Henry Boltinoff

• Born — 19 February 1914 • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Died — 26 April 2001 • Place of death — Lake Worth, Florida, U.S. • Art — y • Notable Works — Hocus-Focus Stoker the Broker National Periodicals humor features • Awards — National Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Book Award, 1970 NCS Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award, 1981 Inkpot Award, 2001

Boltinoff started doing magazine cartoons in the early forties. He contributed to all of the mid range magazines, such as Look, Collier's, The Saturday Evening Post, True, Liberty, The American Legion', Sunday newspaper magazines such as This Week', Today, The American Weekly, Parade and almost every other general interest magazine, from The Progressive Farmer to The Ford Times. He also sold a large number of cartoons to special cartoon magazines, such as 1000 Jokes and Judge and Gags. For Judge he did a monthly one page feature identifying character types between 1944 and 1947 and for King Features' Pictorial Review he had a regular page of gags under the title "Gags and Gals". All in all he was one of the best selling cartoonists in the 1940s and into the 1950s. Even while doing his filler strips for DC, his cartoons kept appearing in magazines such as Boy's Life and many of the low rent Humorama titles.

Boltinoff was a regular contributor to This and That (a daily cartoon panel from the George Matthew Adams syndicate), Nubbin (1970 - 1986), This Funny World (a daily cartoon panel from the McNaught syndicate) and Laff-A-Day (a daily cartoon panel from King Features). He also had his own panels: Woody Forrest (1960), Stoker the Broker (1960), and Hocus-Focus through 2001. Hocus-Focus may have been Boltinoff's best-known work. The King Features Syndicate feature, which was started c. 1965 by Harold Kaufmann, includes two similar panels with six differences between them. It continues to run in over 300 newspapers.

• All Funny Comics #1–23 (Dover and Clover) (1943–1948) • The Best of DC #45 (1984) • Binky #77 (1971) • Binky's Buddies #11–12 (1970) • Date with Debbi #3–5, 14 (1969–1971) • Detective Comics #158, 163, 165, 171 (Dover and Clover) (1950–1951) • More Fun Comics #94–100, 102–127 (Dover and Clover) (1943–1947) • Star Spangled Comics #23, 24, 96 (1943–1949) • Superboy #83 (1960) • Swing with Scooter #17–18, 29, 31 (1969–1970) • World's Best Comics #1 (1941) • World's Finest Comics #2–4, 12, 67 (1941–1953)

Henry Boltinoff is recorded as having received Inkpot Award and Silver Reuben Humor Comic Books Award.