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Harry Lampert
Harry Lampert seen at Motor City Comic-Con 2002
Born	November 3, 1916(1916-11-03) New York
Died	November 13, 2004 (aged 88) Boca Raton, Florida
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Penciller, Inker, Adman, Bridge teacher and author
Notable works	Flash

Harry Lampert (November 3, 1916 in New York - November 13, 2004 in Boca Raton, Florida) was a cartoonist, adman and author, bridge book author and bridge teacher

He began cartooning when he was sixteen years old, and worked for the legendary Max Fleischer, inking and helping produce Betty Boop, Popeye, and Koko the Clown cartoons. Events 644 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim Caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Events 1002 - English king Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Boca Raton ("bōkə rə-tōn" is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida incorporated in May 1925 Events 644 - Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim Caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina. Year 1916 ( MCMXVI) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Events 1002 - English king Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in England, known today as the St "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Boca Raton ("bōkə rə-tōn" is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida incorporated in May 1925 The word cartoon has various meanings based on several very different forms of Visual art and Illustration. Max Fleischer ( July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was an important Austrian American pioneer in the development of the Betty Boop is an animated Cartoon character appearing in the Talkartoon and Betty Boop series of films produced by Popeye the Sailor Man is a fictional hero famous for appearing in comic strips and animated films as well as numerous TV shows Koko the Clown is an animated character created by animation pioneer Max Fleischer. While stationed at Drew Field in Tampa, FL, he created Droopy the Drew Field Mosquito which ran in the Drew Field Echoes from 1942-1944. He began drawing comic books and he is best known in that field for being the artistic co-creator of the DC Comics superhero The Flash. DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a Fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do Created in collaboration with writer Gardner Fox, the hero first appeared in Flash Comics #1 in 1940, but Lampert left the character after drawing only five stories, gravitating towards his preference of humorous work. Gardner Francis Cooper Fox (Speed Saunders was initially credited to "E Flash Comics was an anthology comic book published by All-American Publications and later National Periodicals ( DC Comics) He also drew the comic book characters "The King", "Red, White and Blue" and "The Atom". Lampert later went on to draw gag cartoons for Time Magazine, The New York Times, Esquire, and The Saturday Evening Post. Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and Esquire is a Men's magazine by the Hearst Corporation with a strong literary tradition The Saturday Evening Post was a weekly Magazine published in the United States from August 4, 1821 to February 8, He was also an instructor for the New York School of Visual Arts and founded the Lampert Agency, an advertising company which produced award-winning ads for clients such as Olympic Airways, Seagram, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The City of New York The School of Visual Arts ( SVA) is an Art school in Manhattan New York City and is one of the nation's leading independent Colleges of art and Olympic Airlines (Ολυμπιακές Αερογραμμές Olympiakés Aerogrammés - OA is the Flag carrier Airline of Greece, based For the rapper Seagram, see Seagram Miller The Seagram Company Ltd The United States Virgin Islands is a group of Islands in the Caribbean that are an Insular area of the United States.

After his retirement in 1976, Lampert went on to write many instructional books on contract bridge. Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking Card game of skill and chance (the relative proportions depending His book The Fun Way to Serious Bridge has been described as "the bible of that game" and Lampert spent years giving classes and working the cruise ship circuit teaching bridge to players. Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin In the mid 1990s, Lampert became active in the comic book convention circuit, selling sketches and autographs and speaking about his famous comic book creation. A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative A sketch (from Ancient Greek σχέδιος - schedios “‘made suddenly off-hand’” from σχεδιάζω - schediazo “‘to do a An autograph is a Document written entirely in the handwriting of its Author, as opposed to a typeset document or

Lampert died on November 13, 2004 of complications from prostate cancer.

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