12 Facts About Coulton Waugh

Frederick Coulton Waugh was a cartoonist, painter, teacher and author, best known for his illustration work on the comic strip Dickie Dare and his book The Comics, the first major study of the field.

Coulton Waugh's father was the marine artist Frederick Judd Waugh, and his grandfather was the Philadelphia portrait painter Samuel Waugh.

Coulton Waugh's paintings were displayed at New York's Hudson Walker Gallery, and he was known for his pictorial maps and hand-colored lithographs.

Coulton Waugh's map of California was a collaboration with his wife Odin Burvik.

When Caniff left in 1934 to do Terry and the Pirates, Coulton Waugh began drawing Dickie Dare in the middle of a story.

Between his stints on Dickie Dare, Coulton Waugh created his own short-lived but notable strip, Hank, which began 30 April 1945 in the New York newspaper PM.

The uniqueness of Hank continued below its surface, as Coulton Waugh sought to raise questions about the reasons for war, and how it might be prevented by the next generation.

Coulton Waugh discontinued it at the very end of 1945 due to eyestrain.

Coulton Waugh wrote a series of instructional books, including two on painting with palette knives, and he was the editor during the 1940s and 1950s of the textbooks used in the home study course of Art Instruction, Inc His other books include Space Answer Book and Fish and Underwater Life.

Coulton Waugh was a teacher at Orange County Community College in Newburgh, and was curator of the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York.

Coulton Waugh's works are held in the collections of museums in Ohio, New York and Iowa.

Coulton Waugh's papers are held at the Syracuse University and the Archives of American Art.