# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mell-lazarus
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:39:59.118Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mell-lazarus"
name: "Mell Lazarus"
slug: "mell-lazarus"
description: "Melvin Lazarus was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of two comic strips, Miss Peach (1957–2002) and Momma (1970–2016). Additionally, he wrote two novels. For his comic strip Pauline McPeril, he used the pseudonym Fulton, which is also the name of a character in his first novel, The Boss Is Crazy, Too."
tagline: "Syndicated cartoonist (1927–2016)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mell_Lazarus%2C_1973.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1927-05-03"
deathDate: "2016-05-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.61
  momentum:             2.022471910112359
  historical:           7.882794666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1147462/"
    handle:    "nm1147462"
sources:
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    title: "Mell Lazarus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mell_Lazarus"
    title: "Mell Lazarus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mell_Lazarus"
    title: "Mell Lazarus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mell_Lazarus"
    title: "Mell Lazarus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mell_Lazarus"
    title: "Mell Lazarus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mell_Lazarus"
    title: "Mell Lazarus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mell_Lazarus"
    title: "Mell Lazarus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mell_Lazarus"
    title: "Mell Lazarus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1695815"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4860644"
    title: "Mell Lazarus"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump