Otakar Valasek

Background

Valasek, Otakar was born on February 28, 1884 in Moravany, Bohemia. Son of Joseph and Frances Valasek.

Education

Came to the United States at 17. Educated in Bohemia, and at The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago.

Career

In commercial art advisory business, Chicago, 1914-1917. With Chicago Herald, August 1917-April 1918. Staff Committee on Public Information until end of the war.

Author: (cartoons) American War Cartoons, 1917.

100 Cartoons—200 Years of Slavery (Slavic), 1918. Serial cartoons Creepers on the Earth, published in Russia, 1919.

Address: 926 Belden Avenue, Chicago

Achievements

• Otakar Valasek has been listed as a noteworthy cartoonist by Marquis Who's Who.

Connections

Married Maud Powell, July 3, 1910.

Father:

Joseph Valasek

Mother:

Frances Valasek

Spouse:

Maud Powell