Cartoonist, illustrator, and designer Frank Richard Hill was born in Woodland, California on February 10, 1929. He staudied at the San Francisco Academy of Art before serving in the Navy, where he designed training aids and insignias. Following his service he worked as a layout artist for various ad agencies and was the art director for Behavioral Labratories's educational material. He worked on storyboards and character designs for television and was a designer for Smith Novelty Frank, Worlds of Wonder, Rock-It Science, and Determined Productions. Throughout, he worked as a ghost artist creators Charles Schultz, Frank O'Neal, Hank Ketchum, and Lee Holley while also developing his own comics. 

Hill is best known for continuing the "Short Ribs" comic strip of Frank O'Neal after his retirement (1973-1982), writing the Bugs Bunny newspaper comic (1980 to 1989) and drawing the Tom and Jerry newspaper comics in the 1990s, and working with Hank Ketchum on the "Dennis the Menace" strip, comic books, and merchandising. Among his personal output were the strips "Randy" (1964-1970) and "Senator Gassius" (1966-1967). He worked as an inker for Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice," Pat Sullivan and Otto Messmer's "Felix the Cat," and Fritz Freleng's "The Pink Panther," among many others. 

Frank Hill died in Soquel, California on March 19, 2023.