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Jack Elrod (March 29, 1924 – February 16, 2016) was an American cartoonist best known for the comic strip ''
Mark Trail ''Mark Trail'' is a newspaper comic strip created by the American cartoonist Ed Dodd. Introduced April 15, 1946, the strip centers on Environmentalism, environmental and ecological themes. As of 2020, King Features syndicated the strip to "near ...
''. The creator of ''Mark Trail'',
Ed Dodd Edward Benton Dodd (November 7, 1902 – May 27, 1991) was a 20th-century American cartoonist known for his ''Mark Trail'' comic strip. Early years Born in Lafayette, Georgia to Reverend Jesse Mercer Dodd and Effie Cook Dodd (the artist Lamar ...
, began the strip in 1946. Elrod began working on the strip as an artist in 1950, then in 1978 when Dodd's eyesight failed he turned the strip over to Jack Elrod, who continued to draw it under both their names. Elrod lived his whole life in Georgia and worked for
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for 64 years before dying in his sleep at age 91 in his home near Atlanta on February 3, 2016. Prior to becoming a cartoonist, Elrod served in the
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on board the USS ''Teton'' as a
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during
World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...
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1924 births 2016 deaths American comic strip cartoonists United States Navy personnel of World War II People from Gainesville, Georgia Artists from Georgia (U.S. state) {{US-cartoonist-stub