Hal Sherman
{{short description|Cartoonist and comic book artist (1911–2009)}}
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Hal Sherman (born Harold Sicherman; March 31, 1911Murray, Will. "The Wonder Woman Who Was Lost!: The Hal Sherman Story", Comic Book Marketplace, May 2000, pp. 44–53. – January 25, 2009Social Security Death Index) was a gag cartoonist and a Platinum Age and Golden Age comic-book artist.
He is noted for his work on the Star-Spangled Kid superhero, which he co-created with Jerry Siegel, who had previously co-created the Superman superhero.{{cite book|last=Wallace|first= Daniel|editor-last = Dolan|editor-first = Hannah|chapter= 1940s|title = DC Comics Year by Year A Visual Chronicle|publisher=Dorling Kindersley|year=2010|location= London, United Kingdom|isbn= 978-0-7566-6742-9|page= 37|quote = Star Spangled Kid had previously appeared in Action Comics #40, but this story by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Hal Sherman introduced his adult sidekick, Stripesy.}}{{cite web|url=https://www.lambiek.net/artists/s/sherman_hal.htm|title=Hal Sherman|website=lambiek.net}}
Gag cartooning
Sherman drew gag cartoons for magazines, including College Laughs. During the 1950s, he created cartoons for cocktail napkins published by Monogram of California. His napkin sets include Double Feature, which was two-panel cartoons, one on the outside of the napkin, another that appeared when it was unfolded (1955);{{cite web|url=https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-boxed-hal-sherman-risque-249992668|title=Vintage Boxed Hal Sherman Risque Cartoon Cocktail Napkins – Party Novelty – #249992668|website=Worthpoint}} Little Friar, gags about a friar (1956); and Nudeniks, cartoons about nudists (1958).{{cite web|url=https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-1958-hal-sherman-nudeniks-293988536|title=Vintage 1958 Hal Sherman Nudeniks Cocktail Bar Napkins, Set of 23 – #293988536|website=Worthpoint}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bDQhAQAAIAAJ&q=hal+sherman+napkins&pg=PA216|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series|date=November 10, 1963|publisher=|via=Google Books}}{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZB0hAQAAIAAJ&q=hal+sherman+napkins&pg=PA587|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1958: January-June|first=Library of Congress Copyright|last=Office|date=November 10, 2018|publisher=Copyright Office, Library of Congress|via=Google Books}}
During the 1960s, he expanded the Little Friar and the Nudeniks material each into their own full paperback of cartoons.{{cite web|url=http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-little-friar-by-hal-sherman.html|title= The Little Friar by Hal Sherman|first=Mike|last=Lynch|date=March 31, 2014|publisher=}} He also drew Alley Whoops! (1962), a book of bowling cartoons, Pennant Laffs (1963), a book of punch-out humorous pennants, and Fishing for Laughs (1964), a volume of fishing cartoons.
Awards
Personal life
Sherman and Ann, his wife of over sixty years, are buried together in Mount Hebron Cemetery in Flushing, New York.
References
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