Ketcham, Henry King

Ketcham, Henry King
▪ 2002
“Hank” 
      American cartoonist (b. March 14, 1920, Seattle, Wash.—d. June 1, 2001, Pebble Beach, Calif.), was the creator of the Dennis the Menace comic strip, which daily chronicled the antics and misadventures of a blond, freckle-faced scamp perpetually “five-ana-half” years old. The 50-year-old strip appeared in some 1,000 newspapers in 48 countries and 19 languages. Ketcham discovered his desire to become a cartoonist when he was six years old; after watching a family friend draw some comic-strip characters, he asked to borrow the man's “magic pencil.” He attended the University of Washington but dropped out in order to pursue his career. Ketcham worked as an animator first for Woody Woodpecker creator Walter Lantz and then for Walt Disney. At Disney he worked on animated films, including Fantasia (1940), Pinocchio (1940), and Bambi (1942). During World War II Ketcham served in the navy, where he drew cartoons to be used on posters and in material for training and war-bond-sales purposes, and following the war he became a freelance cartoonist. Ketcham's inspiration for the character of Dennis came (1950) from his rambunctious son of the same name; the child's mother—complaining that when Dennis was supposed to be taking a nap, he instead wrecked his room—exclaimed to Ketcham, “Your son is a menace!” Within five months the strip was running in 16 newspapers, and by 1953 it was being enjoyed by 30 million readers of 193 newspapers in the U.S. and 52 abroad. Cartoon books, a television series (1959–63), a musical, films, games, and toys followed. Ketcham ceased drawing the Sunday strips himself in the mid-1980s and in 1994 turned the daily strips over to a team of artists and writers. He thereupon devoted his artistic skills to oil and watercolour painting. Ketcham's autobiography, The Merchant of Dennis the Menace, was published in 1990.

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