There is dispute as to who the first artist truly was. The 1975 book by "Jolly the Clown" Art Petri credits "Herman Bonnert from Pennsylvania at a magician's convention in 1939" as being the first balloontwister.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BalloonHQ Columns - Ralph Dewey |url=https://www.balloonhq.com/column/dewey/aug06/ |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=www.balloonhq.com}}</ref> Val Andrews, in Manual of Balloon Modeling, Vol. 1, An Encyclopedic Series, credits H.J. Bonnert of Scranton, Pennsylvania as being the "daddy of them all".<ref name="history">{{Cite web |last=Balzer |first=Mark |title=The History of Balloons |url=https://www.balloonhq.com/faq/history.html |access-date=2022-07-13 |website=Balloon HQ |language=en-us}}</ref> Jim Church III states, "Frank Zacone from Youngstown, Ohio was doing a balloon act during the 1940s and had been doing the act for some time."<ref name = "history"/> Another candidate for first balloon twister is [[w:Henry_Maar|Henry Maar]].
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There is dispute as to who the first artist truly was. The 1975 book by "Jolly the Clown" Art Petri credits "Herman Bonnert from Pennsylvania at a magician's convention in 1939" as being the first balloontwister.& Val Andrews, in Manual of Balloon Modeling, Vol. 1, An Encyclopedic Series, credits H.J. Bonnert of Scranton, Pennsylvania as being the "daddy of them all".& Jim Church III states, "Frank Zacone from Youngstown, Ohio was doing a balloon act during the 1940s and had been doing the act for some time."& Another candidate for first balloon twister is Henry Maar.
