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Lee Ames passes at age 90

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June 7, 2011

Sad news from Mike Lynch:

Veteran cartoonist, animator and creator of the popular DRAW 50 how-to-draw cartoon book series Lee Ames died in a Huntington, NY nursing home last week. He was 90 years old. The cause was congestive heart failure.

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#1 Darryl Heine
June/7/2011
@ 3:56 pm

I remember his “Draw 50 Famous Cartoons” book, which had Hanna-Barbera characters and comic strip characters, but no Peanuts characters.

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