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by Rick Marschall A Stir Is Born ★ “The child is father to the man,” and all that. I recently unearthed a clipping from the Bergen Record, August of 1962. It was, and still is, the major daily newspaper of north Jersey, across the George Washington Bridge from New York City. At age 13 I was already a comics fanatic, amateur historian, and collector. For some reason I

HAPPY HOOLIGAN by F.B. OPPER Chicago Examiner May 2, 1909 HH

by Rick Marschall 1– Book illustration by Billy Marriner, from Billy Burgundy’s Letters (1902) Dwig’s Rime Of the Ancient Marriner (Clare Victor Dwiggins and Billy Marriner) ★ “Dwig” is a signature that was commonly seen in American comic strips, book illustration, and other cartooning venues during the entire first half the 20th century. Clare Victor Dwiggins (1874-1958)

Dick Tracy Chester Gould Chicago Tribune February 10, 1935 November 11, 1942 "I don't like (Bob)Fletcher's drawings at all.  He hasn't captured Tracy's character. I'm very disappointed." - Chester Gould Ray Gould (L) brother of Chester Gould (R) helped with the lettering  and story ideas for Dick Tracy using FBI and police text-books.  Dick Tracy's Boss by

by Rick Marschall Carr became famous for his kids. They vaguely resembled those of Jimmy Swinnerton, but so did the characters of Dink Shannon and other cartoonists. Eventually they became constant cast members of Lady Bountiful’s adventure, and by the ‘teens virtually took over her strip. ★ A Used Carr Salesman (Gene Carr, Pioneer Strip Cartoonist) ★ An early memory has

by Chris Beneke Eighty years after his premature death on October 13, 1938, at the age of 43, Elzie Crisler Segar’s corpus cries out for exhumation and re-examination. Segar reclaimed his immortal comic creations, wasted for decades babysitting the kids, before the startled eyes of contemporary readers, thanks to not one but two Fantagraphics series reprinting Segar’s complete

Gasoline Alley Frank King Chicago Tribune July 2, 1933 July 24, 1938 advertisement

Clarence Rigby R.F. Outcault New York Herald August 11, 1901 ★★ ★

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–Billy DeBeck and Rudolph Block sail for Europe, Editor and Publisher, April 15, 1922– Leading Figures in American Journalism  ★★★★★★★★★★★ The Editor & Publisher  for October 27, 1917 [1] Col. James Elveson, JR, Robert R. McCormick, V.S. McClatchy [2] Frank A. Munsey, James Gordon Bennett, WM. Randolph Hearst, James Keeley [3] Ralph Pulitzer, Lieut. Joseph Medill