Farewell, Gill Fox
I've just learned that Gilbert T. "Gill" Fox, another of the Golden Age comics people and a Pulitzer Prize-nominated cartoonist, died back on May 15th. Fox, 88, worked in the comics industry alongside Jack Cole and Will Eisner, adding his talents to many comics, including Plastic Man. In his time he was penciler, inker and editor for Quality Comics from the late 1930s through the 40s, also working on Eisner's Spirit strip.
Later he went onto both teaching and freelance illustration, where one of his creations was the winking chef seen here, which has become a pizza industry standard. He is also credited with working on a wide range of animations, ranging from Betty Boop to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He was reportedly proudest of his political cartoons, which appeared in the Fairfield Citizen and the Connecticut Post.
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