Coulton Waugh

[1][2] Born in Cornwall, England, in 1896,[3] in 1907 his family moved to the United States, and Waugh was enrolled at New York's Art Students League where he studied with George Bridgman, Frank Dumond and John Carlson.

One of his Cape Cod maps was detailed by Laura Guadnazno in the Provincetown Banner: Created by Milton Caniff, Dickie Dare began 31 July 1933.

In 1944, when Waugh left the strip to work on Hank (1945), his wife and assistant, Odin Burvik, took over Dickie Dare in 1944–47, followed by Fran Matera (1948–49).

Between his stints on Dickie Dare, Waugh created his own short-lived but notable strip, Hank, which began 30 April 1945 in the New York newspaper PM.

He was also a teacher at Orange County Community College in Newburgh, and was curator of the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York.

Coulton Waugh's A Map of Cape Cod (1926), a hand-coloured print.
The Cape Cod map that is described as "one of the most decorative ever prepared." Image owned by Maps of Antiquity, Chatham, MA.
In 1945, Waugh employed a novel art approach on his strip Hank . According to Waugh, Hank was also "a deliberate attempt to work in the field of social usefulness." [ 4 ]