Bill Nolan

Early life and education Nolan attended La Salle Academy and Classical High School in Providence, Rhode Island.

Career Nolan first began his career in 1913 as a newspaper cartoonist, then worked for Raoul Barre and King Features Syndicate until 1918. He served at Headquarters, 3rd Naval District in New York and the Brooklyn Naval Hospital, New York.

Nolan also worked at MGM on The Captain and the Kids series based on the comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids. He then worked with Fleischer Studios where he worked on Popeye and Gulliver's Travels. During World War II, Nolan was in the Navy drawing technical manuals with Timm Aircraft. In 1949, after the war, he formed Willam-Nicholas Productions with Nick Nicholas. He moved his company in 1954 in Madison, Wisconsin, where he died in December.