Warren Sattler is an American

United States

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 artist

Artist

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 and cartoonist

Cartoonist

A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing cartoons. This work is usually humorous, mainly created for entertainment, political commentary or advertising...

, who contributed work to many popular publications from the early 1960s through the 1990s.

Sattler is known as the Rich Little

Rich Little

Richard Caruthers "Rich" Little is a Canadian-American impressionist and voice actor. He has long been known throughout the world as a top impersonator of famous people, resulting in his nickname, "The Man of a Thousand Voices"....

 of comic art. A National Lampoon editor said, "We could call Warren up with an idea of a certain style of artist and he could duplicate it exactly with a mix of our humor. Once I remember we wanted a Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy

Dick Tracy is a comic strip featuring Dick Tracy, a hard-hitting, fast-shooting and intelligent police detective. Created by Chester Gould, the strip made its debut on October 4, 1931, in the Detroit Mirror. It was distributed by the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate...

comic but with Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader

Ralph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government....

 as Dick. It was great. Sattler got it right! That became our cover, 1975."

Biography

A lifelong Connecticut

Connecticut

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 resident, Warren Sattler started cartooning at an early age and was first published in a newspaper at age 15. He got his education at the Wilcox Technical School in Meriden, Connecticut

Meriden, Connecticut

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. He later taught at the Famous Artists School

Famous Artists School

Famous Artists School has offered correspondence courses in art since it was founded in 1948 in Westport, Connecticut, U.S.A. The idea was conceived by Albert Dorne as a result of a conversation with Norman Rockwell...

 from 1957 to 1962. In the 1960s, he assisted on the comic strip

Comic strip

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s Barnaby and The Jackson Twins

The Jackson Twins

The Jackson Twins was an American comic strip, created by Dick Brooks and distributed by the McNaught Syndicate...

. Sattler also drew comics that appeared in Help

Help! (magazine)

Help! was an American magazine published by James Warren. It wasHarvey Kurtzman's longest-running magazine project after leaving Mad and EC Publications, and during its five years of operation it was always chronically underfunded, yet innovative...

magazine under the direction of Harvey Kurtzman

Harvey Kurtzman

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. His own strip, Grubby, ran from 1964 to 1997.

In the 1970s, Sattler produced art for comic book

Comic book

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s, in particular Charlton Comics

Charlton Comics

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. Some titles he worked on include Billy the Kid

Billy the Kid (Charlton Comics)

Billy the Kid is a Western comic book series published by Charlton Comics, with stories of a fictional character based on the historical Billy the Kid. Taking over the numbering of a previous Western comic, Masked Raider, Billy the Kid was published from issues #9-153...

, Fightin' Army

Fightin' Army

Fightin' Army was a bimonthly war comic published by Charlton Comics from 1956–1984...

, Fightin' Marines

Fightin' Marines

Fightin' Marines was a bimonthly war comic published by St. John Publications from 1951–1953, and Charlton Comics from 1955–1984, although it was primarily a reprint title from 1978 to the end of its run...

, Ghost Manor

Ghost Manor (comics)

Ghost Manor was a horror-suspense anthology comic book series published by Charlton Comics from 1968 to 1984 . Volume one was "hosted" by the Old Witch , while volume two was hosted by Mr...

, Ghostly Haunts

Ghostly Haunts

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, and Yang. Additionally, he worked as an illustrator for Cracked magazine, National Lampoon, and Playboy

Playboy

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. Sattler created a second syndicated comic strip in 1980: Swamp Brats, a Sunday-only strip

Sunday strip

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. He ghosted

Ghostwriter

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 on such newspaper strips as Bringing Up Father

Bringing up Father

Bringing Up Father was an influential American comic strip created by cartoonist George McManus . Distributed by King Features Syndicate, it ran for 87 years, from January 12, 1913 to May 28, 2000....

, Comics for Kids and Gil Thorp

Gil Thorp

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during the 1980s and 1990s.