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Don Sherwood (cartoonist)
thumbDon Sherwood was an American cartoonist and illustrator who created ''Dan Flagg'', the first nationally syndicated comic strip to feature a U.S. Marine.
== Early life and career ==
Don Sherwood, a native of rural New York, turned a childhood love of drawing into a six-decade career as a cartoonist and illustrator. Born on September 12, 1930, Sherwood quickly was enthralled by radio and movie entertainment, and the adventures of heroes such as the Lone Ranger and Hopalong Cassidy fueled his artistic imagination. As a teenager, Sherwood sent samples of his art to Chester Gould, the creator of ''Dick Tracy''. Gould was impressed and wrote back, telling Sherwood that he had talent and encouraging him to move to Gould's city of Chicago to study the craft. Sherwood took the advice, leaving high school and enrolling at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. While in Chicago, Sherwood visited Gould regularly to observe his cartooning habits and worked as a copy boy at the ''Chicago Daily News''.
Also at that time, Sherwood enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves. He was called into active duty and fought with the First Marine Division in the Korean War, spending 18 months in combat operations in the Korean mountainside. The experience had a transformative effect on Sherwood, who developed a deep respect and appreciation for the Corps and its values. Upon returning to the United States, Sherwood moved to New York and resumed his young cartooning career by working as a bylined staff artist for the ''New York Mirror'', as an illustrator on the comic strips ''Cotton Woods'' and ''Will Chance'', and then as an assistant for George Wunder on the adventure strip ''Terry and the Pirates''. However, he longed to create a strip of his own and to showcase the bravery of the United States Marines. In 1963, at the age of 32, Sherwood did just that, launching ''Dan Flagg''. The strip, featuring a Marine hero, was an instant success, appearing in 400 newspapers and in most major metropolitan markets, including the ''New York Daily News'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', the ''Chicago Tribune'' and the ''Washington Post''.
The creation of ''Dan Flagg'' launched Sherwood forward in his profession. He was invited to lunch with President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White House, joining four other famed military cartoonists (Milton Caniff, Mort Walker, Bill Mauldin and George Wunder). He was a presenter at the 1964 World's Fair in New York, and "Dan Flagg Day" ceremonies were held in New York City and Philadelphia. Sherwood researched his strip exhaustively, visiting Marine installations, talking to recruits and generals, and studying the Corps and the subjects of planned storylines. As a result, Sherwood was commended for the authenticity of his artwork (after one strip contained a drawing of the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi, India, Sherwood received a letter from the architect of the building, Edward Durell Stone, praising its accuracy) and for the timeliness of his storylines (after one adventure involving Cuban relations, a group seeking to oust Fidel Castro wrote to Sherwood to ask for Dan Flagg's cooperation). Sherwood consistently appeared on behalf of the Marine Corps, with whom he shared a mutual respect; the Marine Corps Commandant, David Shoup, met with Sherwood and called him "a master of his art." As ''Dan Flagg'' continued to establish its place in newspapers in the mid-1960s, Sherwood was approached by Universal Studios about having the Marine hero appear in another medium—television. Sherwood had modeled Dan Flagg after his movie hero, Robert Taylor. Taylor agreed to star as Dan Flagg in the proposed television series and visited Sherwood at his home in Oneonta, New York, appearing at the city's "Dan Flagg Day" ceremony. However, with war escalating in Vietnam, public sentiment for military-themed entertainment was turning. A ''Dan Flagg'' television deal was not finalized, and the Marine legend retired from active duty.

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