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Mickey Bach

Cartoonist/artist, Oct. 1941. “Mickey Bach (1909-1994).

Mickey was an artist who started a very popular cartoon strip called Word-a-day in the 1940’s that was published by the Chicago Sun Times Syndicate. Mickey was an interesting character, a star athlete, a one-time quarterback at the University of Wisconsin, and a military man. He eventually went to work for Richfield Oil.”

A “cartoon” by Bach repro. on the same page says he graduated from Wisconsin in 1933, had six years of newspaper experience as an artist and writer, “graduated” from WWII service in December 1945 with rank of Captain, and invented the “Word-a-Day” cartoons, per blueheronblast.com.

Repro: “Wild Bill Weaver” and some cartoons, Dispatch, Oct. 17, 1941, p. 8.Nancy Dustin Wall Moure, ATASCADERO (including CAMP ROBERTS, CARRIZA/O PLAINS, PASO ROBLES, SAN MIGUEL, SANTA MARGARITA, SHANDON, TEMPLETON, ETC.), ART AND PHOTOGRAPHY BEFORE 1960 (Publications in [Southern] California Art, vol. 13, no. III), Cambria, Ca.: Dustin Publications, 2017

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