Brant Parker
Template:Infobox comics creator Brant Julian Parker (August 26, 1920 – April 15, 2007) was an American cartoonist.<ref name="grauniad">Template:Cite news</ref> He co-created and drew The Wizard of Id comic strip until passing the job on to his son, Jeff Parker, in 1997.<ref name="nyt">Template:Cite news</ref> Cartoonist Johnny Hart, his co-creator, continued writing the strip until his death on April 7, 2007. Parker himself died eight days later, on April 15.<ref name="grauniad"/><ref name="lat">Template:Cite news</ref>
Life
Parker studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California.<ref name="grauniad"/> He worked for the Walt Disney Studio before and after World War II, taking time off to serve in the United States Navy.<ref name="nyt"/> After leaving Disney in 1945, he moved to New York to work as a political cartoonist for the Binghamton Press.
Collaborations
It was in New York that he met Johnny Hart in 1950;<ref name="grauniad"/> Parker was judging an art contest in which 18-year-old Hart was an entrant.Template:Cn The meeting was the beginning of a friendship that led to the two collaborating on The Wizard of Id in 1964.<ref>"About Johnny Hart and Brant Parker". Template:Webarchive Creators.com website. Last accessed 2007-04-09.</ref> Parker teamed with Don Wilder on the political commentary strip, Goosemyer,<ref name="parkers"/> which ran from 1981 to 1983. He collaborated with Bill Rechin and Wilder on the strips Out of Bounds and Crock. Early on, Parker left those strips to devote more time to The Wizard of Id.
Awards
Parker received the National Cartoonists Society Humor Comic Strip Award for 1971, 1976, 1980, 1982 and 1983.<ref name="parkers">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="grauniad"/> He also received their Reuben Award for his work on the strip in 1984 and their Elzie Segar Award in 1986.
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