William Michael Wenzel (January 22, 1918 – May 12, 1987)William Wenzel

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116-07-7883, at the

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Note: Source gives only "May 1987" as date of death. Retrieved on January 31, 2014. was an American

cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators/artists in that they produce both the litera ...

best known as a widely published

good girl art Good girl art (GGA) is a style of artwork depicting women primarily featured in comic books, comic strips, and pulp magazines. The term was coined by the American Comic Book Company, appearing in its mail order catalogs from the 1930s to the 1970 ...

ist for

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Biography

Bill Wenzel was born in

Irvington, New Jersey Irvington is a Township (New Jersey), township in Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. As of the 2020 United States census, the township's population was 61,176, an increase of 7,250 (+13.4%) from the 2010 Uni ...

and grew up in nearby Union Township.Cahillane, Kevin
"ART; Nostalgia, Wearing Stilettos"
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'', December 4, 2005. Accessed August 9, 2016. "He was born in Irvington in 1918, grew up in Union, married his high school sweetheart on his 24th birthday, had two daughters, served in World War II and spent 30 years in Atlantic Highlands."Chun, Covey, p. 16 His parents were from

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. In 1941 Wenzel was drafted into the Army. His bawdy cartoon spot illustrations were published over the course of several decades, from such publications as ''Judge'' in the 1940s to '' Sex to Sexty'' in the 1960s and 1970s, and particularly for the

Humorama Humorama, a division of Martin Goodman (publisher), Martin Goodman's publishing firm, was a line of digest-sized magazines featuring girlie cartoons by Bill Ward (cartoonist), Bill Ward, Bill Wenzel, Dan DeCarlo, Jack Cole (artist), Jack Cole and ...

division of publisher Martin Goodman's variously titled corporations. Wenzel's work, which featured busty, big-eyed, yet innocently risque young women, was published in such magazines and digests as ''Gaze'', ''Joker'', ''Jest'', ''Comedy'', and ''Stare''. Most captions were written by the artist himself. In 1967 Wenzel drew illustrations for the book ''

Coffee, Tea or Me? ''Coffee, Tea or Me?'' is a book of purported memoirs by the fictitious stewardesses Trudy Baker and Rachel Jones, written by the initially uncredited Donald Bain and first published in 1967. The book depicts the anecdotal lives of two lusty y ...

'' that, according to the author Donald Bain, "contributed significantly to the book's success".Chun, Covey, p. 21 In 1979, after having lived almost 30 years in

Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey Atlantic Highlands is a borough in Monmouth County in the U.S. state of New Jersey, in the Bayshore Region. As of the 2020 United States census, the borough's population was 4,414, an increase of 29 (+0.7%) from the 2010 census count of 4,38 ...

, Wenzel and his family moved to

Naples, Florida Naples is a city in Collier County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 19,115, down from 19,539 at the 2010 census. Naples is a principal city of the Collier County, Florida, Naples–Marc ...

, where he died in 1987 of

lung cancer Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma, is a malignant tumor that begins in the lung. Lung cancer is caused by genetic damage to the DNA of cells in the airways, often caused by cigarette smoking or inhaling damaging chemicals. Damaged ...

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* 1918 births 1987 deaths American magazine cartoonists American humorists People from Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey People from Irvington, New Jersey People from Union Township, Union County, New Jersey {{US-cartoonist-stub