'Sad Sack'.
In 1937, George Baker went out to Hollywood to work for Walt Disney. For the next four years, he worked on virtually all of Disney's well-known pictures, including 'Pinocchio', 'Fantasia', 'Dumbo' and 'Bambi'. From there, he was inducted into the army in June 1941. Baker spent most of his evenings in the army drawing cartoons of army life, featuring 'Sad Sack', a bewildered recruit trying to be a soldier. In 1946, Baker moved to Los Angeles and formed Sad Sack Inc., through which he merchandised 'Sad Sack' artifacts for the next thirty years. Artists who drew comics for the 'Sad Sack' titles by Harvey Comics were Joe Dennett, Warren Kremer, Jack O'Brien, Fred Rhoads and Ken Selig.
George Baker died in 1975, a couple weeks before his 60th birthday. He was an influence on John Kricfalusi and Joe Murray.
Sad Sack returned to civilian life in 1946.
'Sad Sack'.