Dave Breger, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Dave Breger

cartoonist

Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1908

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 16-Jan-1970

Profession: screenwriter, cartoonist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Dave Breger

  • Irving David Breger (April 15, 1908 – January 16, 1970) was an American cartoonist who created the syndicated Mister Breger (1945–1970), a gag panel series and Sunday comic strip known earlier as Private Breger and G.I.
  • Joe.
  • The series led to widespread usage of the term "G.I.
  • Joe" during World War II and later.
  • Dave Breger was his signature and the byline on his books.
  • During World War II, his cartoons were signed Sgt.
  • Dave Breger. Growing up in Chicago, where he was born of native Russian parents, butcher Benjamin Breger and Sophie Passin Breger, only a few weeks after they arrived in the United States from Ukraine.
  • As a youth, Breger had encounters with the local gangsters while working at his father's sausage factory.
  • In 1926, he acquired his high school diploma from Crane Technical School, where he drew cartoons signed Irving Breger for the school paper.
  • He studied architectural engineering at the University of Illinois and then transferred to Northwestern University, where he edited the campus humor magazine, Purple Parrot, while studying pre-med and psychology.
  • He had no schooling in art or cartooning, and his college cartoons were drawn in a style similar to John Held, Jr.Graduating from Northwestern in 1931 with a degree in abnormal psychology, he spent a year traveling the world, visiting Russia and Africa; during that period he sold cartoons to the German magazine, Lustige Blätter.
  • He returned to Chicago and the sausage stockyard, rising to the position of office manager of his father's firm, where he devised the company slogan, "Our Wurst Is the Best".
  • His first marriage, with fashion model Evelyn Breger, lasted five years.

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