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Best remembered as the creator of the children's TV series Diver Dan, this versatile cartoonist also wrote science fiction with a sharp, playful edge. His work moved easily between illustrated entertainment for young audiences and imaginative short fiction for adults.
J. Anthony Ferlaine, also credited as John Ferlaine, was an American cartoonist, illustrator, and writer. He is most closely linked with Diver Dan, a children's television series that grew out of his comic strip Fish Tales.
Before that show reached television, he worked as an art director at Philadelphia's CBS affiliate WCAU-TV and developed marionette pilot films based on his underwater cartoon world. That mix of drawing, design, and screen storytelling gives his career an appealingly hands-on feel.
Ferlaine also wrote science fiction, including the short story One Out of Ten, which has remained available through Project Gutenberg and audiobook-style public-domain collections. Confirmed public sources on his life are fairly limited, so many biographical details are not widely documented.