Wheelan, Edgar Stowe, 1888-1966

found: LC database, 12-2-94(hdg.: Wheelan, Edgar Stowe, 1888- ; usage: Ed Wheelan)

found: Horn, M. World ency. of comics, 1976:p. 697 (Wheelan, Edgar, 1888-1966; Am. cartoonist; Ed Wheelan)

found: Lambiek comiclopedia website, viewed June 24, 2009(Edgar Wheelan (1888 - 1966, USA); graduated from Cornell University in 1911; worked for the San Francisco Examiner, & later at the New York American; in 1918, went to work for the newspapers of William Randolph Hearst, & created the strip "Midget Movies"; fell out with Hearst in 1920; then joined the George Matthew Adams Service, where he created "Minute Movies" from the early 1920s to 1935; in 1935, continued to work with one of the main characters of "Minute Movies" in a solo strip, called "Roy McCoy"; worked with Bill Walsh at the end of the 1930s, drew "Big Top", a strip about a circus; then headed tor Hollywood and upon his return, he was assigned by DC Comics to revive "Minute Movies" in their Flash Comics comic book, which he did from issues 1 through 59; after 1948 left the comics field & continued to do artwork, especially clown paintings, until his health forced him to retire)