Known as a "jack-of-all-trades cartoonist", Gill Fox had a long career that included working with the first generation of comic-book artists on artwork and script writing for "Plastic Man" , "Hi and Lois", and "Spirit". From 1940 to 1943, he was an editor-writer and artist for Quality Comics. He also drew "Torchy", the comic book created by Bill Ward, and from 1962 to 1982, Fox wrote and did the drawing of the cartoon, "Side Glances".

In Fairfield, Connecticut where he lived, he taught at Fairfield University and told his students that the business of cartooning "could be subdivided into nine parts---syndicated strips, comic books, gag panels, advertising, illustration, animation, political cartooning, caricature and sports---and tha...