Pete Millar
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illustrator
Illustrator
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, cartoonist
Cartoonist
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, and drag racer best known for his work with CARtoons
CARtoons Magazine
CARtoons magazine was an American publication that focused on automotive humor and hot rod artwork. Originated by Carl Kohler and drag-racing artist Pete Millar, it was published by Petersen Publication Company as a quarterly starting in 1959. Editors over the years included Dick Day, Jack...
and DRAGtoons magazines. Millar often used the pen names Arin Cee and Millarkey.
Millar co-created the Petersen Publication CARtoons magazine in 1959, which ended its run in 1991. The first issue of CARtoons included the story of the hot rod community as a social collective and introduced the term Rumpsville
Rumpsville
Rumpsville slang n. also Rumpville The name of a fictional place described as Hot Rod Heaven. A term originally used in the CARtoons Magazine comic strip “Saga of Rumpville” by Pete Millar aka Arin Cee...
. He worked on the project until 1963, when he was replaced by Hot Rod Magazine
Hot Rod Magazine
Hot Rod is an American monthly magazine devoted to hot rodding, —modifying automobiles for performance and appearance.-History:Hot Rod is the oldest magazine devoted to hot rodding having been published since 1948. Robert E. Petersen founded the magazine and his Petersen Publishing Company...
editor and Stroker McGurk creator Tom Medley.
In June 1963 Millar founded DRAGcartoons under the Millar Publications label. He worked on this project well into the 1970s . Millar Publications also produced four issues of the popular Ed "Big Daddy" Roth Magazine.