biography of Colin ALLEN (1912-?)

Birth place: Hammond, OR

Addresses: Towaco, NJ and Sarasota, FL

Profession: Cartoonist, illustrator

Studied: Cal. Sch. FA.; ASL; Pratt Inst.

Comments: Magazine and newspaper cartoons and Illustrations: Collier's; Saturday Evening Post; N.Y. Times; New Yorker Magazine, etc. Advertising cartoons and illustrations: General Electric; Gulf Oil; Standard Oil; General Mills; Ciba; Sharpe & Dohme Pharmaceuticals, etc., 1935-1946. Creator of comic What A Family!," King Features Syndicate. illus., "Pictorial Review," King Features Syndicate, 1946-1954. Experimental work in plastic, metal, wood and photography, 1954-1958.

Sources: WW59; WW47."