Dick Moores
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Dick Moores is a comic strip creator whose best known work was for the comic strip Gasoline Alley. He received the National Cartoonist Society Story Comic Strip Awards for 1973, 1980, 1981, 1982, and 1985, and their Reuben Award for 1974 for his work on this strip.
Early in his career he inked backgrounds for Dick Tracy. Eventually he was able to launch his own comic strip Jim Hardy that ran from 1936 to 1942. After that ended for a time he draw Disney's Brer Rabbit comic strip. He spent a period in the 1950s at Western Publishing drawing funny animal comics book stories. The best known of these is the Mickey Mouse story "The Wonderful Whizzix" (Four Color #427, Oct. 1952), which some think was an inspiration years later for the Disney movie The Love Bug. Moores was hired by Frank King in 1956 to assist him on the Gasoline Alley dailies (King's former assistant Bill Perry had taken over doing the Sunday strip in 1951). In 1959, King retired and Moores assumed writing and drawing duties for the daily strip. When Perry retired in 1975 Moores added to his workload the Sunday strip. Moores continued doing Gasoline Alley until his death in 1986. Then Moores' assistant Jim Scancarelli succeeded him and does the strip to this day.
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