DeCarlo’s twin sons also worked for the company in the 1980s but both preceded their father in death Dan Jr. Not only did DeCarlo name Josie after his wife, but her iconic hairstyle from the 1960s and her cat suit costume for the band came from Josie DeCarlo as well. Valerie, one of the members of the Pussycats, became the first African American character in Archie comics history (predating Chuck Clayton and his father by a couple of years), as well as the first African American character featured in Saturday Morning cartoons. The Josie series began as She’s Josie before being renamed Josie, and finally landing on Josie and the Pussycats in 1969. DeCarlo is also the creator of Josie and the Pussycats, and co-creator of Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Cheryl Blossom. He established Betty’s iconic ponytail and is largely credited with the “house style” of the Archie characters that persisted until the end of the original run in 2016.
When he was later hired on to work on Archie, he was allowed to adapt the series to his style. After his time abroad, he met his wife Josie Dumont, and began working freelance for a number of companies including Humorama magazines as well as several comic books with Stan Lee. He spent part of his time in the service painting company mascots on the nose of planes as well as working on a weekly military comic strip. While attending The Art Students League of New York with hopes of pursuing a career as an illustrator, he was drafted to serve in World War II. “These iconic characters are an important part of our popular culture history and continue to resonate with audiences today.”ĭan DeCarlo was born in 1919 in New Rochelle, NY. DeCarlo’s granddaughters Jessica and Christie DeCarlo for donating this wonderful collection, as well as Bill Morrison, who was instrumental in preserving the materials and arranging for the collection to come to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum,” said Jenny Robb, head curator. The collection also contains original drawings of various Archie characters as well as some of DeCarlo’s early pin-up work from Humorama magazine.
Most of the stories were printed in the 1980s and early 1990s, with some having been drawn by his twin sons Dan and James. Mechanical reproduction of “Archie” watercolor by Dan DeCarlo, 2001ĬOLUMBUS, OH – We are delighted to announce the acquisition of the Dan DeCarlo Collection, which includes dozens of complete original Archie Comics stories from Betty and Me, Betty & Veronica, Veronica, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, Cheryl Blossom, and Jughead among others.
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