Wingate Chase Craig was an American writer-cartoonist who worked principally on comic strips and comic books.
17 Facts About Chase Craig
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Chase Craig moved to Hollywood in 1935, where he became an animator for Leon Schlesinger Productions and Walter Lantz Productions.
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Chase Craig left the animation field in 1939 and began working as a freelancer.
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Chase Craig drew several comic strips, including Hollywood Hams and Mortimer Snerd and Charlie McCarthy.
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Chase Craig teamed up with Fred Fox, and drew the Odd Bodkins comic strip for Esquire Features as well as writing and drawing for the first six weeks in 1942 the Bugs Bunny comic Sunday pages and the first Bugs Bunny comic book.
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Television and comics scripter Mark Evanier summarized several aspects of Craig's career: Chase was born in Texas and moved to Los Angeles in the 1930s to get into the animation business.
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Chase Craig was the editor who kept Carl Barks producing Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge stories, and Paul Murry doing Mickey Mouse and so many others.
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Chase Craig became the West Coast editor for the Western Publishing comics in 1950.
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Chase Craig recognized the genius of Carl Barks whose Scrooge McDuck, Junior Woodchucks, and other Disney duck characters have delighted generations of fans.
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For Dell's Disney titles, Chase Craig created and scripted such characters as the Li'l Bad Wolf, Br'er Rabbit, Little Bear Bongo and Jose Carioca.
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Chase Craig handled comic book adaptations of popular television shows like Gunsmoke as well as numerous feature films that were adapted into comic book versions.
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Chase Craig created a number of Gold Key's original characters, perhaps the most notable being, in February 1962, Magnus, Robot Fighter, 4000 AD He envisioned Magnus as "a sort of future Tarzan" and enlisted the artistic and story writing talents of Russ Manning for the new series which premiered in February 1963.
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Chase Craig created a number of other cartoon characters for Gold Key comics, including, in 1964, The Little Monsters, which ran more or less continuously until February, 1978.
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Chase Craig retired from Western Printing and Lithography in the summer of 1975, but shortly thereafter was hired by Hanna-Barbera to create and supervise the production of a Scooby-Doo comic strip and comic books; he briefly was a writer for several of Marvel Comics' other Hanna-Barbera titles.
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Once fully retired Chase Craig moved to Westlake Village, California, where he served as president of the Northshore Property Owners Association.
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In 1982, Chase Craig received the Inkpot Award for outstanding achievements in comic art from the San Diego Comic-Con.
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Chase Craig died December 2,2001, at Los Robles Regional Medical Center, following complications after a surgery caused by a fall.