Editing Jack Cole (artist) (section)

===''Betsy and Me''===
{{main article|Betsy and Me}}
In 1958, Cole created his own daily newspaper [[comic strip]], ''Betsy and Me'', which he sold to the [[Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate]].<ref name=toonopedia>[http://toonopedia.com/betsynme.htm ''Betsy and Me''] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]].  {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20240527115035/https://www.webcitation.org/6b6ZBrhVh?url=http://toonopedia.com/betsynme.htm |date=May 27, 2024 }} from the original on August 27, 2015.</ref> The strip began on May 26 and chronicled the domestic adventures of nebbishy Chester Tibbet as narrator, his wife Betsy, and their 5-year-old genius son, Farley.<ref name=toonopedia /> For it, Cole utilized "a simplified style," historian [[Ron Goulart]] wrote, "reminiscent of the drawing in the [[United Productions of America|UPA]] animated cartoons."<ref name=hogans-goulart>{{cite news | url = http://cartoonician.com/jack-and-betsy-and-me/ | title = Jack and Betsy and Me | author-link = Ron Goulart | first = Ron | last = Goulart | work = Hogan's Alley | publisher = Bull Moose Publishing | date = May 18, 2012 | access-date = 2013-12-29 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131013145642/http://cartoonician.com/jack-and-betsy-and-me/ | archive-date = October 13, 2013 | url-status = dead }}</ref> ''Betsy and Me'' ran for {{frac|2|1|2}} months before Cole's self-inflicted death; his last daily was published on September 6 and his last Sunday on September 14. In the final Cole daily, Betsy and Chester are seen signing up for a brand-new tract house in Sunken Hills.<ref name=hogans-goulart /> To continue the strip, the syndicate hired advertising artist Dwight Parks, who had been trying to sell his own strip about a philosophical hobo.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Apeldoorn|first=Ger|journal=Hogan's Alley| title=Jack and Betsy and Me|date=January 2010|issue=17}}</ref> <!--The last Sunday by Parks was dated December 21, 1958.<ref>''Betsy and Me", December 21, 1958, reprinted at {{cite web|last=Apeldoorn|first=Ger|title=Last Betsy|url=http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lBp6zXnn7nQ/UrtM46JJznI/AAAAAAABJOE/IJgi10xSK2c/s1600/Betsy-and-Me-1958-12-21.jpg}}</ref>-->