Pete Millar

Pete Millar
Millar, photographed in 1965.
Born	(1929-12-14)December 14, 1929 Oakland, California, U.S.
Died	February 28, 2003(2003-02-28) (aged 73) Palos Verdes Peninsula, California
Nationality	USA
Area(s)	Illustrator, cartoonist, sculptor
Pseudonym(s)	Millarkey
Notable works	Arin Cee CARtoons Magazine DRAG Cartoons, Millar Publishing Company
Spouse(s)	Orah Mae (m. 1954–his death)

Peter Millar (1929 – 2003) was an American illustrator, cartoonist, and drag racer best known for his work with CARtoons and DRAG Cartoons magazines. Millar often used the pen name "Millarkey".

Millar's first published strip was Arin Cee, produced for Rod & Custom (R&C) magazine beginning in 1955 and continuing into the 1960s.

Millar co-created CARtoons Magazine in 1959, which was published by the Petersen Publishing Company. The first issue of CARtoons included the story of the hot rod community as a social collective and introduced the term "Rumpsville" (referring to "hot rod heaven"). Millar worked on CARtoons until 1963, when he was replaced by Hot Rod editor and "Stroker McGurk" creator Tom Medley.

In June 1963 Millar founded DRAG Cartoons under the Millar Publishing Company label. DRAG Cartoons featured early adventures of Gilbert Shelton's iconic underground comix character Wonder Wart-Hog, who appeared in many issues. Millar published 49 issues of DRAG Cartoons between 1963 and 1968 (The title was later continued for two additional issues by a different publisher in 1999 and 2000). Then Mike Doherty published at least six issues of The Best Of DRAG Cartoons from 1969 to 1971, and the one-shot The Wildest DRAG Cartoons #1 in 1970 Millar Publishing Company also produced two issues of a Wonder Wart-Hog comic book in 1968, as well as four issues of the popular Big Daddy Roth magazine in 1964–1965.

In 1968, Millar and his wife and three daughters left the U.S. and traveled through Europe, living in Sweden and Spain, and touring Finland, the Soviet Union, and other Eastern Bloc and Mediterranean countries. Millar financed much of their trip through illustration work for American magazines; he also began making fine art paintings.