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James Scancarelli (born August 24, 1941), known professionally as Jim Scancarelli, is an American cartoonist and musician. Since 1986, he has been writing and drawing the syndicated comic strip ''Gasoline Alley'' for Tribune Media Services. In that role, his predecessors were Frank King, Bill Perry and Dick Moores. He had served as an assistant to the latter for several years before taking over.〔http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/rri/srri/sb.htm〕 Scancarelli is also a prizewinning bluegrass fiddler. ==Early life and career== Born in New York City, Scancarelli is the son of an archivist for the Italian embassy. When he was still an infant, his family moved to his mother's home state of North Carolina. When his family moved to Washington, D.C., for his father’s job, Scancarelli became the target of bullies in school. This circumstance played a role in developing his love of comics. "Comics were my escape," Scancarelli said. "The characters became my friends. My dad used to bring home three newspapers every night and we’d read the comics."〔Gaylord HeraldTimes.com, Sunday, November 24, 2013, Cartoonist for oldest American comic led to art by bullying, by Kurt Kolka http://www.petoskeynews.com/gaylord/news/nation/cartoonist-for-oldest-american-comic-led-to-art-by-bullying/article_68309cd0-53b2-11e3-97aa-001a4bcf6878.html〕 Scancarelli's sense of humor was developed while listening to the radio programs of Amos and Andy, Jack Benny and Fred Allen. Scancarelli credits these "hilarious" comedians with giving him the comedic sensibility which later infused his comics, "whether anyone appreciates that kind of humor or not."〔From The Daily Courier, Nov. 18, 2012, Artist talks about Cliffside’s connection to Gasoline Alley, BY JEAN GORDON http://remembercliffside.com/memories/newsstories/scancarelli_story/artist_talks.html〕 After serving in the U.S. Navy, he went into radio and television, including a position as art director for ''The Johnny Cash Show'', creating scenery and writing cue cards. In the early 1960s he also worked as an artist in WBTV’s (the CBS-affiliated television station in Charlotte, North Carolina) graphics department, where he would design sets and props, and draw images on the weather maps. He also would act on occasion, and wrote and voiced episodes of ''The Yellowjacket'', a regular five-minute drive-time radio segment on WBT-FM influenced by the Batman show.〔 Scancarelli had a successful career as a freelance magazine illustrator, and he did slide transparency art until computers made that job obsolete.〔(National Cartoonists Society )〕 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「Jim Scancarelli」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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