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Hank Ketcham

Hank (Henry King) Ketcham (1920 - 2001) was active/lived in California / Switzerland.  Hank Ketcham is known for Cartoons, illustration.

The following is from the artist's obituary, The New York Times, June 2, 2001.

"Hank Ketcham, Father of Dennis the Menace, Dies at 81"
By LAWRENCE VAN GELDER

Hank Ketcham, who fathered the cartoon character Dennis the Menace, the freckle-face scamp in droopy overalls whose mischievous childhood has endured for 50 years and amused a worldwide audience, died yesterday at his home in Carmel, Calif.  He was 81.

In March a half-century of the publication of Dennis the Menace cartoons was celebrated, with the panel running in 1,000 newspapers in 48 countries and 19 languages. "Mischief just seems to follow wherever Dennis appears, but it is the product of good intentions, misdirected helpfulness, good-hearted generosity and, possibly, an overactive thyroid," Mr. Ketcham wrote in his 1990 autobiography, "The Merchant of Dennis the Menace."

"But what a dull world it would be without any Dennises in it! Peaceful, maybe but dull." Only yest   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9651 characters.]  Artist bio

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