Terence "Terry" Wakefield had one great advantage: his father, George Wakefield, was one of the top comic artists of the golden age. George Wakefield's speciality was drawing strip cartoon adventures of cinema stars, an ability he passed on to young Terence. After his father's apprenticeship, Terence Wakefield began to work on his own in 1927. He took over the 'Charlie Chaplin' and 'Laurel and Hardy' strips in Amalgamated's Film Fun in April, 1938, when his father retired. He retired from Amalgamated Press in 1959, after 32 years with the firm.
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