Career
lieutenant was syndicated by Field Enterprises and its successor, News America Syndicate. He pronounced his name Sick-station Born in Chicago, Sixta took night classes until 1927 at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, and he started his career by working with cartoonist Everett Lowry, who drew comic strips for the McClure Syndicate.
At age 20, Sixta was hired by the Chicago Sun-Times, where he did illustrations and sports cartoons.
His syndicated strip Dick Draper, Foreign Correspondent came to an end when he joined the Navy in 1941. Shipped from the Great Lakes to Washington, District of Columbia, he held down a desk job, doing public relations for the Secretary of the Navy.
During his Navy Puerto Rico job, Sixta got the idea for when he saw many photos of Navy mascots. first appeared in The Saturday Evening Post in 1944 and was syndicated from 1953 to 1985. Initially a Navy mascot, the friendly family dog lived with three children, Jamie, Virginia and Steve.
(These were also the names of Sixta"s three children)
Merchandising of included magic slates, dolls and coloring books
The strip was collected in: A Cartoon Book, published by Saalfield in the 1960s. Sixta also drew two newspaper features, One for the Book and the sports humor cartoon series, which ran from November 1, 1948 to January 9, 1954. featured the character Louella, as noted by comics historian Allan Holtz:
Sixta"s was the sort of feature that just sort of makes you shrug. lieutenant was workmanlike but never memorable.
Sixta tried to inject a little more personality into the feature by adding the recurring character Louella, a big-boned, rather dim sports enthusiast. guess George never saw any roller derby.
Louella appeared twice a week, with special billing in the panel, through much of the run. Before World World War II, Sixta met Jean Edwards of Sierra Madre, California, at Valley Ranch in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Wire-haired terrier Terry was the original model for In 1986, Sixta died in Laguna Hills, California, at the age of 76.