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Tick, Tack and Toe, 1945

My thanks to Kip Williams for providing the illustration and to Steve Rowe for some of the information below.

Photo 1. This page is from a Tick, Tack and Toe story that Al drew in June of 1945, referred to in his records as The Picnic. Al only did the pencil art and someone else went over it in india ink. The story was done for Jason Comic Art, a company which supplied camera-ready comic book artwork to various comic book publishers. In the period after World War II, Al dabbled in comic book work. He did 5 pages for Charles Biro (a former Fleischer employee). Three of those pages were for a strip called Drabby and Droopy and 2 pages were gags. For Leon Jason, he did seven stories with Tick, Tack and Toe from June through December 1945. He only did the pencilled art and was paid $12 a page for his work. The published strips don't have individual titles, but Al's records refer to them as The Milky Way, The Picnic, The Zoo, Fun at Home, Abusement Park, The Soda Fountain, and Montague Mouse. These stories appeared in a comic book called Frisky Fables, published by Novelty Press. According to Steve Rowe, other Famous Studios employees such as Marty Taras, Larry Silverman and Al Pross also did work for Jason Comic Art. In December of 1947, Al pencilled a 5 page Felix the Cat story for his old boss Otto Messmer. His records refer to the story as Middle Age - Ancient China. In October of 1947, he pencilled a 3 page Herman and Sherman story for Otto Messmer, though he may have subcontracted the work through Tom Johnson. There's no story title associated with this. Al once told me that he ghosted a Felix the Cat Sunday page for Otto Messmer, but he didn't mention when this occurred. Most likely, it was during Al's time at the Sullivan Studio (1925-1929). One source claims that Al worked on a comic strip called All the Comforts of Home. I know nothing about this strip. If anyone knows what years it appeared and who the credited artist was, I'd appreciate knowing. I'm assuming that Al ghosted the strip, but he may have been the credited artist.

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