Nationality American Area(s) Artist | Name Al Kilgore | |
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Born Alfred R. Kilgore
December 19, 1927
Newark, New Jersey, USA ( 1927-12-19 ) Awards National Cartoonists Society – Special Features Award
1983 Elvis the Paper Doll Book Died August 15, 1983, New York, United States Education Andrew Jackson High School | ||
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Alfred R. Kilgore (December 19, 1927 - August 15, 1983), who signed his work Al Kilgore, was an American artist who worked as a cartoonist and filmmaker.
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- Behind the music al mykal kilgore disaster by drew gasparini
- Behind the music al mykal kilgore after hours by carner gregor
- Comic strips and comic books
- Films
- Awards
- References
Born in Newark, New Jersey, Kilgore attended Andrew Jackson High School where he played basketball with a young Bob Cousy. He also met Dolores Preusch at this time, and the couple married in 1958. During World War II, he served in the Fifth Air Force. After the war, he entered into art studies, graduating from the Art Career School in 1951.
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Comic strips and comic books
He was an artist on the Bullwinkle comic strip for the Bell-McClure Syndicate between 1962 and 1967. He also drew the Dell, Gold Key, Whitman, and Charlton comic books of Rocky and Bullwinkle and related characters. In 1969, he did a syndicated puzzle feature, TV Star Screen.
Films
He appeared as an actor in Louis McMahon's serial parody Captain Celluloid vs. the Film Pirates. This four-part, semi-professional production paid homage to Republic Pictures and its adventure serials, while kidding the vintage film subculture of the 1960s. He produced and scripted The World of Hans Christian Andersen (1971) which he co-directed with Chuck McCann.
He was a founding member of the Laurel and Hardy appreciation society, The Sons of the Desert, and drew the organization's crest. His caricatures of Laurel and Hardy were used in John McCabe's biography, Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy (1962).
Kilgore and his wife Dolores lived in Long Island's Queens Village. He died in New York in 1983 from an embolism.
Awards
He was awarded the National Cartoonists Society Silver T-Square in 1976 for outstanding dedication or service to the Society or the profession and its Special Features Award in 1983 for his Elvis the Paper Doll Book.