Career
He sometimes used the signature A. West. Nugent. Born in Wallingford, Connecticut, he began his career as an acrobat. In 1916, he made the Olympic team, but the event was canceled.
He joined the Navy during and began doing artwork while in the Navy.
Returning after World War I, he worked as the New York World"s puzzle cartoonist for eight years. He created Funland in 1933.
Along with the games, riddles, connect-the-dots art, crossword puzzles and anagrams, it introduced his autobiographical character, Uncle Nugent (aka Uncle Art). lieutenant was distributed by United Feature Syndicate to more than 100 newspapers.
In the 1940s, he created funny animal stories for Popular Comics and other comic books, which also carried Funland reprints.
In "Pint-Size Pete" for The Big All-American Comics (1944), Pete heads into town to seek fame and fortune in hopes of saving his father"s farm. He continued doing the syndicated feature until 1974. He was 84 when he died at Saint Mary"s Hospital in Orange, New Jersey.
Beginning as his father"s assistant, he took over Funland in the early 1970s with occasional contributions by the elder Nugent.
Jokes, word and math games, connect the dots, optical illusions and crosswords are just some of the puzzles found in this weekly feature.".
