Joe messerli biography
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The prolific illustrator and comic book artist Joe Messerli passed away last Wednesday at the age of 79. Complications relating to cancer are given as the cause.
Joe Messerli was successful in several artistic careers. Born in Kingston, Texas, he started out as an assistant to the local cartoonist Charlie Plumb on the syndicated Ella Cinders newspaper strip. Later, Joe was one of many who ghosted the Napoleon & Uncle Elby and still later, he inked and lettered the Flintstones and Yogi Bear strips. (Most of the online obits for Joe today feature a sample from a Sunday Flintstones strip…but I'm pretty sure that's not his work. That one was lettered and inked by Lee Hooper.)
Joe worked extensively for Western Publishing on their comic books and activity books in the sixties and seventies on most of their licensed titles but especially on Daffy Duck, Pink Panther and Woody Woodpecker. I wrote a lot of those so I got to know him a little. He struck me as a har
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Joe Messerli United States
- Born
- 18 November 1930 in United States
- Died
- 23 June 2010 in United States
- Age
- 79 years
- Credited for
art
letters
- Also known as
Joseph Hugh Messerli (birth name)
Joe Messerli (common alternative)
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Joe Messerli's website, including a biography of his career:
https://www.joemesserli.com/.
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Joseph Messerli (1930 - 2010)
JOSEPH MESSERLIwas from Texas. His first important job
was to assist cartoonist Charlie Plumb on the ELLA CINDERS
comic strip (United Features Syndicate) at the age of 18.
Since then, a myriad of art jobs, mostly free-lance, everything
from DAFFY DUCK to the TWILIGHT ZONE logo.
Served in the U.S. Army (Korea 1950-1952).
Attended Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles on the G.I. Bill.
He "ghosted" the NAPOLEON AND
UNCLE ELBY comic strip in the early '50s
(while at the same time attending Art School).
Assisted Al Wiseman on DENNIS THE MENACE comic books in
the Sequoia National Forest in California (1955-56).
He worked at UPA Studios (designed the very first TWILIGHT ZONE logo)
and NBC Burbank Graphic Arts Department (color illustrations for
the BONANZA credits); he was at Cambria Studio when they
did CLUTCH CARGO, CAPTAIN FATHOM, SPACE ANGEL etc;
for most of the 60s he did the inking and lettering on the FLINTSTONE
daily and