MARCUS HAMILTON - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 11/11/1996 - HFSID 307811
Price: $180.00
MARCUS HAMILTON
His autograph letter on his Dennis the Menace note card
Autograph Letter signed: "Marcus Hamilton", 6¼x4½ card. No
place, 1996 November 11. Penned on a card on his personal note card with
printed Dennis the Menace logo to "Hi Sandy", in full: "Thanks
for your interest in 'Dennis the Menace'. Mr. Ketcham is enjoying a
well-deserved retirement, while still overseeing all of Dennis' activities. Best
regards". Ernest Marcus Hamilton was a successful free-lance
illustrator featured in several national publications in the 1970s. His most
celebrated work was a portrait of Bob Hope featured on the cover of the
Christmas edition of The Saturday Evening Post in 1978. In the 1980s,
however, traditional artists were losing a competition with computer graphics
artists for magazine space, and Hamilton found himself reduced to minimum wage
employment at Wal-Mart. His fortunes reversed dramatically when Dennis the
Menace creator Hank Ketcham (d. 2001) interviewed Hamilton in 1993, liked
his portfolio, and hired him as an assistant. In 1995, Ketcham became the
primary artist on the daily strip, while another artist - Ron Ferdinand -
took over the Sunday cartoon. In 2005, Hamilton won the National Cartoonists
Society's award for Bet Newspaper Cartoon Panel of the Year. One vertical
fold. Otherwise, fine condition.
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