1. James Cecil Hatlo, better known as Jimmy Hatlo, was an American cartoonist who in 1929 created the long-running comic strip and gag panel They'll Do It Every Time, which he wrote and drew until his death in 1963.
14 Facts About Jimmy Hatlo
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Jimmy Hatlo understood that just about everyone, on some slightly-below-the-surface level, yearned to be celebrated from coast to coast, if only for a day.
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Jimmy Hatlo was born in East Providence, Rhode Island, on September 1,1897.
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Jimmy Hatlo's father, James M Hatlow, a printer, was an immigrant from the Orkney Islands of Scotland.
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Jimmy Hatlo shrank the "w" into a small apostrophe in the signature but otherwise dropped it entirely.
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Jimmy Hatlo's break came when a shipment of panels from syndicated cartoonist Tad Dorgan failed to arrive in the mail.
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Jimmy Hatlo was pressed into service to create something to fill the space.
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At their peak, Jimmy Hatlo's cartoons appeared in over 400 newspapers worldwide.
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Jimmy Hatlo's popularity was at its highest in the early 1950s.
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Jimmy Hatlo was a lifelong smoker, who once appeared in magazine and newspaper ads for Lucky Strike cigarettes, his favorite brand.
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Jimmy Hatlo was troubled in his later years by atherosclerosis.
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In late November 1963, Jimmy Hatlo was hospitalized for a kidney condition.
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Jimmy Hatlo died of a stroke early on December 1,1963, at the age of 66.
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Jimmy Hatlo was recognized for his work with the National Cartoonists Society's Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1957 and 1959.