He began drawing comic strips for his junior high newspaper in Astoria , Queens , in 1927 , and after graduation found a job running errands for Max and Dave Fleischer , the makers of the '' Betty Boop '' and '' Popeye '' cartoons , at their studio in Times Square .
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