![]() ![]() It was there that I decided I wanted to be a newspaper comic strip artist, and drew everything in sight, other kids, priests, nuns, gardens, warplanes, and studied hard to grasp anatomy and how things were constructed. The museum later became the San Francisco Modern Museum.Īt age 10, 1942, at the beginning of WWII, my brother and I were sent off to boarding school. I think I only went to the classes 6 or 8 times a dime was hard to come by for my mother. I attended grammar school there-and went to painting (finger painting) and drawing classes on Saturdays at the San Francisco Museum of Art (cost a dime to attend). My mother and my younger brother and I moved to San Francisco when I was about 5 or so. ![]() In an all-too-brief autobiography on his Web site, Davis explained that he was born in 1932 in the small Northern California agricultural town of Salinas (also home to noted writer John Steinbeck), and that he began drawing “at age 2 or 3.” However, his family didn’t stay in the Salinas Valley for long: ![]() Randisi brings the sad news that California author and painter Kenn Davis, the creator of San Francisco private eye Carver Bascombe-died from a heart attack on January 12. ![]()
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