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Bill Mauldin (Pulitzer Prizes for political cartoon;  Willie and Joe in WW II) RM 3

Jimmy Swinnerton 🕭 Chicago Examiner Dec 19, 1909 🕭

Rube Goldberg  (late in life took up humorous sculpture) RM 3

by John Adcock Bill Williams was an exceptional cartoonist, and an ink-slinger about whom remarkably little is known. Searches on the internet give his birth-date as November 30, 1917, but nowhere is the source provided. [1] GI Jane advertisement, Bill Williams, 1955 I did find a reference to an interview in a paragraph in the SC Bulletin, Wilton, Conn., dated July 3, 2002, which

Frank Willard (pre- Moon Mullins) RM 2

C W Kahles ("Hairbreadth Harry") RM [1]

The Cartoonist Known As WOW by Rick Marschall This week we lost a favorite international cartoonist, Werner Wejp-Olsen. His years were 1938-2018, and his residences were Denmark-United States-Denmark. I want to pay tribute to a friend and a good cartoonist, and share how friendships can grow into mutual friendships, and connections, and networking, and new career paths. That’s

T.S. Sullivant (1854-1926) March 7, 1908 ❦

F.B. OPPER November 7, 1909 ❦

Al Stoffell and Ralph Heimdahl The MEN BEHIND THE COMICS In my childhood I used to follow the daily comic strip adventures of Bugs Bunny in my hometown newspaper the Trail (BC) Daily Times. Finding information about Al Stoffell (writer) and Ralph Heimdahl (cartoonist) has always been a near futile chore, perhaps they were unjustly ignored because they were producing a cartoon “

The author of Eminent Victorian Cartoonists is Dr. Richard Scully, Associate Professor in Modern European History at the University of New England, Armidale, NSW, 2531, Australia. The book, a "labour of love," published by The Political Cartoon Society, is a three volume comprehensive social and biographical history of the Victorian political cartoon from John 'H.B.' Doyle to Sir (John)

❦ “I always thought I’d quit in a couple of years.  But it never seemed to happen…” – Stan Lee ❦ ‘Nuff Said: Memories of Stan Lee by Rick Marschall Stan Lee died this week. As if he were invulnerable like many of his superheroes – or the usual superheroes, not the Marvel Universe head-cases – many fans likely thought he would simply live on and on. He did, in a way that few

❦ “He [Héctor Oesterheld] had a literary background and was a great reader, like me and most of the young people of the time, novelists such as Jack London, Melville, Conrad, Alexandre Dumas, Jules Verne, Victor Hugo ... And Hector began, with that same style, to produce his own personal stories…” — Francisco Solano López, illustrator of the science-fiction comic El Eternauta . by

Bad Mans Takes Willie to the Circus! Jimmy Swinnerton Chicago Examiner July 24 1910 ★★★ Little Willie looks to be the younger brother of Swinnerton's more famous Little Jimmy. Every Little Willie strip contained variations of the same joke, ending with slapstick violence wreaked by Willie's pug Violet, and the repeating "BAD MANS!" to finish. ★★★

COMIC SECTION of the  Chicago Examiner July 24, 1910 ★★★★★★★★★★★

A special drawing by Bob Lubbers following the ExpoCartoon festival  in Rome, Italy, 1998, that honored him with the Yellow Kid Award. “When In Rome…” By Rick Marschall I have attended the comics festivals in Lucca since 1978 (and, in fact, those in Rome, ExpoCartoon; and Angouleme, Prague, and elsewhere – and the American rep, at one time or another, for Lucca, Angouleme, and

by F.B. OPPER October 24, 1909 ͖￫ ￩ꜜ 2

𝅘𝅥𝅰 The Lady And The Mouse by Carl Anderson New York Journal 𝅘𝅥𝅰 [1] [2] Taken At The Rate of A Million A Minute The Journal Kinetoscope Sept 5, 1897 [3] 𝅘𝅥𝅰 1

Rick Marschall My One Evening As the NCS Attorney CARTOONIST SKETCHES - NCS poster for RM 1961 ::             Another anniversary just passed. For me, anyway; my personal Crowded Life. October 25 was my parents’ birthday and will always be tattooed on my “brain.” This year I flew to New York City on Oct 25 to deliver a speech to the Theodore Roosevelt Association’s annual symposium.

[1] Davenport cartoon of Bob Fitzsimmons-NY Journal-Mar 16 1897 SAN FRANCISCO. The first newspaper sporting cartoonist in San Francisco to achieve fame was Homer Calvin Davenport. Davenport was born in Silverton, Oregon on March 6, 1867 and his first introduction to newspapers was at the Portland Oregonian.  He arrived in San Francisco on Feb 2, 1892 and was “taken on trial” by the Examiner