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The job only lasted a year. It was the
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until his retirement in 1971. When Hamlin retired because of failing eyesight, Dave Graue took over full-time. Graue had been assisting Hamlin since 1950, and he had been drawing the daily solo since 1966, although it was co-signed by Hamlin. The last daily signed by Hamlin appeared
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Clarence Hamlin, a dentist. Vincent began drawing at an early age; he first drew the character that became Alley Oop at age 11. Four years later, his first cartoons were published in the
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landscape of the oil fields, began musing about the dinosaurs who had once roamed through the very same territory. Hamlin also acquired a lifelong interest in paleontology through conversations with geologist acquaintances.
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in 1918. Recovering from a poison gas attack in France, Hamlin began illustrating the letters of fellow soldiers, and a newspaper man he met in the Army convinced him he could make a living from his art abilities.
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to a small syndicate, Bonnet-Brown, which launched the strip as a daily, beginning
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