About Dave Gantz
Lived 1922 – 2007 (aged 85). Dave Gantz was a cartoonist, comics artist and sculptor.
David Gantz (December 6, 1922 – December 14, 2007) was an American artist and sculptor who illustrated children's books and worked as a newspaper cartoonist.
Biography Gantz graduated from The High School of Music & Art in New York City, the National Academy of Design at Iowa State University.
He penciled and inked comic books in the 1940s and 1950s, working for Timely Comics's humor features like Gandy Goose, Sharpy Fox, Mighty Mouse, Patsy Walker, and Super Rabbit. Don Q. was syndicated until 1981.
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s he illustrated children's books.
Gantz authored the editorial cartoon Gantz' Glances for Newsday from 1997 to 1999; he received the National Cartoonists Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award in 1997 for it.
In retirement, Gantz wrote and drew The History of Jews in America, and devoted much of his time to sculpture.
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Who was Dave Gantz?
cartoonist (1922-2007)
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Dave Gantz was born on 6 December 1922.
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Dave Gantz died on 14 December 2007.
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Dave Gantz was a cartoonist, comics artist and sculptor.
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