Ham Fisher
Cartoonist, Comic Strip Creator
1900 – 1955
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Who was Ham Fisher?
Hammond Edward Fisher was an American comic strip writer and cartoonist who signed his work Ham Fisher. He is best known for his popular long-run on Joe Palooka, which was launched in 1930 and ranked as one of the top five newspaper comics strips for several years.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Ham Fisher dropped out of school at the age of 16 to work as a brush peddler and truck driver before finding employment as a reporter and ad salesman for the Wilkes-Barre Record and then moving on to a job with the New York Daily News.
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- Born
- Sep 24, 1900
Wilkes-Barre - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Wilkes-Barre
- Died
- Sep 7, 1955
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on July 23, 2013
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