Bill Holman (cartoonist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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cartoonist
Date of Birth: 22-Mar-1903
Place of Birth: Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States
Date of Death: 27-Feb-1987
Profession: comics artist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Bill Holman (cartoonist)
- Bill Holman (March 22, 1903 – February 27, 1987) was an American cartoonist who drew the classic comic strip Smokey Stover from 1935 until he retired in 1973.
- Distributed through the Chicago Tribune syndicate, it had the longest run of any strip in the screwball genre.
- Holman signed some strips with the pseudonym Scat H.
- He once described himself as "always inclined to humor and acting silly."Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Holman lived as a child in Nappanee, Indiana, a town where six successful cartoonists lived when they were children.
- Holman's father died when he was young.
- He began drawing when he was 12 years old. While working part-time at Nappanee's local five and dime store, he developed an interest in art as a career and sent away for the Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning correspondence course.
- Dropping out of high school, he was 15 when he moved with his mother to Chicago.
- There he took night courses at the Academy of Fine Arts and learned more about cartooning from Carl Ed. In 1920, he held a job as a copy boy at the Chicago Tribune for six dollars a week.
- The position gave him the opportunity to hang out with the top Tribune cartoonists, including Sidney Smith, Harold Gray and E.
- C.
- Segar. In Cleveland, he began working for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, which syndicated his short-lived animal strip, Billville Birds (1922).
- After three years with NEA and Scripps-Howard, he headed for New York, where he was a Herald Tribune staff artist and drew the child strip G.
- Whizz Jr.
- for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate.
- He scored a success when he headed in a new direction, submitting his cartoons to a variety of different magazines, including Liberty, Redbook, Collier's and Life.
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