Jack Mendelsohn

Born November 8, 1926· Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA

† Died January 25, 2017

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Born in Brooklyn, Mendelsohn entered the creative field after leaving high school to serve in the Navy; post-war he supplied gag cartoons to The Saturday Evening Post and other magazines, while his father’s work as an agent for Winsor McCay exposed him early to animation. He later devised the innovative Sunday strip Jackys Diary, which ran from 1959 to 1961, was turned into two Noveltoons shorts i… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources