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FRANK O'NEAL
O'NEAL, FRANK (1921-)
American cartoonist born in Springfield, Mo. on May 9, 1921. Frank O'Neal received a desultory education in schools from Arkansas to California, following his traveling father. After service in WWII, O'Neal attended art classes for three years with noted cartoonist Jefferson Machamer. In 1950 he sold his first cartoon to the Saturday Evening Post. Thus encouraged, he decided to embark on a full-time cartooning career, and became a contributor to many national magazines and publications.
In 1956 Frank O'Neal took a job drawing storyboards for television but quit in 1958 when his strip Short Ribs (depicting the outlandish doings of a host of nutty characters) was accepted by NEA Service. Since then he has been devoting all his time to the writing and drawing of this strip.
Frank O'Neal ranks higher as a keen observer of the absurdities of life and as an inventive and witty humorist (both in his dialogues and in his situations) than as a cartooning innovator. His drawing style, clean and functional, is perfectly suited, however, to his Martini-dry wit.
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