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Comedian Chronicles – The Method They Had been
Opening with an Origins of Sunday Comics with Peter Maresca‘s historic remark.
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Harry McCracken continues to dig up the lost and forgotten comic strip history of Scrappy.
You’ve been ready for this for nearly 5 years–or, in a manner, greater than 80. Or possibly not. However I hope you’ll get pleasure from these 4 examples of the ill-fated Scrappy newspaper caricature, which appears to have didn’t … nicely, seem in any newspapers.
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How did the Scrappy caricature come to be? Did Columbia strategy Eisner and Iger, or did they give you the concept? How onerous did they attempt to promote it to newspapers earlier than delivery it abroad?
© Dallas Morning Information
For greater than 50 years, Dallasites opened The Dallas Morning Information and noticed cartoons drawn by John Francis Knott. His artwork delighted generations of readers, captured the zeitgeist, and struck a chord along with his viewers. To his fellow Information staffers, Knott’s work expanded editorial cartooning as an artwork kind.
The Dallas Morning News, which no longer employs a staff cartoonist, celebrates John F. Knott.
Knott is probably greatest identified for his well-known character of Outdated Man Texas. Modeled after the Lancaster postmaster and farmer James “Uncle Jimmy” Boyd, Outdated Man Texas was meant to represent what the typical Texan would possibly appear like and what he would possibly suppose. He was tall, lanky and sported a 10-gallon hat and handlebar mustache.
© Peanuts Worldwide
I’ve many Peanuts books on my cabinets and in my bins, however I don’t suppose I’ve any that tells me of Charles Schulz’s life story; so I picked this “bookazine” off the shelf of my native B&N.
Life provides an excerpt here.
Over 5 a long time of solitary and deeply private work, Charles Schulz drew 17,897 Peanuts comedian strips, producing a physique of labor that constitutes not solely the richest achievement in caricature historical past, but in addition probably the most resonant sports activities strip of all time.
The easy genius of Peanuts lies in Schulz’s means to get to the center of huge issues (unrequited love, loneliness) and demanding life questions (is there a Nice Pumpkin?) via the lens of emotionally precocious youngsters. The explanation the sports activities stuff works so nicely is that sports activities, by and huge, compels part of us that has by no means grown up.
Correction: glancing on the bookshelf I see a replica of David Michaelis’ Schulz and Peanuts.
Mutt & Jeff © Pierre S. De Beaumont
For a while, [Bud] Fisher performed with a recurring character who was all the time seeking to win huge betting on horse races and simply as usually falling flat. Augustus Mutt was the tall, bedraggled gambler. Fisher got here up with the concept to make him the lead character in a each day strip. When he pitched the concept to his editor, it was at first rejected as a result of nobody had finished that earlier than and the editor was certain sports activities readers solely learn downward and wouldn’t learn a horizontal caricature. Fisher was persistent and his strip debuted on Nov. 15, 1907, as “A. Mutt.”
Bill Caldwell, for The Joplin Globe, gives brief but good history of the iconic Mutt and Jeff.
Mickey Mouse © Disney
[I]n the world of animation, there’s no better proof of artists’ means to prepare and obtain outcomes as a bunch than the Disney animators’ strike of 1941.
In labor strife, as in a lot else, Disney’s timetable didn’t match the remainder of Hollywood’s. The Nice Despair and the labor-friendly administration of FDR helped encourage extra union exercise throughout the Thirties than the earlier 50 years. The Display screen Actors Guild, Administrators Guild, and the Display screen Writers Guild (later to separate into the WGA East and West) have been all based within the 30s, and so they doggedly fought Hollywood studios to win equitable pay, safety towards exploitation, and protected working circumstances. These battles handed Walt Disney Productions by.
William Fischer, at Collider, tells of the infamous Disney Strike.
© Selection Leisure
From James Thompson, via the Platinum Era Comic Books and Periodicals Facebook page
is a four-page characteristic on comedian strips from the Selection 1937-38 radio annual.
© OGPI
It’s practically Halloween, so let’s finish with a Walt Kelly/Pogo horror story,
albeit one with a contented ending. Read the full tale at Whirled of Kelly.
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