Leonard Sansone

The Wolf cartoon is a single panel cartoon (usually with a gag line) that was featured during WWII in hundreds of publications from 1942 to 1945. After the war ended, Sansone’s Wolf cartoon took on civilian life and continued for several more years under the name Wallie a civilian with a few wolfish characteristics who also chased the ladies. Wallie and The Wolf were both retired when Sansone had moved to Miami and created his new cartoon feature “Willie,” a family friendly cartoon strip. (see The Miami Years).

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JUNE 1944. Army Hit Kit of Popular Songs. A music folio of songs features Sansone’s G.I.Wolf on the cover singing This is a Lovely Way to Spend the Evening. Issued by Special Services Division of the Army Service Forces, U.S. Army.

CONTENTS:
In the good old summer time
Girl of my dreams
Beer barrel polka
San Fernando alley
The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi
After You’ve Gone
It’s love, love, love
A Lovely way to spend an evening
Give me that old –time religion

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