Frank Caruso, Longtime Betty Boop Artist, Is Excited for Betty's Broadway Moment

Frank Caruso, Longtime Betty Boop Artist, Is Excited for Betty's Broadway Moment

Thirty-eight years ago, an ambitious young cartoonist named Frank Caruso turned up to the Manhattan offices of King Features for what was meant to be a single day’s freelance work. The company owned the rights to several golden-age cartoon characters and needed someone to do a few drawings of the lithesome, flirty, baby-voiced flapper Betty Boop. The one-day gig turned into a few days; those few days turned into a few decades. First as an art di…