Tom Wilson Snr, the creator of the hard-luck comic strip character Ziggy, has died aged 80.
Tom Wilson Jnr, who took over the comic in 1987, said his father died of pneumonia at a Cincinnati hospital.
Wilson was an artist at a greetings card company in Cleveland for more than 35 years and first published Ziggy in a 1969 cartoon collection, When You're Not Around.
Ziggy was launched in 15 newspapers in 1971 and now appears in more than 500 daily and Sunday newspapers.
Tom Wilson Jnr said the name Ziggy was derived from his father's school experience of being the last alphabetically.
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