Brant Parker biography

Brant Julius Parker (26 August 1920 - 15 April 2007; USA)

Brant Parker was an American cartoonist. He co-created and drew The Wizard of Id comic strip until passing the job on to his son, Jeff Parker, in 1997. 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.

Debuting in 1964, The Wizard of Id gave Parker and Hart a flexible premise for satirising modern society through the distorting mirror of a multi-levelled medieval kingdom, misruled by a petty sovereign, "a tyrant's tyrant" who has an over inflated ego and an over sensitivity about his tiny size. In his expressive, spontaneous-looking style, Parker drew all of the Wizard panels, basing them on gags that he and Hart refined together.

Parker studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, California. He worked for the Walt Disney Studio before and after World War II, taking time off to serve in the United States Navy. After leaving Disney in 1945, he moved to New York to work as a political cartoonist for the Binghamton Press.

Parker received the National Cartoonists Society Humor Comic Strip Award for 1971, 1976, 1980, 1982 and 1983. He also received their Reuben Award for his work on the strip in 1984 and their Elzie Segar Award in 1986.
Source: Wikipedia and theguardian.com

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