Show of the Force Cl Creator calor has lIas II had ad Inter Car Cal eef eCI 1 w 11 J- J i I F 0 ALEXANDER ER F 0 Alexander Ale is one of the th e J 3 younger American cm cal ho tin ho has has on i w on n 1 1 pi by adding Pinney Finney ot of the Farce to the list of famous comic strIp characters Believing mg that our ou r readers would like to know inor more e bout about the thc of Finney after enjoying the adventures adventure's of o olies record lies Jus genial gemal officer the pIctorIal of winch v is a regular fen fen- tUl c a in this newspaper w vie e e ha hav j e asked asked Mr l Alexander to be hk lik lIke e Finney and her him Which v he has ha c done in n thIS Characteristic fa fashion uon t If If J 3 vou ou must know Im I'm thirty t three iree 3 v ears old and as the time photo photo- photograph raph raphIn ill v In s reveal recal rC re cal eal pug nosed and d ear sIghted But the hat keep heeps s iOU from knowing mg that Im I'm bald balda d a 15 an egg in III a nest As for my career as a car car- cartoonist the urge began in hIgh 1 school hool w v herc here I sold my used use d books distorted at a premium for the dis bs- bs portraits of dignified fac- fac faculty fac faculty members which I drew there ther therin e m in Crashed the Chicago Dally Daily Dail y News art department to Luther show Lu- Lu Lu- Lu ther Bradley some hideous strip p samples at the tho age of fourteen TIa e respected and admired M r Bradleys Bradley's patience and restrain t eVer since Have the same feel feel- mg ing feeling for John T McCutcheon t to o whom all fear and trembling I Isho sho showed show ed specimens later eight years year s lC My first published work was a cartoon done for a boy box bo While hile Jule IWas I was as office boy company for adv the ad- ad ad v agency handling then theIr r account That was the proudest t moment S of my y lIfe Served Servero on art ar ta staff t of college colleg publications a and an d h to o 0 J 3 ears cars in the dr camouflage se ser ser- r- r service VIce during the tho war fired out to t 0 paint guns Did drove nothing of the th e sort drove e stakes stake carried carrier shells she Put nets up overruns ns and do doe do e dug dugouts outs After the the war war three three months month ee es In art school Academy s of Fin e Arts Chicago National l Academy of Art lt school Chicago go nigh t Correspondence de ce cm courses b U never the first sectIon of any of them Worked Sinclair In the art department nt of the Sin Sm- claIr Oil company then did com com- merCIal commerCIal cartoon cartoons for house sales bulletins etc In m organs ship partnership sl wIth Frank J cutler Butler partner partner- now head of the art department of the Buffalo N Y Courier Journal Had lD mv own studio for three ears cars moving mg ing just dust ahead of the building superintendent each 3 car ear Began Bevan indicating sv J a strIp manned Billy the Stiff to school and college dailies and weeklIes all allover 0 over or the S Syndicated stock comic cuts allover all 0 over el the n world orId Then began doing Fm Fin Fin- Pm nev nc ney for the Western Newspaper and ha have a 0 been beon dom doin th that t I I the la last t Six I J 3 ear car I yes Yo rm Im I'm married ned Have two and the other five e girls one Tad Tad- TaU little girl adopted Ys Carol Carolyn n nY pole r 1 mv my little girl all by m self elf Fume Finney Y Yes cc 1 I do artists or Ilae e no ghost to do any of it for me mc I am an anink ink cartoonist in m the sense sence c of a farmer farmer being a dirt dirt I 1 did reminds me tint Ameri AmerI- AmerIcan American American cartoons for the for tor Bureau Federation can Faim um 0 over er four Sears ears I golf fish fi ih and hunt occasion occasionally occasionally mostly and darn draw all ally but near all the while Jule I live the life of Riley because Im I'm doing the thing I like in III life hie best of all lucre 1 here you are arc an open book a as interesting as a street directory We Ve cant can't agree with Ith Mr Alex Ale Aleander Alex Alexander Alexander ander in III that last statement and we believe belIe behe e that our readers Will Ill enJoy this peep behind the scenes with the creator cre-ator of Fin Fm Fin ney ney so much that they will beall be beall beall all the more interested in III n watch watch- watching watching ing mg for his further adventures adventure as they appear in III this newspaper friends about and in III n telling their hIm and the man who ho draws him |