About Ray Helle
Lived 1917 – 1999 (aged 81–82). Ray Helle was a cartoonist and comics artist.
Ray Helle (1917-1999) was an artist who was born in New York City and trained as a cartoonist at the Pratt Institute. He crafted freelance gag cartoons until 1941.
He was then drafted into the United States Army and saw action in Europe during World War II. Some of his service was with a ski battalion in Norway. After the war, he was primarily a gag cartoonist until 1954, after which he focused on his daily comic strips The Flibbertys and Box Seat. He went into semi-retirement in 1989.
Helle died in 1999.
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American cartoonist
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Ray Helle was born in 1917.
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Ray Helle died in 1999.
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Ray Helle was a cartoonist and comics artist.
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