

Eisner & Iger was a comic book “packager” that produced on-demand comic stories for a variety of publishers. He produced work for the Eisner & Iger agency, founded by comics legends Will Eisner and Jerry Iger. In 1939, Hanks started his two-year career as a cartoonist. In 1930 he stole all the money from Fletcher Jr.’s piggy bank and left his wife and children for good. He made money painting murals for wealthy clients, then spent all his earnings on booze. Sadly, he had grown to be a violent and abusive alcoholic. Hanks married and had four children-William, Fletcher Jr., Alma, and Douglas. Surviving drawings and assignments from Hanks’ coursework shows that the budding cartoonist had a solid understanding of anatomy and technical skill, despite the later comics he would become known for.

Evans correspondence course in cartooning.

When he was 23, his mother paid for him to take the W. According to family, young Hanks was a spoiled and indulged child who grew to be a troublemaker and bully. Fletcher Hanks was born in 1887 and raised in Oxford, MA by Rev.
