Don Wilder (b. 1934)

Born: 1934 June 23 in Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States Died: 2008 September 24 in Virginia, United States Issue List Issue Overview Issue Edit List Cover List Series List Character List Feature List Sequence List Co-Creator List via story credit search for "Don Wilder" Issues to be Migrated Issue List Story Credits in the GCD

Biography:

Wilder worked as a technical illustrator, visual media coordinator, and publications specialist for Lockheed Aircraft, RCA, and General Electric. He spent seventeen years as information specialist for the CIA.

He worked as a cartoonist and teamed up with Bill Rechin and Brant Parker to create Crock comic strip in 1975 for King Features, with Wilder as writer and Rechin as artist taking over the strip in 1977 and continued until Wilder's death in 2008. From 1986 to 1993, both also created the humorous sports panel for King Features, Out of Bounds.

Wilder obituaries:
The Comics Reporter, "Don Wilder, 1934-2008" September 25, 2008 (http://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/don_wilder_1934_2008/);
"Cartoonist Don Wilder Dead at 74" September 25, 2008, (http://kingfeatures.com/2008/09/cartoonist-don-wilder-dead-at-74/);
ComicMix, "‘Crock’ Creator Don Wilder Dead", by Robert Greenberger, September 26, 2008 (https://www.comicmix.com/2008/09/26/crock-creator-don-wilder-dead/)