Zeke Zekley, the popular cartoonist and longtime assistant on Bringing Up Father who did his own newspaper work in the 1950s and 1960s and later ran a productive custom-comics operation, died last Thursday. Mark Evanier's long and heartfelt piece to which I'll defer notes that Zekley may have been an important part of newspaper history for not getting the Bringing Up Father gig on the death of its creator George McManus, causing many cartoonists to secure their replacement before passing on rather than leaving it up to the syndicate.
