Facts: - death place: winter park , florida - birth name: frank oscar king - area: cartoonist - death date: 24 june 1969 - birth date: 9 april 1883 - name: frank king - nationality: american - image: frankkingtomah.jpg - birth place: cashton , wisconsin Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of frank king -lrb- cartoonist -rrb- .
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frank oscar king -lrb- april 9 , 1883 -- june 24 , 1969 -rrb- was an american cartoonist best known for his comic strip '' gasoline alley '' .in addition to innovations with color and page design , king introduced real-time continuity in comic strips by showing his characters aging over generations .born in cashton , wisconsin , king was the oldest of the two sons of mechanic john j. king and his wife caroline .when frank was four years old , he moved with his parents to 1710 superior avenue in tomah , wisconsin , where they operated their family general store .he started drawing while growing up in tomah , where he graduated from tomah high school in 1901 .he entered country fair drawing competitions ; a sign he drew for a hotel bootblack earned him only 25 cents , but it was seen by a traveling salesman who learned it had been drawn by the son of one of his customers .the salesman arranged an interview for king with a minneapolis newspaper editor .king began earning $ 7 a week at the '' minneapolis times '' , and during his four years there , he doubled his salary while creating drawings and doing retouching .on march 17 , 1905 , he gave a chalk talk at a minneapolis st. patrick 's day celebration .