Jack Sparling
Birth name	John Edmond Sparling
Born	June 21, 1916 Winipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Died	1997
Nationality	Naturalized American (immigrated Canadian)
Area(s)	Artist
Notable works	Hap Hopper, Claire Voyant, Tiger Girl

John Edmond "Jack" Sparling (June 21, 1916 - 1997) was a Canadian - American comics artist. June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... Year 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... Motto: Unum Cum Virtute Multorum (One With the Strength of Many) Coordinates: Country Canada Province Manitoba Region Winnipeg Capital Region Established, 1738 (Fort Rouge) Incorporated 1873 (City of Winnipeg) City Mayor Sam Katz Governing Body Winnipeg City Council MPs List of MPs MLAs List of MLAs Area    - City 465. ... Motto: Gloriosus et Liber (Latin: Glorious and free) Official languages English and French, per mandate of the Constitution Act 1982 Capital Winnipeg Largest city Winnipeg Lieutenant-Governor John Harvard Premier Gary Doer (NDP) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 14 6 Area Total  - Land  - Water  (% of total)  Ranked 8th 647... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_the_United_States. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Canada. ... June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... Year 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A comics artist is an artist working within the comics medium. ...

Sparling was born in Winipeg, Manitoba, but moved to the United States as a child. He received his early arts training at the Arts and Crafts Club in New Orleans, and later attended the Corcoran School of Art. He worked briefly as a gag cartoonist for the New Orleans Item-Tribune. Motto: Unum Cum Virtute Multorum (One With the Strength of Many) Coordinates: Country Canada Province Manitoba Region Winnipeg Capital Region Established, 1738 (Fort Rouge) Incorporated 1873 (City of Winnipeg) City Mayor Sam Katz Governing Body Winnipeg City Council MPs List of MPs MLAs List of MLAs Area    - City 465. ... Motto: Gloriosus et Liber (Latin: Glorious and free) Official languages English and French, per mandate of the Constitution Act 1982 Capital Winnipeg Largest city Winnipeg Lieutenant-Governor John Harvard Premier Gary Doer (NDP) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 14 6 Area Total  - Land  - Water  (% of total)  Ranked 8th 647... New Orleans is the largest city in the state of Louisiana, United States of America. ... The Corcoran College of Art + Design, founded in 1890, is the only professional college of art and design in Washington, DC. The school is affilliated with the Corcoran Gallery of Art. ...

In 1941 Sparling, along with writers Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, created the comic strip Hap Hopper, Washington Correspondent. The strip premiered in 1939; Sparling drew the strip until 1943, when he was succeeded by Al Plastino. Drew Pearson (13 December 1897 - 1969), born in Evanson, Illinois was an American journalist. ... Robert S. Allen was a well known Washington D.C. correspondent and Washington bureau chief for The Christian Science Monitor. ... Al Plastino (1921- ) is an American comic book artist best known as one of the most prolific Superman artists of the 1950s, along with his DC Comics colleague Wayne Boring. ...

Sparling's next comic strip was Claire Voyant, which premiered May 10, 1943, in the New York PM. The strip ran until 1948. Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... PM was a leftist daily newspaper in New York City launched in June 1940, bankrolled by eccentric Chicago millionaire Marshall Field III. The paper employed some radical journalists, among them some known members of the Communist Party. ...

During the 1950s, '60s, and '70s Sparling provided art for a variety of publishers, including Harvey Comics (the Pirana), Charlton Comics (adaptations of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman), DC Comics (Challengers of the Unknown, Secret Six, Eclipso) and Marvel Comics (Captain America). Sparling also worked for Classics Illustrated, drawing adaptations of Robin Hood and Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Casper the Friendly Ghost in Theres Good Boos To-Night (1948). ... Big C logo, used from Sept. ... Part of The Bionic series The Six Million Dollar Man was an American television series about a cyborg working for a U.S. secret service called OSI. The show was based on the novel Cyborg by Martin Caidin, and aired on the ABC network from 1973 to 1978. ... Part of The Bionic series The Bionic Woman was a television series which spun off from The Six Million Dollar Man. ... DC Comics is one of the largest American companies in comic book and related media publishing. ... Cover to Challengers of the Unknown #7, 1959. ... This article is about the historical Secret Six. ... Eclipso is a fictional character, a villain in the DC Comics Universe. ... Marvel Comics is an American comic book line published by Marvel Publishing, Inc. ... Captain America is also the name of a song by Jimmy Buffet. ... Classics Illustrated were comic book adaptations from classic literature, a series that Russian-born Albert Lewis Kanter (1897-1973) began in 1941 for Elliot Publishing. ... Robin Hood memorial statue in Nottingham. ... Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910),[1] better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, writer, and lecturer. ...

Sparling was still active in the 1980s, working primarily on titles for Western Publishing. For Western's Gold Key Comics, Sparling illustrated comic book adaptations of the television series Family Affair and The Outer Limits. He also created, with Jerry Siegel, the superhero Tiger Girl. This is a page about the company Western Publishing. ... Gold Key Comics was an imprint of Western Publishing cteated for comic books distributed to newstands. ... // Family Affair Family Affair was a situation comedy television series that aired on CBS from September 12, 1966 to September 9, 1971. ... The Outer Limits is a American television series. ... Jerome (Jerry) Siegel (October 17, 1914 - January 28, 1996) was the co-creator of Superman, the first of the great comic book heroes and one of the most recognizable fictional characters from the 20th century. ...

External links

• Jack Sparling at Lambiek.net