Joe Martin (cartoonist)
Joe Martin is an American cartoonist.
Biography
Joe Martin was born in the mid 1940s on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. When he was 16 years old, he was married. By the time he was 20 years old, he had four children, but he also got a divorce. He then met his current wife, Marie, and they have been married for 43 years as of 2015. He also had two cats named Fluffy and Snuggles. Martin formerly lived in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin with his wife and five children, then moved to the Cape Fear area of North Carolina.Career
In 1976, Martin debuted his first comic strip, named Tucker, although it would only last for two years. Tucker emulated Martin's own beginning of his career by making it about a man who runs an employment agency. Martin has been able to accumulate about 1300 jokes yearly, and he has over 33,000 published since 1978. In 1998, it was common to find Martin's comic strip, Mr. Boffo, appear in the Washington Post.Cartoons
Martin is the creator of comic strips "Mister Boffo", "Porterfield", "Willy 'N Ethel", "Cats With Hands", and 25 other comic series. He is also the author of How to Hang a Spoon. Willy 'N Ethel, Martin's longest running strip, was able to celebrate its twentieth anniversary in March 2001, in addition to his cartooning career, Martin wrote for the comedy TV series, E/R.In 2000, he was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "World's Most Prolific Cartoonist."