Vincent Fago

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Vincent Fago
BornVincenzo Francisco Gennaro Di Fago
(1914-11-28)November 28, 1914
Yonkers, New York, U.S.
DiedJune 13, 2002(2002-06-13) (aged 87)
Bethel, Vermont, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer, Artist, Editor
Notable works
Timely Comics
Spouse(s)D'Ann Calhoun (m. 1941)
Children3

Vincenzo Francisco Gennaro Di Fago

Golden Age predecessor of Marvel Comics, during editor Stan Lee's World War II
service.

Fago headed the Timely animator bullpen, which was largely separate from the

Sub-Mariner and Captain America. This group, which featured such movie tie-in and original talking animal comics as Terrytoons Comics, Mighty Mouse and Animated Funny Comic-Tunes, included Ernie Hart, David Gantz, Chad Grothkopf, George Klein, Pauline Loth, Jim Mooney, Kin Platt, Mike Sekowsky, Moss Worthman (a.k.a. Moe Worth) and future Mad cartoonists Dave Berg and Al Jaffee
.

Later in his career, Fago oversaw Pendulum Press' Now Age Books line of comic book adaptations of literary classics.

Biography

Early career

Ziggy Pig and Silly Seal in Animated Funny Comic-Tunes (formerly Funny Tunes), one of Fago's Timely Comics titles

Fago was born in 1914 in

animated features Mr. Bug Goes to Town and Gulliver's Travels.[1]

After the

Golden Press.[5]

In 1948, he took over the syndicated Sunday comic strip Peter Rabbit (based not on the Beatrix Potter books but on a character from the Thornton Burgess series that began with The Adventures of Peter Cottontail), continuing with that strip until it was cancelled in 1957.[6]

Later career

For the entire decade of the 1970s, Fago worked under a ten-year contract for

Filipino comics artists.[9] In 1970, Fago and his wife traveled to the Philippines and, with Redondo as their guide, found many artists who would illustrate most of the hundred or more titles Pendulum eventually produced.[9]

During this period, Fago also collaborated with Vermont-based musician Julie Albright on The Rabbit Man Music Books, a series designed to teach children music theory.[10]

Other books include Zhin or Zhen (Charles Tuttle Publishing, 1972).[11]

Personal life and family

For most of his adult life Fago and his wife, D'Ann Calhoun, whom he married in 1941, lived in a rural section of

Vermont Department of Education).[12] They had two children, son John and daughter, Celie.[12] Fago spent his final years in Bethel[13] with his wife before dying of cancer at age 87.[5]

Fago's brother Al Fago was also a cartoonist who created the Charlton Comics character Atomic Mouse.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "I Let People Do Their Jobs!': A Conversation with Vince Fago—Artist, writer, and Third Editor-in-Chief of Timely/Marvel Comics". Alter Ego. Vol. 3, no. 11. TwoMorrows Publishing. November 2001. Archived from the original on June 23, 2009.
  2. FamilySearch.org
    . Retrieved on January 8, 2016.
  3. ^ Cronin, Brian (November 14, 2018). "Who Was Marvel's Only Other Editor-in-Chief During Stan Lee's Tenure?". Comic Book Resources. Retrieved November 14, 2018.
  4. ^ Newsweek (20 September 1948).
  5. ^ a b c "Vincent Fago". The Herald of Randolph. Randolph, Vermont. June 20, 2002. Archived from the original on August 7, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
  6. ^ Markstein, Don. "Peter Rabbit," Don Markstein's Toonpedia. Accessed Dec. 6, 2017.
  7. ^ Kleefeld, Sean (May 16, 2008). "Vince Fago Post Script". KleefeldOnComics.com. Archived from the original on January 10, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
  8. ^ Inge, M. Thomas. "Comics," The Mark Twain Encyclopedia. Ed. J. R. LeMaster and James D. Wilson. (New York: Garland, 1993), pp. 168–171.
  9. ^ a b c Fago, Vincent. "Nestor Redondo and the Pendulum Classics," in Arthur Conan Doyle: Rosebud Graphic Classics (Eureka Productions, 2002), pp. 4–6.
  10. ^ "About Us". Music Educators' Marketplace. Archived from the original on July 2, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2015. Additional on August 7, 2015.
  11. ^ Zhin or Zhen (a book of whim or when). Biblio.com. 1972. Archived from the original on February 15, 2015. Retrieved August 7, 2015.
  12. ^ a b c "D'Ann Calhoun Fago: 70 Yrs. of Art". The Herald of Randolph. Randolph, Vermont. September 30, 2010. Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Retrieved January 30, 2014.
  13. ^ Arndt, Richard J. "A 2005 Interview with Steve Bissette about Bizarre Adventures!" Enjolrasworld.com: Marvel’s Black & White Horror Magazines Checklist. Accessed May 8, 2013.

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1942–1945 		Succeeded by
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