A former TV newsman, he left that business to try a career at comic
book illustration, and quickly became one of the top comic-book artists
in the country.
After making only a few low-budget cult movies, Pat Boyette abandoned filmmaking to pursue a successful career as a cartoonist and comic-book artist.
He was a newscaster on television station KENS in San Antonio, Texas, in the 1950s and 1960s.