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Anthony Louis "Tony" DiPreta〔 (Scroll down to third obituary.)〕 (July 9, 1921 – June 2, 2010)〔(Anthony L. DiPreta ) at the United States Social Security Death Index via FamilySearch.org. Retrieved on July 30, 2015. (Archived ) from the original on July 30, 2015.〕 was an American comic book and comic strip artist active from the 1940s Golden Age of comic books. He was the longtime successor artist of the comic strip ''Joe Palooka'' (1959–84) and drew the ''Rex Morgan, M.D.'' daily strip from 1994 until DiPreta's retirement in 2000. ==Early life and career== Born in July 1921 at Stamford, Connecticut,〔(Tony Di Preta ) () at the Lambiek Comiclopedia. (Archived ) October 18, 2011. Note: Tony DiPreta confirms spelling as "DiPreta", with no space, in interview, ''Alter Ego'' #60 (July 2006), pp. 43-60. He was born July 9, 1921, per DiPreta in that interview, p. 43. The Lambiek Comiclopedia erroneously gives July 8.〕 to a family that included brothers Joe and Leonard,〔 Tony DiPreta grew up during the Great Depression, during which his father had little or no work and his mother sewed in a sweat shop for $7 a week. He decided while in junior high school that he would pursue an art career after reading in the local newspaper that cartoonist H. T. Webster made $50,000 a year. "I thought, 'Boy, that's a lot.' I went down and saw him, and he talked to me. Then I started drawing for my junior high school. It made me feel like I could really draw."〔 DiPreta took art classes when he attended Stamford High School. After graduating, DiPreta and fellow future professionals Red Wexler and Bob Fujitani took classes at the Silvermine Guild, where the trio drew from live models. DiPreta had worked for a local advertising agency while attending high school, and after a year doing that, he obtained a union job at McCalls Photo Engraving, also in Stamford. During his subsequent year at McCalls, DiPreta began coloring comic books for company client Quality Comics, located a half-mile away. Separately, DiPreta freelanced as a fill-in letterer for Lyman Young's newspaper comic strip ''Tim Tyler's Luck''. DiPreta recalled, "My brother Joe used to caddy (the old Greenwich golf course ). ... Lyman Young, who did ''Tim Tyler's Luck'', used to play there, and my brother was once lucky enough to caddy for Lyman Young. He told Lyman Young that I wanted to be a cartoonist, and Young said, 'Well, bring him down.' ... I went to see him and he said, 'Why don't you letter my strip?' But this wasn't a permanent job. He'd call me on a Saturday afternoon — when he wanted to play golf — and I'd come over and letter his strips."〔DiPreta, ''Alter Ego'', p. 48〕 After seeing the portfolio samples that DiPreta brought to him during a lunch hour in 1940, Quality publisher Everett M. "Busy" Arnold hired DiPreta as a staff letterer for $25 per week, a wage equal to that of his now-working father's well-paying job as a defense industry worker. Under editor Ed Cronin and Cronin's assistant Gill Fox, DiPreta was sent to Quality artist Lou Fine's Tudor City studio in Manhattan to observe and learn from Fine's highly regarded draftsmanship. Shortly afterward, Arnold was concerned over what he saw as Fine's undynamic storytelling, and had Fujitani and DiPreta do pencil-breakdowns for a story each that Fine would finish penciling and inking; DiPreta's starred the character Uncle Sam. At some point, he studied at Columbia University and the University of Connecticut.〔 DiPreta's first generally accepted solo art credit in comics is a one-page humor filler in publisher Quality's ''National Comics'' #8 (Feb. 1941).〔(''National Comics'' #8 ) at the Grand Comics Database〕 His first confirmable credit is a similar filler in the company's ''Doll Man'' #2 (Spring 1942).〔(''Doll Man'' #2 ) at the Grand Comics Database〕 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「Tony DiPreta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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