Jimmy Hatlo (1897-1963) was an American cartoonist who created the long-running comic strip They'll Do It Every Time in 1929 which he wrote and drew until his death in 1963. Hatlo's other strip, Little Iodine, was adapted into a feature-length movie in 1946.
Hatlo was born James Cecil Hatlow in East Providence, Rhode Island, on September 1, 1897. His father, James M. Hatlow, a printer, had emigrated from the Orkney Islands. The original spelling ...
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Jimmy Hatlo (1897-1963) was an American cartoonist who created the long-running comic strip They'll Do It Every Time in 1929 which he wrote and drew until his death in 1963. Hatlo's other strip, Little Iodine, was adapted into a feature-length movie in 1946.
Hatlo was born James Cecil Hatlow in East Providence, Rhode Island, on September 1, 1897. His father, James M. Hatlow, a printer, had emigrated from the Orkney Islands. The original spelling of the family name became an inconvenience when, as a budding sports cartoonist, Hatlo fashioned a trademark signature with the "H" drawn as stylized goal posts and the "o" as a descending football. He shrank the "w" into a small apostrophe in the signature but otherwise dropped it entirely.
When he was a small child, the family moved to Los Angeles. As a young man, Hatlo began doing incidental artwork and engravings for local newspapers during an era when halftone reproduction of photographs was still limited.
After the United States entered...
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