JIM SCANCARELLI - ORIGINAL ART SIGNED 01/25/1987 - HFSID 252139

JIM SCANCARELLI
Signed 11-panel 23¼x15½ Sunday strip for Gasoline Alley, drawn in 1987
Original art signed "Scancarelli". Blue pencil notations in bottom right corner and black ink notations on verso, all in unknown hand. Copyright label in bottom right corner. Title label in top left corner. B/w, 23¼x15½, drawn on cardstock. ©1987 Tribune Media Services, Inc. 11-panel strip for Gasoline Alley for Sunday, Jan. 25. Frank King created the comic strip Gasoline Alley in 1918, a unique story comic in which the characters aged naturally. (Walt Wallet, an original Gasoline Alley character, is over 100 years old as of this biography and probably isn't long for this world) In the late 1950s, King turned the strip over to Dick Moores, who hired Scancarelli, born in New York City in 1941, as his assistant in 1979. Since 1986, Scancarelli has been its sole author and artist. Scancarelli's strip won the National Cartoonist Society Story Comic Strip Award in 1988 and celebrated its 90th birthday on November 24, 2008. Scancarelli is also a skilled fiddler and founding member of the bluegrass band Kilocycle Kowboys. Lightly toned, soiled and creased. Normal pencil tracings. 5-inch wide portion was neatly cut from top and reattached with tape on verso. Tape residue at bottom corners, with discoloration at bottom left corner, and along bottom edge of cut-off top portion. Light dents in left edge. Otherwise in fine condition.