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George Gately Gallagher (December 21, 1928 – September 30, 2001), better known as George Gately, was an American cartoonist, notable as the creator of the popular ''Heathcliff'' comic strip. Born in Queens Village, Queens, Gately came from a family of comics lovers. His father was an amateur doodler, and his elder brother John was also a cartoonist. He grew up and went to school in Bergenfield, New Jersey. Gately studied art at Pratt Institute. After graduating, he worked at an advertising agency for 11 years, but commercial art gave him little satisfaction. Seeing the success of his elder brother, George decided to enter the cartoon field. In 1957, he sold his first comic. He dropped his last name of Gallagher to avoid confusion with his brother. ==Comic strips== In 1964, he created his first strip, ''Hapless Harry'', which ran for a few years in several newspapers. But his most memorable creation came in 1971 in the form of a fat orange cat, Heathcliff. ''Heathcliff'' was an enormous success and was published in newspapers worldwide. To keep up with the demand, he recruited Bob Laughlin, and later his brother John to help draw the daily strips and Sunday color pages. ''Heathcliff'' is distributed to over 1,000 newspapers by Creators Syndicate, who took over the strip from McNaught Syndicate in 1988. Gately gave up drawing in 1998. ''Heathcliff'' is now written and drawn by his nephew Peter Gallagher.〔 On September 30, 2001, at the age of 72, Gately died of a heart attack at Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, New Jersey. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Gately」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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