Dan DeCarlo - Artist Info

About Dan DeCarlo

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Dan De Carlo
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    The following is from the artist's obituary in the New York Times, December 23, 2001

    Dan DeCarlo, Archie Artist and Creator of Josie and the Pussycats, Is Dead at 82
    By ERIC NASH

    Dan DeCarlo, a top cartoonist for Archie Comics for more than 40 years and a creator of the characters Josie and the Pussycats and Sabrina the teenage witch, died on Tuesday in New Rochelle, N.Y. He was 82, and lived in Scarsdale, N.Y.

    The cause was pneumonia, said his wife, Josie.

    Mr. DeCarlo defined the look of the prototypical American teenagers Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead and their friends at Riverdale High after taking over as chief artist at the comic book company in 1975, when the characters' creator, Bob Montana, died....

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