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Chester Warren Tufts (December 12, 1925 – July 6, 1982), Chester Tufts, Social Security Number 564-20-2613, at the Social Security Death Index via GenealogyBank.com. Source gives death date only as "July 1982". best known as Warren Tufts, was an American comic strip and comic book artist-writer best known for his syndicated Western adventure strip Casey Ruggles, which ran from 1949 to 1954.
As Casey Ruggles' popularity grew, Tufts received an offer from a major television studio to produce a Casey Ruggles TV show. However, United Feature nixed the offer on the grounds that a TV show would make the strip less popular. In anger, Tufts left United Feature in 1954, and Casey Ruggles ended shortly afterward, as the replacement artist, Al Carreño, apparently could not maintain reader interest. Tufts' contract with the syndicate required that they be given first refusal on his next strip, so he created The Lone Spaceman, a science-fiction Lone Ranger parody he was sure United Feature would refuse. After the syndicate did, Tufts reconsidered the strip's value and self-syndicated it. The Lone Spaceman at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from the original on March 8, 2015. He then created, wrote, drew and self-syndicated one of the last full page comic strips, the Old West cavalry adventure Lance, which comics critic Bill Blackbeard called "the best of the page-high adventure strips undertaken after the 1930s".
He also drew an adult comic book, Jack and the Beanstalk, and wrote and illustrated a serialized story for Sports Flying magazine.
He was killed in 1982, in the crash of an airplane of his own design that he was piloting. Warren Tufts at the Lambiek Comiclopedia. Gives death date as July 6, 1982.
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Archived from the original on March 8, 2015. He was living in El Dorado County, California, at the time.
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