein, Don (2010). "Dover and Clover". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on April 22, 2016. Dover & Clover are pretty obscure, but they still ranked as the most prominent characters cartoonist Henry Boltinoff ever created for DC Comics...They made their debut in DC's More Fun Comics #94 (November 1943).
  6. ^ a b Henry Boltinoff at the Grand Comics Database
  7. ISBN 978-1893905610
    .
  8. ^ a b c "The Fabuleous Fifties". allthingsger.blogspot.com. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
  9. ^ Apeldoorn, Ger (November 28, 2020). "The Fabuleous Fifties: Here Come The Gags". The Fabuleous Fifties. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
  10. ^ Apeldoorn, Ger (April 13, 2015). "The Fabuleous Fifties: Boltinoff For Ya". The Fabuleous Fifties. Retrieved December 6, 2020.
  11. ^ Markstein, Don (2010). "Henry Boltinoff". Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on October 12, 2014. When he died (April 26, 2001), he left behind more than a year's worth of unpublished Hocus Focus cartoons.
  12. ISBN 978-0970007704
    .
  13. ^ "Division Awards Comic Books". National Cartoonists Society. 2013. Archived from the original on December 16, 2013. Retrieved December 16, 2013.
  14. ^ "Hal Kaufman, Longtime Feature Editor and Contributor, Dead at 94". King Features Syndicate. January 21, 2014. Archived from the original on June 3, 2019. Retrieved December 29, 2019.

External links

Preceded by
Doug Crane
 Swing with Scooter writer
1969–1970 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
n/a
 Date with Debbi writer
1969–1971 		Succeeded by
John Albano
Preceded by
National Cartoonists Society Division Awards Newspaper Panel Award
recipient
1981 		Succeeded by
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