found: AJC Web site, viewed Mar. 8, 2016(in obituary dated Feb. 6, 2016: Jack Elrod; Jack Harrington Elrod, Jr., nationally syndicated cartoonist, died at his home in Loganville on Feb. 3; Elrod was 91; born in Gainesville on March 29, 1924; in 1950, Elrod began working as a cartoonist with Ed Dodd on the "Mark Trail" comic strip; Elrod took over the rights and sole authorship of the strip when Dodd retired in 1978; Elrod continued the strip until his 90th birthday in 2014; also created a family-style cartoon strip, "The Ryatts"; worked with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Weather Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on several campaigns promoting weather safety, fire prevention and environmental conservation)
