Phil Frank (March 27, 1943 – September 13, 2007) was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the San Francisco-based comic strip Farley and the artist on nationally syndicated comic strip The Elderberries (written by Joe Troise). Frank and Troise have worked together on other comic strip projects, including Chateau Defeat (published in the Wine Spectator), Miles to Go, and both Nigel Shiftright, Automotive Anachronism and the eponymou...
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Phil Frank (March 27, 1943 – September 13, 2007) was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the San Francisco-based comic strip Farley and the artist on nationally syndicated comic strip The Elderberries (written by Joe Troise). Frank and Troise have worked together on other comic strip projects, including Chateau Defeat (published in the Wine Spectator), Miles to Go, and both Nigel Shiftright, Automotive Anachronism and the eponymous Frank and Troise for Road & Track magazine.
Frank started cartooning at Michigan State University first by creating illustrations on classmates jackets and then with the university newspaper for $5 a strip. After graduation Frank took a job as an illustrator and humorist with Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, where his son Philip Frank was born. Frank returned to teach at Michigan State for a few years, during which time his daughter Stacy Frank was born. After moving to the Bay Area California in 1973 Frank was an illustrator for a variety of...
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