Ed (Edward) Benton) Dodd

Ed Dodd combined his affinity for the outdoors with his artistic talent to create the comic strip Mark Trail. Spending most of his career in Georgia, Dodd was a widely recognized proponent of the natural environment, an advocate of conservation, and a teacher of outdoor lore in mid-twentieth-century America.

Edward Benton Dodd was born in LaFayette, in Walker County, on November 7, 1902, to Jesse Mercer, a Baptist minister, and Effie Cooke. As a child, Dodd immersed himself in sketching, drawing, and painting.
Dodd's interest in nature and art developed early in life. Beginning in 1920, Dodd worked each summer for more than a dozen years at a boys' camp in Pennsylvania. His experiences at the camp, which was run by Dan Bear   ...  Displaying 750 of 4043 characters.