Bill Holman (March 22, 1903 – February 27, 1987) was an American cartoonist who drew the classic comic stripSmokey Stover from 1935 until he retired in 1973. Distributed through the Chicago Tribune, it had the longest run of any strip in the screwball genre. Holman signed some strips with the pseudonym Scat H. He once described himself as "always inclined to humor and acting silly."
Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Holman lived as a child in Nappanee, Indiana, a town where six successful cartoonists lived when they were children. Holman's father died when he was young. He began drawing when he was 12 years old.
While working part-time at Nappanee's local five and dime store, he developed an interest in art as a career and sent away for the Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning correspondence course. Dropping out of high school, he was 15 when he moved with his mother to Chicago. There he took night courses at the Academy of Fine Arts and learned more about cartooning from Carl Ed.
Although he has performed and recorded as a tenor saxophonist, Holman is best known as an arranger. Through his acquaintance with Gene Roland, Holman was auditioned by Stan Kenton and hired as a tenor sax player around 1951.
Kenton was apparently attracted to Holman's ability to integrate counterpoint and dissonance in subtle yet distinctive ways, and for his knack for making the usually unswinging Kenton band "swing" in its own particular fashion. Holman became Kenton's chief arranger, and wrote much of Kenton's 1950s repertoire; including one of Kenton's finest albums, Contemporary Concepts. He continued to write for Kenton, on and off, throughout the 1960s and 70s.
In addition to his work for Kenton, Holman has provided charts for Woody Herman, Doc Severinsen, Buddy Rich, Terry Gibbs, Count Basie, Harry James, Gerry Mulligan's Concert Jazz Band and others. He formed his own California-based band in 1975 and continues to perform with it in the U.S. and worldwide. His 1997 recording Brilliant Corners/The Music of Thelonious Monk won a Grammy award.
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Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist for Public Citizen who helped the lawmakers write the bill being introduced Tuesday, said he was concerned that fraudulent misrepresentation law only ...
Elby J. Hutto. Elby J ... 12, 1934, to J.B ... Watkins, Doyle Holman, Donnie Gardner, or Gary Crozier with his children and grandchildren ... Honorary pallbearers are John Nelson, Doyle Holman, Gary Crozier, George Hydrick, Donnie Gardner, and Bill Schaeffer ... ....
Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) — to the DHS appropriations bill for ... The measure utilizes the Holman rule, which allows lawmakers to reduce the salaries of specific federal employees in appropriations bills.
Listening to Alex Holman wax lyrical about the music of the Boston Typewriter Orchestra, there's a temptation to tilt away, eyes narrowing, and wonder, "Is this guy for real?" But Holman, a Bill...
UnionCEOSteve Holman testified in the bill’s hearings that the county’s public health rankings — with an average life expectancy ranking 68th out of 92 counties in the state — should be a “call to action” to do something “big and bold.”.
MacDonald and Holman both were charged with conducting a criminal enterprise and false pretenses for fraudulently billing Detroit $1.1 million for backfill they received for free and for using ...
MOSCOW — MoscowMiddle SchoolPrincipalBill Holman’s life is like a giant circle that led him to end up in the same place he started, and he couldn’t be more grateful ... .
MoscowMiddle SchoolPrincipalBill Holman’s life is like a giant circle that led him to end up in the same place he started, and he couldn’t be more grateful ... .
In 1975, Holman launched the Bill Holman Band but recording was elusive; the recording of The Bill Holman Band in 1987 was his first release as a leader in 27 years ... for the Bill Holman Band (1997).
A bill that could effectively ban TikTok in the United States cleared the U.S ... "It's our livelihoods," Holman said ... Holman, Scott and Perkins said they would invest more energy into Instagram and Facebook if the House bill were to be signed into law.
Chicago Tribune
14 Nov 2024
Chicago Tribune
14 Nov 2024