Bing Coughlin was a Canadian commercial artist, who was active as a cartoonist during World War II. He entertained a great many Canadian soldiers stationed overseas with his comic strip/cartoon panel 'Herbie' (1944-1946), which ran in military papers like Maple Leaf alongside more politically oriented cartoons of Les Callan and Merle "Ting" Tingley.
Born as William Garnet Coughlin in 1905 in Ottawa. His father died young, and when his mother remarried, the family moved to Philadelphia in the USA in 1923. Coughlin attended the Pennsylvania School of Industrial Art, after which he began a career in advertising art. Coughlin and his wife eventually returned to Canada, where he joined the army. During World War II he was a Sergeant with the 4th Princess Louise Dragoon Guards, serving in Sicily during the Italian campaign. https://www.lambiek.net/artists/c/coughlin_bing.htm
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