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Noel Sickles (Noel Douglas Sickles) was born on 24 January, 1910 in Chillicothe, Ohio, is an American cartoonist, 1910–1982. Discover Noel Sickles's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

Popular As Noel Douglas Sickles
Occupation Cartoonist
Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 24 January 1910
Birthday 24 January
Birthplace Chillicothe, Ohio
Date of death 3 October, 1982
Died Place Tucson, Arizona
Nationality United States

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1910

Noel Douglas Sickles (January 24, 1910 – October 3, 1982) was an American commercial illustrator and cartoonist, best known for the comic strip Scorchy Smith.

Sickles was born in Chillicothe, Ohio.

1920

Largely self-taught, his career began as a political cartoonist for the Ohio State Journal in the late 1920s.

At that time he met and shared a studio with cartoonist Milton Caniff, then working for the Columbus Dispatch.

1930

The series, which started in 1930, was heavily influenced by Roy Crane’s adventure strip Wash Tubbs.

1933

Sickles followed Caniff, creator of the Terry and the Pirates comic strip, to New York City in 1933, where both men initially worked as staff artists for the Associated Press.

Sickles was assigned to the action/adventure comic Scorchy Smith, whose creator, John Terry, was suffering from tuberculosis.

Loosely modeled on Charles Lindbergh, Scorchy was a pilot-for-hire who flew into numerous high-octane globe-trotting adventures.

1934

Sickles initially illustrated the strip as a ghost artist, but he signed his own name after Terry's 1934 death.

Sickles' artwork was much admired and proved highly influential to other comic strip artists.

His compositions were cinematic in style, and he had a brisk, impressionistic style of inking that he referred to as "chiaroscuro."

Sickles also was adept in his application of the shading medium Zipatone.

Sickles and Caniff worked together for two years, sometimes writing and drawing each other's strips.

Caniff acknowledged being heavily influenced by Sickles.

Acknowledging Sickles' influence on his own work, cartoonist Alex Toth described him as an "illustrator/reporter" who "didn't exaggerate. He didn't cartoon things. He played it straight!"

John Romita also recognized the importance of Sickle's work: "Toth loosened everybody up and got everybody wide awake. They all discovered Scorchy Smith. They discovered Sickles because Toth maybe had 300 dailies of Noel Sickles in a stack of Photostats. People were copying from that stack of Photostats, and handing them out to each other. The whole industry was using those Scorchy Smith dailies. And that’s when I found out that Caniff and Sickles had developed that style together. We all sprang from that. I think it lit a fire under the whole industry."

1936

Sickles asked the Associated Press for a salary raise in 1936, and when he was turned down, he quit, becoming a successful commercial illustrator.

He also ghosted the daily strip The Adventures of Patsy, but otherwise the rest of his career was devoted to magazine illustration.

For Life, he illustrated the original publications of The Old Man and the Sea and The Bridges at Toko-Ri.

1960

He received the National Cartoonists Society's Advertising and Illustration Award for 1960 and 1962.

1970

His Scorchy Smith strips were reprinted in Famous Funnies and in two collections published by Nostalgia Press in the 1970s.

The end of his run was reprinted in Big Fun Comics (published by American Comic Archive) which also published Bert Christman's run on the strip.

1982

Sickles died in Tucson, Arizona, on October 3, 1982.

Sickles was interred in Grandview Cemetery, Chillicothe, Ross County, Ohio.

1983

In 1983, Sickles was posthumously inducted into the Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame.

2008

In 2008 IDW Publishing published Scorchy Smith and the Art of Noel Sickles, which reprints the complete 1933–36 run of Scorchy Smith by Sickles.

ISBN 1-60010-206-9 He received the Inkpot Award in 1976.