1. Jim Scancarelli had served as an assistant to the latter for several years before taking over.
19 Facts About Jim Scancarelli
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When his family moved to Washington, DC, for his father's job, Jim Scancarelli became the target of bullies in school.
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Jim Scancarelli would act on occasion, and wrote and voiced episodes of The Yellowjacket, a regular five-minute drive-time radio segment on WBT-FM influenced by the Batman show.
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Jim Scancarelli had a successful career as a freelance magazine illustrator, and he did slide transparency art until computers made that job obsolete.
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Jim Scancarelli says his deep appreciation for comics was cultivated during childhood visits to his grandfather's house.
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Jim Scancarelli's grandfather read the strips to him and pointed out details in each panel.
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Jim Scancarelli spoke about EC Comics and his other early influences in a 1997 interview with Jeffrey Lindenblatt:.
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When Moores died in 1986, Jim Scancarelli succeeded him as creator.
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In 1988, Jim Scancarelli created a sequence wherein Walt Wallet made copies of the Wallet Family Tree.
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Jim Scancarelli takes the unusual approach of combining continuity storylines with daily gags.
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Jim Scancarelli is the strip's sole creator, as he explained to Lindenblatt:.
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Jim Scancarelli eschews the use of computers in his work, creating Gasoline Alley using the traditional India ink pen and brush techniques and materials of his predecessors on the strip.
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Jim Scancarelli had said he hoped to shepherd Gasoline Alley to its 100th anniversary, and he successfully reached and continued past that milestone.
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Jim Scancarelli is a well-known bluegrass fiddler and founder of the Kilocycle Kowboys.
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Jim Scancarelli was a prizewinner at the Old Fiddler's Convention, an event held annually in Galax, Virginia.
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Jim Scancarelli's HO scale Cliffside Railroad is a detailed tribute to the North Carolina railroad of the 1930s-40s.
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Jim Scancarelli received the 1988 National Cartoonists Society's Story Comic Strip Award.
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Since the "Newspaper Comic Strips " Category and the "Newspaper Comic Strips " Category were combined in 1989, Jim Scancarelli was the last winner of the separate story strip awards.
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In 2000, Jim Scancarelli brought attention to construction of the World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, by having the characters Skeezix and Nina laud the project in the strip.