Ben Thompson (b. 1906)

Biography:

Ben Thompson did the pencil and ink work for a proposed weekly comic strip, Masked Marvel, for the Watkins Syndicate in 1939. The strip was solicited in Editor & Publisher magazine, but no examples of it being published are currently known.

Thompson also did gag cartoons for the New York Journal-American (Hearst Corporation, 1937 series), the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Hearst Corporation, 1921 series), and the Seattle Times (Seattle Times Company, 1891 series). Dates of publication currently not known.

Name:

Other Names:

  1. Thompson Type: Family (type is deprecated)
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Signatures:

  1. Ben Thompson [generic]
  2. BT [generic]
  3. Thompson [generic]

Relations:

  1. Employee of - Funnies, Inc. (b. 1939)
    Notes: Thompson did pencil and ink work for the studio, from circa 1939 to circa 1942.

Schools:

  1. University of Washington ? to ?

  2. Chicago Art Institute ? to ?

Memberships:

  1. National Cartoonist Society Type: member

Non Comics Works:

  1. Publication Title: Click (magazine) - Role: artist

  2. Publication Title: Colliers (magazine) - Role: artist

  3. Publication Title: New Yorker (magazine) - Role: artist

  4. Publication Title: unknown (advertising) - Role: artist
    Employer Name : unknown

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