I was born on April 9th, 1926, in Chicago, Illinois to Glenn and Grace Hefner. As a child, I attended Sayre Elementary School and Steinmetz High on the West Side of Chicago. I was just your run of the mill average joe who was getting by in school. Following graduation from high school in January 1944, I joined the US Army, serving as an Infantry Clerk and drawing cartoons for various Army newspapers.
I was discharged from the service in 1946. I began taking art classes (anatomy, of course) at the Chicago Art Institute, enrolling that fall at the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana.
I received his bachelor's degree in two and a half years by doubling up on classes while drawing cartoons for the Daily Illinois and editing the campus humor magazine Shaft, where I initially introduced a new feature entitled "Coed of the Month" (very clever!).
After leaving the University of Illinois, I worked as an assistant personnel manager for the Chicago Cartoon Company in 1949, and as an advertising copywriter for the Carson, Pirie, Scott department store in 1950.Soon after that I started the magazine and thats it.
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