'The Toodles' (8 October 1960).
Pete Winter is an American comic artist, best-known for being the final artist to draw the newspaper comic 'The Toodles', scripted by Betsy and Stanley Baer. He continued the series from 1959 until its final episode in 1961.
Life and career
Barely anything is known about Pete Winter's life and graphic career. In 1959, he was assigned to continue the newspaper series 'The Toodles', also known as 'The Toodle Family'. It had been created by the grocer couple Betsy and Stanley Bear in 1941. The series was distributed by The Chicago Sun Times and the Marshall Field Syndicate to about 300 newspapers. Originally a gag comic, 'The Toodles' eventually evolved into a soap opera about two parents and their twin children. The original artist was Rod Ruth. Cliff Voorhees has also drawn the comic for a couple of years in the second half of the 1950s, presumably as a ghost artist for Ruth in the period prior to Winter's tenure. Somewhere halfway 1959, Winter succeeded Ruth as the main artist behind 'The Toodle Family'. He continued the strip until the end of its run on 31 December 1961.
No further comics or illustration work by Pete Winter is known.
'The Toodles' (19 November 1959).