| 词条 | Paul Laikin |
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Born in Brooklyn, Laikin graduated in 1944 from James Madison High School. In 1945, he was drafted into the United States Army and sent to Germany, where he attained the rank of corporal while playing bugle calls for the troops. He was stationed at the former Dachau concentration camp (then a prison for Germans convicted of war crimes).[2] Returning home in 1947, he studied English at Columbia University and began writing for leading comedians, including Jackie Gleason, Milton Berle, Jan Murray, Ed Wynn and Alan King. In 1957, he started writing for Mad and later contributed to other humor magazines. He replaced Harvey Kurtzman as the editor of Jim Warren's Wildest Westerns magazine. For three years he was the editor of Cracked.[1][2] TelevisionDuring the 1960s, he was the head writer on several comedy game shows, including The Baby Game, Let's Play Post Office and Reach for the Stars.[2] BooksIn 1962, Laikin teamed with cartoonist Mort Drucker on the highly successful JFK Coloring Book (Kanrom Publishers), which sold 2,500,000 copies, and was one of the earliest titles in the short-lived "adult coloring book" publishing fad of the early 1960s.[3] Laikin and Drucker reunited in the 1980s, producing similarly-themed coloring books on Ollie North and Ronald Reagan.[4] Drucker described Laikin as "kind of quiet... He wasn't a forward kind of person, unless you got to know him," noting that he had "a good sense of humor and good knowledge of politics." Laikin did numerous joke books, including the 101 Jokes paperback series published by Pyramid Books, where Phil Hirsch was vice president from 1955 to 1975. Pyramid collaborations with Phil Hirsch
Laikin also contributed to comedy records (LBJ in the Catskills)[2] and Topps trading cards and stickers. In 1961, Laikin married the former Betty Silon, who died in 1967. Paul Laikin never remarried, raising his two children, Aron and Eden, as a single dad in West Babylon, New York. He died in 2012 from non-Hodgkins lymphoma while in hospice care in Melville, survived by his two children, his brother Harvey Laikin and three granddaughters.[2] References1. ^1 [https://books.google.com/books?id=4Ofd-XudNAcC&pg=PA96 Roach, David A. and Jon B. Cooke. The Warren Companion, TwoMorrows, 2001.] {{Madcontribs}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Laikin, Paul}}2. ^1 2 3 4 Winslow, Olivia. "Comedy writer Paul Laikin dies at 84". Newsday, May 14, 2012. 3. ^https://newrepublic.com/article/126580/radical-history-1960s-adult-coloring-books 4. ^Pacific Stars and Stripes, August 24, 1987. 5 : American comedy writers|Mad (magazine) people|2012 deaths|Year of birth missing|People from West Babylon, New York |
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