Warren Tufts
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| Born | Chester Warren Tufts December 12, 1925 Fresno, California |
| Died | July 6, 1982 (aged 56) Placerville, California |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, Writer, Artist |
Notable works | Casey Ruggles Lance |
Chester Warren Tufts[1] (December 12, 1925 – July 6, 1982),[2][3] best known as Warren Tufts, was an American comic strip and comic book artist-writer best known for his syndicated Western adventure strip Casey Ruggles, which ran from 1949 to 1954.
Comic strips
In 1949, Warren Tufts created the comic strip
As Casey Ruggles' popularity grew, Tufts received an offer from a major
Comic books
However, the job of not only writing and drawing but also traveling around the country from city to city to sell the strip proved daunting, and in 1960, Tufts left the comic strip field. He drew some comic books for
He also drew an adult comic book, Jack and the Beanstalk, and wrote and illustrated a serialized story for Sports Flying magazine.
Television
On TV, he lent his voice, lips and artistic talents to
He was killed in 1982, in the crash of an airplane of his own design that he was piloting.[3] He was living in El Dorado County, California, at the time.[2]
References
- ^ Tufts, Jay Franklin (1963). Tufts Family History: A True Account and History of Our Tufts Families, From and Before 1638-1963. Privately published. p. 117.
- ^ Social Security Number 564-20-2613, at the Social Security Death Indexvia GenealogyBank.com. Source gives death date only as "July 1982".
- ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. Gives death date as July 6, 1982. Archivedfrom the original on March 8, 2015.
- ^ a b Casey Ruggles at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on March 8, 2015.
- ^ The Lone Spaceman at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on March 8, 2015.
- ISBN 0-87754-030-6.
Further reading
- Yeo, Henry, Warren Tufts Retrospective, Western Wind (1980).
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