James Hatlo
(1898 - 1/12/1963, USA)
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James Hatlo was a sports cartoonist at The San Francisco Call-Bulletin. He had to draw a cartoon when a package of cartoons from the syndicate failed to arrive. He chose the little ironies of everyday life as his topic. The first 'They'll Do It Every Time' appeared on 5 February, 1929. For seven years, Jimmy Hatlo did the comics series for just that one paper. In 1936, King Features Syndicate gave it national distribution. It was an immediate hit.
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'They'll Do It Every Time' didn't have any central characters, but a few turned up in repeat episodes. Henry Tremblechin was a frequent victim of the daily irony. Tremblechin's young daughter, Little Iodine, was spun off into a strip of her own in 1943, and also held down a Dell comic book from 1949-62.
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Between 1953 and 1958, a weekly supplemental panel accompanied Hatlo's regular feature. This cartoon, called 'Hatlo's Inferno', depected the future torments of souls sent to Hell for committing sins. Jimmy Hatlo died 1 December, 1963.
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