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Vincent Trout Hamlin (10 May 1900 – 14 June 1993), who preferred the name V. T. Hamlin, created the popular, long-run comic strip ''Alley Oop'', syndicated by the Newspaper Enterprise Association. Born in Perry, Iowa, Hamlin was the son of Erma Trout Hamlin and Dr. Frederick Clarence Hamlin, a dentist. The young Vincent Hamlin began drawing at an early age, and he first drew the character that became Alley Oop at age 11. Four years later, his first cartoons were published in the ''Perry Daily Chief''. At Perry High School, he went by the nickname Snick, which he used as his signature on cartoons he drew for his high school yearbook, ''The Eclipse''. By lying about his age, Hamlin enlisted in the Army at 17 to fight in World War I. He shipped out as part of the Sixth Army's Motor Transport Group, arriving in France where he served with the American Expeditionary Forces in 1918. Recovering from a poison gas attack in France, Hamlin began illustrating the letters of his fellow soldiers, and a newspaper man he met while he was in the Army convinced him he could make a living from his art abilities.〔(University of Missouri: V.T. Hamlin Collection )〕〔(Stiles, Steve. "The Man Who Walked with Dinosaurs", Collecting Channel. )〕 ==After World War I== After his discharge, Hamlin went back to Perry High School in 1919. He then attended college, first a term at the University of Missouri in 1920, followed by study of journalism at Drake University in 1922. His college experiences came to an end after a quarrel with an art teacher, as he recalled, "Then the teacher took out my drawing and she stood up with it before the class and announced: 'Now here's a man with a wonderful talent and he wants to waste it on being a cartoonist!'"〔 He traveled around the U.S, working at various jobs as a sign painter, an animator, window dresser, card writer, movie projectionist and semi-professional boxer. After employment in 1922 as a journalist at the ''Des Moines News'', Hamlin worked for the ''Texas Grubstakers'' newspaper and the ''Fort Worth Record''. His income for the year 1922 was $910. By 1923, he was on staff as a photographer, a cartoonist and a writer at the ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'', where he created his first comic strip, ''The Hired Hand'', and a sports feature, ''The Panther Kitten''. Cartoonist Steve Stiles noted: :The job only lasted a year. It was the Prohibition era and Hamlin and a friend were discovered using the paper's engraving equipment to make counterfeit labels for bootleg whiskey bottles. Hamlin moved on to doing art for an oil industry publication and one day, while wandering through the desolate landscape of the oil fields, began musing about the dinosaurs who had once roamed through the very same territory. Hamlin also acquired a lifelong interest in paleontology through conversations with geologist acquaintances.〔 On December 24, 1926, he married high-school sweetheart Dorothy Stapleton, who became the model for the character of Ooola in ''Alley Oop''. Their daughter Theodora was born in 1927, followed by their son Jon in 1936. In 1928, he worked as a photographer for the ''Houston Press''. When the oil industry magazine went under, the Hamlins returned to Perry, Iowa in 1930.〔(Alley Oop: 75 Years of the Comic World of V. T. Hamlin )〕〔(The Cartoonists: V.T. Hamlin )〕 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「V. T. Hamlin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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