Dave Gantz
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Dave Gantz was an American
United States
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 artist and sculptor who wrote children's books and worked as a newspaper
Newspaper
A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

 cartoonist
Cartoonist
A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

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Gantz penciled and inked
Inker
The inker is one of the two line artists in a traditional comic book or graphic novel. After a pencilled drawing is given to the inker, the inker uses black ink to produce refined outlines over the pencil lines...

 comic books in the 1940s and 1950s, often working for Timely Comics
Timely Comics
Timely Comics, an imprint of Timely Publications, was the earliest comic book arm of American publisher Martin Goodman, and the entity that would evolve by the 1960s to become Marvel Comics....

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He received the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award in 1997 for Gantz Glances.

In retirement, Gantz wrote and drew The History of Jews in America, and devoted much of his time to sculpture.

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