Duane Bryers
In 1942 he entered the Museum of Modern Art's National War Poster Competition with his poster design This is the Enemy in category C "The Nature of the Enemy". The poster was featured in an article in Life magazine. During his time at the flight mechanics school of the US Army Air Force from 1943 to 1946, he earned some money with so-called "girlie art" on aircraft fuselages (nose art). For the military base newspaper, he drew posters and comic strips featuring his original character Cokey.