Nicholas P. Dallis

Nicholas Peter " Nick" Dallis (* December 15, 1911 in New York City; † 6 July 1991) was an American psychiatrist and comic book writer.

Life and work

Growing up on Long Iceland, Dallis attended Washington & Jefferson College, where he graduated in 1933. After obtaining a medical degree at Temple University in Philadelphia in 1938 and married a nurse Sarah Luddy, Dallis was after 1945 as a practicing psychiatrist in Toledo, Ohio, works.

At that time, the journalist and cartoonist Allen Saunders was invited by the local mental health center. In his biography, he remembered that Dallis opposite told him to want to write a comic book about the history of medicine. Saunders had replied to him that this laudable plan would never work out. The audience wants to entertain - not to be taught. But a story about a handsome doctor, the tools with a patient in his entanglements could be a success.

Dallis 's first daily strip was drawn by Marvin Bradley comic strip Rex Morgan, MD, which was started in 1948. Under the pseudonym Paul Nichols was created in collaboration with the artist Dan Heilman the Judge Parker series, which started in 1952. Background of this comic series was his increasing involvement with the psychiatric evaluation and assessment of young offenders in cooperation with the juvenile court. Both created in the style of soap operas Strips in the tradition of the works of Saunders, but in contrast to the Mary Worth were here male protagonists in the center of the stories, who advised their clients or patients professionally or personally intervened to deal with their problems. Judge Parker has received over the years of its appearance in 175 newspapers a number of awards, such as Lena Warner Prize by the University of Tennessee awarded the for exceptional contributions to the health of the nation, and the National Academy of Nursing 's Media Award innovation. In 1958, he took leave of his final career as a physician, moved to Phoenix, Arizona, and devoted himself exclusively to the texts and the conception of comics. The subscribed by Alex Kotzky comic strip Apartment 3 -G, in which three professionally successful young ladies shared a Manhattan apartment, debuted in May 1961.

After Woody Wilson's information Dallis has texted in the 40 years of his work as an author in 1095 Comic Strips year.

On July 6, 1991 Dallis died. Then Kotzky also took over the task author at Apartment 3-G and put the strip continued until his own death in 1996. Rex Morgan and Judge Parker are continued until today, with the present author Woody Wilson has already been integrated in his lifetime Dallis ' by him into the team.