Zeke Zekley

Emil Samuel "Zeke" Zekley (February 11, 1915 – April 28, 2005) was an American cartoonist who worked on several comic strips, notably George McManus's Bringing Up Father.

He moved to California in 1935 and began work with Disney, but after two weeks he was unemployed when the studio closed down for the summer.

[1] Zekley was broke and in dire straits in 1935 when Charles McManus, the brother of George McManus, saw him drawing on a restaurant tablecloth, liked what he saw and decided to introduce Zekley to his brother, kicking off a series of events described by TV writer-producer Mark Evanier: In the 1930s, Zekley was initially paid $50 a week, doing lettering and inking, but he soon began collaborating with McManus on both the penciled art and the writing.

During his two decades with McManus, Zekley thought highly of the cartoonist, calling him "my closest pal, mentor, confidant, even surrogate father."

Tab Hunter, in The Tab Hunter Show (1960–61), portrayed Paul Morgan, a 29-year-old cartoonist whose comic strip Bachelor at Large profiled his amorous adventures around Malibu, and Zekley drew the comic strips seen on camera.