Background
Woggon was born the fourth of six children in Toledo, Ohio, and he grew up there.
Woggon was born the fourth of six children in Toledo, Ohio, and he grew up there.
At 16, he took a job in a department store as a commercial artist, and then did the same kind of work at the Toledo Blade, where Elmer worked. By 1938, he was assisting Elmer in lettering and then drawing the latter"s newspaper comic strip Big Chief Wahoo, which later metamorphosed into Steve Roper and Mike Nomad. According to the strip"s writer, Allen Saunders, they were unable to keep him as a full-time Big Chief Wahoo staffer.