While in the Air Force, Spinney wrote and illustrated "Harvey", a comic strip about military life. He also animated a series of black-and-white cartoons called "Crazy Crayon".
Comics and cartoons
Caroll Spinney
Caroll Spinney | Comics and cartoons
Yes, a comic strip about military life. Yes. "Harvey" Yes, he wrote and illustrated "Harvey", a comic strip about military life. Yes, "Harvey" and "Crazy Crayon"
when did the first episode of sesame street air
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10 November 1969.
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is it a series?
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Yes, an educational children's television series.
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is the series still running?
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Yes, it is on its second run.
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when was the pilot episode done?
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July 1969.
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is it a puppet show?
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Yes.
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name a few characters from the series?
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Human characters included Susan and muppet characters included Elmo.
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can you name more muppet characters?
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Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.
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how do the latter look like?
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He has a green body with no visible nose.
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does the muppet perform any oscar related play?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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who performed the aforementioned bird muppet?
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It was performed by Caroll Spinney till his retirement.
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who is he by profession?
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He was an American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker.
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did he do comics too?
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While in the Air Force, Spinney wrote and illustrated "Harvey", a comic strip about military life. He also animated a series of black-and-white cartoons called "Crazy Crayon".
Caroll Spinney | Comics and cartoons
Many years later, Spinney's Picklepuss and Pop puppets were characters in "Wow, You're a Cartoonist!"
Caroll Spinney | Early puppeteering
Caroll Edwin Spinney was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, on December 26, 1933, to Chester and Margaret Spinney. His mother, a native of Bolton, England, named him Caroll because he was born the day after Christmas. He drew and painted from childhood, and developed a love of puppeteering when he saw a performance of "Three Little Kittens" at the age of five. This motivated him to purchase a monkey puppet from a rummage sale three years later and put on a puppet show utilizing the monkey and a plush snake. The following Christmas, his mother gave him a Punch and Judy puppet theater.
Caroll Spinney | Early life
Caroll Edwin Spinney (December 26, 1933 – December 8, 2019) was an American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker, most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on "Sesame Street" from its inception in 1969 until 2018.
Caroll Spinney | Introduction
In 1955, Spinney relocated to Las Vegas, where he performed in the show "Rascal Rabbit". He returned to Boston, joining "The Judy and Goggle Show" in 1958 as a puppeteer "Goggle" to Judy Valentine's Judy. Throughout the 1960s, he performed on the Boston broadcast of "Bozo's Big Top", where he played various costumed characters which included Flip Flop the Rag Doll, Mr. Rabbit, Kookie the Boxing Kangaroo as well as Mr. Lion, who created cartoon drawings from the names of children participating in the show. Through that decade, he was also a commercial artist and animator. Spinney created a puppet duo consisting of two cats named Picklepuss and Pop, which he utilized throughout the 1960s.
Caroll Spinney | Early puppeteering
He continued puppeteering throughout his childhood and adolescence and used his performances to raise money for college tuition. After he graduated from Acton High School (subsequently Acton-Boxborough Regional High School) in Acton, Massachusetts, Spinney served in the US Air Force.
Caroll Spinney | Early life
John I. Caldwell (March 23, 1946 – February 21, 2016) was a nationally syndicated American gag cartoonist primarily known for his work in "National Lampoon" and "Mad", where he was a member of "The Usual Gang of Idiots." Following his death, The Comics Reporter described him as having had "one of the most prolific and successful [cartooning] careers of the late 20th Century."
John Caldwell (cartoonist) | Introduction
From 1930 to 1938, working in an office on 45th Street, Lariar did freelance gag cartoons, comic strips and spot drawings, including political cartoons for the "New York Journal American" and pages for some of the earliest comic books.
Lawrence Lariar | Early career
Charles Branum Barsotti (Sep. 28, 1933 – June 16, 2014) was an American cartoonist who contributed gag cartoons to major magazines.
Charles Barsotti | Introduction
He often talks in a choppy, disjointed and flustered manner "Did you asking me? / Could I have stood it?"
George W. Geezil | Comics
Norman Nodel (1922 – 25 February 2000) was an American comics-illustrator, mostly known for his work in "Classics Illustrated".
Norman Nodel | Introduction
McNeil also became a noted animation historian, particularly with the studios that produced television animation in the 60s thru the 70's. He started writing about his work on and about various Saturday morning cartoons shortly after he first began animating. Starting with a yearly correspondence with the writer/editor of DC Comics "Super Friends" comic book, E. Nelson Bridwell, he started writing about and covering comic book based animation and live-action productions for a number of publications and periodicals, including The Comics Reader, Comics Buyers Guide (CBG), Comics Scene, and TOON Magazine (which he cofounded) among many others. He later co-wrote two animation books, "Hanna-Barbera's World of Super Adventure" and "Animation by Filmation".
Darrell McNeil | Writing career
Starting off as a cartoonist during his term of national service, he soon began to sell strips to magazines and newspapers. He met Johnnie Mortimer at a cartoonists convention. They also wrote the screenplays for the film version of the play "No Sex Please, We're British", and the movie versions of their series "Man About the House" and "Father Dear Father".
Brian Cooke | Early career
After creating sports cartoons for Street & Smith magazines, he began drawing for comic books, including a job at the Eisner & Iger shop. During the 1940s, he was an assistant art director and a major contributor to the Fiction House line, notably for "Wings Comics". Over decades, he did work for a variety of publishers, including American Comics Group, DC Comics, Gold Key Comics, Quality Comics, Standard Comics, St. John Publications, and Whitman Comics.
John Celardo | Comic books
Rops published significantly fewer comics as his career as an illustrator of books progressed but, he produced occasional comics, caricatures, even advertisements, throughout his life.
Félicien Rops | Cartoons and caricatures
Comic strips in the early 20th century and 19th century had little to no female Refaluwasch whether they be cartoonists or minor characters.
Carolinian people | Media
William Raphael Louis Dwyer, Jr. (January 29, 1907-December 13, 1987), known as Bil Dwyer, was an American cartoonist and humorist. He was known for several newspaper comic strips in the 1930s and 1950s, including "Dumb Dora" and "Sandy Hill", as well as a series of humorous books of Southern slang published in the 1970s.
Bil Dwyer (cartoonist) | Introduction
In 1932, he was hired to draw a daily sports cartoon for "The Globe and Mail", leaving high school. His work became syndicated and earned him a comfortable living. While he worked as a cartoonist, he converted to Christianity, quitting cartooning in 1936.
Charles Templeton | Cartoonist
Carr's cartoons also appeared in reprint books and on postcards.
Gene Carr (cartoonist) | Books
Ian Carney is a British comics animation writer. Born in Liverpool, Merseyside on 21 August 1962, Carney began writing comics in the 80s for Fleetway Editions in the UK and First Comics and Dark Horse Comics in the US. He is probably best known in the comics world as co-creator with Woodrow Phoenix of a humorous anthology comic called SugarBuzz published by Slave Labor Graphics, featuring a cast of over fifty characters. The most popular being Pants Ant, who featured in an animated cartoon for The Cartoon Network; and the Where's It At, Sugar Kat? series which was also optioned for film and TV projects by Walt Disney inc.
Ian Carney | Introduction
Virgil Franklin Partch (October 17, 1916 – August 10, 1984) was an American magazine gag cartoonist of the 1940s and 1950s, generally signing his work Vip. Additionally, he created the newspaper comic strips "Big George" and "The Captain's Gig". He published 19 books of illustrations and drew art for children's books. Despite being a gagwriter for "The New Yorker", his own cartoons were rarely published there because, according to comics historian Bhob Stewart, ""New Yorker" editor Harold Ross disliked VIP's drawing style."
Virgil Partch | Introduction
In the early 1940s, DC Comics brought back "Minute Movies" as a feature in 58 issues of "Flash Comics". In 1944, Max Gaines published the "Edgar Wheelan Joke Book" with Wheelan's Fat and Slat characters, who returned in their own title, "Fat and Slat", which ran for four quarterly issues in 1947 and 1948. The book also featured Wheelan's ""Comics" McCormick" ("The World's #1 Comic Book Fan"). In the late 1940s, Wheelan drew "Foney Fairy Tales", fairy tale parodies that ran as a feature in "Wonder Woman" and "Comic Cavalcade". After leaving comics, Wheelan created paintings of clowns. He died in 1966 in Fort Myers, Florida.
Ed Wheelan | Comic books
A prolific cartoonist in his twenties, his cartoons were published daily in the British tabloid newspapers. He also wrote and drew the regular strips "How to Succeed in Circus" for "The Catch" magazine and "Starface" for "Zit" comic.
Allin Kempthorne | Contributing writer and cartoonist
Cavalli was born and educated in New York City. He did military service in World War II, seeing combat with the Air Force Ground Groups and the infantry in France, Luxembourg and Germany. On his return to the U.S., he did pen and ink drawing of fossilized specimens for the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, and studied cartooning at the Cartoonists & Illustrators School, where he was in the first graduating class. His gag cartoons in magazines including "The Saturday Evening Post" and "Collier's", "Ms.", "Working Woman", and "The Atlantic Monthly." had achieved such popularity by 1956 that "Writer's Digest" observed he had "risen to the top faster than any other cartoonist in the business." That year he became one of the founding 10 cartoonists, alongside Al Capp, Milton Caniff, and others, to be affiliated with the Famous Artists Cartoon Course correspondence course, a spinoff of the Famous Artists School.
Dick Cavalli | Biography
Harry Sahle was born in Cleveland to Edward Sahle and Sarah Jewell. His mother died when he was young and he grew up in Cleveland with his father and his father's parents, who were both born in Switzerland. Sahle drew gag cartoons for "Boys' Life" magazine between 1938 and 1939, before entering the fledgling medium of comic books via the Harry "A" Chesler Studio and Funnies Inc., two Manhattan-based "packagers" that provided complete, outsourced comics for early publishers testing the medium. Among his earliest comics work is a cover for the only issue of Pelican Publications' "Green Giant Comics" (Jan.
Harry Sahle | Early career
Charles Nelson Landon (December 19, 1878 – May 17, 1937) was an illustrator for "The Cleveland Press", art director for the Newspaper Enterprise Association and art editor of "Cosmopolitan". He is most notable as the founder of the Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning, a mail-order correspondence course that trained a generation of leading syndicated cartoonists in drawing for publication.
Charles N. Landon | Introduction
During the 1940s, Liney taught cartooning at Temple University. He also drew the "Henry" comic books: Dell's "Four Color" #122 (October 1946) and #155 (July 1947), followed by 65 issues of Dell's "Henry" from 1948 to 1961. Anderson died in 1948 and Liney continued drawing the daily "Henry". In 1951, Liney was responsible for guiding the career of illustrator Jerry Pinkney by encouraging him and showing him his studio. Pinkney recalled, "When I was 12 years old, I was selling newspapers on a busy corner in Philadelphia, and John Liney was one of my customers. I realized here was a grown man doing the very same thing I loved doing.
John Liney | Comic books
This new spin on the comic strip alienated many older male viewers and may have led to its retirement on January 1, 2000.
Tom Forman (cartoonist) | Introduction
Lloyd Jacquet was born in Brooklyn to a father who had emigrated from France. After serving as a colonel in World War I, Jacquet worked as an editor for Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson's National Allied Magazines (the future DC Comics) on some of the first comic books — including the landmark "New Fun: The Big Comic Magazine" (Feb. 1935), the first such publication with solely original material rather than any newspaper comic strip reprints. Jacquet remained through its first four issues, later becoming art director of the George Matthew Adams Service in c. 1936–1937, and then art director of Centaur Publications — where some sources credit him with co-creating writer-artist Bill Everett's superhero Amazing Man — before leaving to start Funnies, Inc.
Lloyd Jacquet | Early life and career
During the 1970s he produced comics with Warner Bros.' "Looney Tunes"/"Merrie Melodies" characters for Western Publishing. For Marvel in 1980s, Costanza drew comics with Heathcliff, the Get Along Gang, and Hugga Bunch.
John Costanza | Biography
Spinney first met Jim Henson in 1962 at a puppeteering festival, where Henson asked if he would like to "talk about the Muppets". As Spinney failed to realize the question was an employment offer, the conversation never came to pass. In 1969, Spinney performed at a Puppeteers of America festival in Utah. His show was a mixture of live actors and puppets but was ruined by an errant spotlight that washed out the animated backgrounds. Henson was once again in attendance and noticed Spinney's performance. "I liked what you were trying to do," Henson said, and he asked once more if they could "talk about the Muppets".
Caroll Spinney | As a "Sesame Street" puppeteer
John Tinney McCutcheon (May 6, 1870 – June 10, 1949) was an American newspaper political cartoonist, war correspondent, combat artist, and author who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1931 editorial cartoon, "A Wise Economist Asks a Question," and became known even before his death as the "Dean of American Cartoonists." The Purdue University graduate moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1890 to work as an artist and occasional writer for the "Chicago Morning News" (later named the "News Record", the "Chicago Record", and the "Record-Herald"). His first front-page cartoon appeared in 1895 and his first published political cartoon was published during the U.
John T. McCutcheon | Introduction
He wrote and provided illustrations for such comic book titles as "Magnus, Robot Fighter," "Donald Duck," and "Uncle Scrooge". He was involved with the Southern California Comic Artist Professionals Society for many years, and was a past President of the Comic Art Professional Society (CAPS). Christensen died in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 18, 2006, at the age of 90 of natural causes. He beat the odds that he would not survive past 40, having been a Type I diabetic since the age of 13.
Don R. Christensen | Introduction
Richard A. Cavalli (September 28, 1923 – October 16, 1997) was an American commercial illustrator and cartoonist best known for the comic strips "Morty Meekle" and its successor, "Winthrop", which consecutively were syndicated to newspapers from 1956 to 1994.
Dick Cavalli | Introduction
Cecil Langley Doughty (7 November 1913 – 26 October 1985) was a British comics artist and illustrator, best known for his work in the comic "Knockout" and the educational weekly "Look and Learn".
Cecil Langley Doughty | Introduction
Arthur Geoffrey Campion (19 November 1916 — 18 December 1997) was a British comics artist who drew adventure strips for Amalgamated Press/IPC. He started out as a tax inspector. As a staff officer in the East India Command in WWII he began drawing cartoons for the forces' magazine, "Jambo". Returning to England, he responded to an ad from the Amalgamated Press looking for artists in 1948. He was hired by editor Leonard Matthews to draw humour strips like "Professor Bloop" in "Knock-Out", and filled in on a variety of strips for AP artist Hugh McNeill, including a "Thunderbolt Jaxon" comic for publication in Australia in 1949.
Geoff Campion | Introduction
In his first career as a cartoonist (1965–72), Johnson churned out hundreds of drawings, comic strips, panel cartoons and illustrations for the student paper "The Daily Egyptian", regular editorial cartoons for "The Southern Illinoisan", illustrations for "The Chicago Tribune", national African-American publications including "Black World "(formerly "Negro Digest"), "Ebony", and "Players", one-page comic book scripts for the now defunct "Charlton Comics", and taught cartooning in SIU's "Free School." One of his earliest published articles is "Creating the Political Cartoon," published in "Scholastic/Editor/Communications" and "Graphics" (March 1973). Inspired by a lecture he heard in 1969 by Amiri Baraka (né Leroi Jones), Johnson drew the collection of racial satire titled "Black Humor" (Chicago: Johnson Publishing Company, 1970).
Charles R. Johnson | Political Cartooning
Growing up in San Francisco, Hayes moved homes frequently with his family; by the time he was twelve years old the family had moved ten times. Hayes and his younger brother were into pop culture and comic books, including "Little Lulu", "Uncle Scrooge", "Sugar and Spike", and "Dick Tracy". Together, they published homemade comics, which were encouraged by their mother. All through their teens the boys continued to make comics, home-made movies, and later, fanzines. After high school, Hayes moved to New York City to pursue a career as an illustrator and cartoonist. He contributed to a few underground comix during this period (including "Bogeyman" and "Arcade"), mostly in collaboration with Rory, who was developing a reputation as a groundbreaking cartoonist in that genre.
Geoffrey Hayes (artist) | Biography
But there's always room at the top. Fred Lasswell was one of the first cartoonists to create a digital image archive of his work. He did this to ensure that his art could provide source material for future art students and their teachers, and to ensure the continuation of his comic strips. His archive contains thousands of images of cartoon characters, expressions, costumes, poses, actions and activities depicting helpfulness; useful and funny objects, tools and gadgets; Healthy foods and happy vegetables, plants, trees, flowers seeds; Cartoony alphabet letters, numbers, big things, small things and ways to measure; Animals, birds, bugs, scarytoons, crawling critters and sea life; Interior and exterior background scenes and seasonal themes, sports, pastimes, outdoor activities and habitats in Nature.
Fred Lasswell | Looking back at age 79
Carl Robert Fallberg (September 11, 1915 – May 9, 1996) was a writer/cartoonist for animated feature films and T.V. cartoons for Disney Studios, Hanna-Barbera, and Warner Brothers. He also wrote comic books for Dell Comics, Western Publishing, and Gold Key Comics.
Carl Fallberg | Introduction
Covers during the 1940s and 1950s featured caricatures of comedians by Rowland B. Wilson and others. This eventually made a transition to photo covers. Cartoonists included Bob Barnes, Irwin Caplan, Chon Day, Leo Garel, Jerry Marcus, Don Orehek, Virgil Partch, Bob Schroeter, Eli Stein, George Wolfe and Pete Wyma. The magazine paid $15 for a cartoon and an equal amount for an 18-line verse. Many of the cartoons were later recycled into paperback cartoon collections. Cartoonist Lee Lorenz described cartoonists making rounds and making a sale to "1000 Jokes": A sister Dell publication was "For Laughing Out Loud", and Dell revived the "Ballyhoo" title in the early 1950s.
1000 Jokes | Cartoonists
Guindon's cartoons have been collected in several books:
Dick Guindon | Bibliography
He began drawing comic books (including Fawcett's George Pal "Puppetoons"), and began working with Otto Messmer on the Felix the Cat comic books until they ceased publication. In 1954, Oriolo assumed authorship of the separate Felix daily comic strips at the request of King Features Syndicate, which he continued to produce until 1969.
Joe Oriolo | Career
Upon his discharge, he became a high-school English teacher for five years (1964-1969) before spending 30 years as a convention manager for the National Council of Teachers of English. He received a Master's Degree in English at New York University in 1968, and a Ph.D. in English literature from the University of Illinois in 1978. While at NCTE, he freelanced cartoons to magazines, 1978-1982. In 1973, Harvey began writing about comics and cartooning for "The Menomonee Falls Gazette". In 1976, Harvey's columns began appearing in "The Comics Journal", where he has a regular column to this day. The 1990s saw publication of Fantagraphics Books' "Cartoons of the Roaring Twenties" in two volumes, collected and edited by Harvey.
R. C. Harvey | Career
Cecil Hays Surry (April 19, 1907 – September 19, 1956) was a cartoonist at various film studios in the Golden Age of Animation.
Cecil Surry | Introduction
145, July 1958); "The Buccaneer" (No. 148, January 1959); "The Three Musketeers" (No. 1, revised, May 1959); "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (No. 18, revised, with Reed Crandall, Fall 1960); "Oliver Twist" (No. 23, revised, with Reed Crandall, Fall 1961); "Julius Caesar" (No. 68, revised, with Reed Crandall, 1962); and "In Freedom's Cause" (No. 168, with Reed Crandall, 1962; published UK 1963; published US 1969).
George Evans (cartoonist) | Comic books
Carl Rose (1903 – 1971) was an American cartoonist whose work appeared in "The New Yorker", "Popular Science", "The Saturday Evening Post", and elsewhere. He received the National Cartoonists Society's Advertising and Illustration Award for 1958. Rose created one of the most famous "New Yorker" cartoons, published December 8, 1928, with a caption by E. B. White. In the cartoon, a mother at dinner says to her young daughter, "It's broccoli, dear." Her daughter answers, "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it." (The phrase "I say it's spinach" entered the vernacular; in 1932, Irving Berlin's popular Broadway revue "Face The Music" included the song "I Say It's Spinach (And The Hell With It)".) Elizabeth Hawes adopted it for her critique of the clothing design industry: "Fashion is Spinach" (1938).
Carl Rose (cartoonist) | Introduction
By his 1972 retirement he had drawn over 14,000 cartoons. He lived in Carol Stream, Illinois and died of cancer at the age of 89.
Vaughn Shoemaker | Introduction
He started working on comics in 1932 as an assistant of Carl Thomas Anderson at age 17, after taking art classes from Anderson in high school. He worked on the Sunday version of the "Henry" comics from Anderson's death in 1948 until 1995. (John Liney worked on the daily comics.) While living in Vermont, Trachte became friends with a group of artists that included Norman Rockwell, Grandma Moses, and Mead Schaeffer. The Trachte family lived in Schaeffer's old house, which Trachte bought from him in 1950.
Don Trachte | Career
Paul Houlton Terry (February 19, 1887 – October 25, 1971) was an American cartoonist, screenwriter, film director and producer. He produced over 1,300 cartoons between 1915 and 1956 including the many Terrytoons cartoons. His studio's most famous character is Mighty Mouse, and also created Heckle & Jeckle, Gandy Goose and Dinky Duck.
Paul Terry (cartoonist) | Introduction
Gill also drew a 1948 comic strip, "Ricky Stevens", and comic books for Harvey Comics and Toby Press. For Western Publishing, he additionally illustrated children's books and such projects as "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." TV tie-in books and activity books. For roughly 50 years, Gill taught cartooning and children's-book illustration in New York-area colleges and institutions, including the School of Visual Arts, where he served as a department chair in 1948, alumni director in 1969, and consultant well into the 21st century. He served several terms as vice-president of the National Cartoonists Society, winning its Silver T-Square award in 1964 and its Best Story Comic Book Artist award in 1970.
Tom Gill (artist) | Cartooning and children's books
Charles Raymond "C. R." Macauley (March 19, 1871 – November 24, 1934) was an American cartoonist and illustrator. He was also involved in the film business. Born in Canton, Ohio, he worked as a freelance illustrator and as staff cartoonist for newspapers including the "Cleveland World", "New York World", "New York Daily Mirror", "New York Evening Graphic", and "Brooklyn Daily Eagle". He received the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for his 1929 cartoon "Paying for a Dead Horse". He got into filmmaking in support of Woodrow Wilson's campaigns in 1912 and 1916. He also made a film in support of his League of Nations plan.
Charles R. Macauley | Introduction
Dan Spiegle (December 10, 1920 – January 28, 2017) was an American comics artist and cartoonist best known for comics based on movie and television characters across a variety of companies including Dell Comics, DC Comics, and Marvel Comics.
Dan Spiegle | Introduction
Richard Sala (June 2, 1954 – May 7, 2020) was an American cartoonist, illustrator, and comic book creator with a unique expressionistic style whose books often combined elements of mystery, horror and whimsy.
Richard Sala | Introduction
Clampett also recalled watching his father play handball at the Los Angeles Athletic Club with another of the great silent comedians, Harold Lloyd. From his early teens Clampett showed an interest in animation and puppetry. Clampett made hand puppets as a child and, before adolescence, had completed what animation historian Milt Gray describes as "a sort of prototype, a kind of nondescript dinosaur sock puppet that later evolved into Cecil." In high school, Clampett drew a full-page comic about the nocturnal adventures of a pussycat, later published in color in a Sunday edition of the "Los Angeles Times". King Features took note and offered Clampett a "cartoonist's contract" to begin a seventy-five dollars a week after high school.
Bob Clampett | Early life
Sir John Tenniel (28 February 182025 February 1914) was an English illustrator, graphic humorist and political cartoonist prominent in the second half of the 19th century. He was knighted for artistic achievements in 1893. Tenniel is remembered mainly as the principal political cartoonist for "Punch" magazine for over 50 years and for his illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865) and "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" (1871).
John Tenniel | Introduction
Spillane started as a writer for comic books. While working as a salesman in Gimbels department store basement in 1940, he met tie salesman Joe Gill, who later found a lifetime career in scripting for Charlton Comics. Gill told Spillane to meet his brother, Ray Gill, who wrote for Funnies Inc., an outfit that packaged comic books for different publishers. Spillane soon began writing an eight-page story every day. He concocted adventures for major 1940s comic book characters, including Captain Marvel, Superman, Batman and Captain America. In the early 1940s, working for Funnies, Inc., he wrote two-page text stories which were syndicated to various comic book publishers, including Timely Comics.
Mickey Spillane | Comic books
Born in Pori, Finland, Klaus Nordling moved to the United States as a toddler in 1912. He broke into art professionally as a gag cartoonist for "Americana Magazine" in the 1930s. From 1935 to 1937, he wrote and drew the weekly newspaper comic strip "Baron Munchausen" for Van Tine Features, under the pen name Fred Nordley. In 1939, he joined the studio Eisner & Iger, a prominent comic book "packager" that produced comics on demand for publishers entering the new medium during the late-1930s and 1940s period fans and historians call the Golden Age of Comic Books. Due to Golden Age comics work often going unsigned, comprehensive credits are difficult if not impossible to ascertain.
Klaus Nordling | Early life and career
Harry J. Tuthill (May 10, 1885–January 25, 1957)was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip "The Bungle Family".
Harry J. Tuthill | Introduction
Gifford's prolific career as a cartoonist included both newspaper strips and comics, almost entirely for British publishers. His first published work was "Magical Monty" for "All-Fun Comics" (1942) at the age of 14, with a contribution to "The Dandy" the same year, and briefly worked as junior cartoonist for the newspaper "Reynold's News" (1944–45). He collaborated on comics writing and drawing with school friend Bob Monkhouse while they were still pupils at Dulwich College together. After his National Service, Gifford drew the "Telestrip" cartoon for the "London Evening News", continuing in "Rex magazine" (1971–72), and on bubblegum and cigarette sweet packets.
Denis Gifford | Comic art and comic writing: 1942–82
In 1934, he began his cartooning career by contributing to the Communist Party publication "New Masses" and subsequently joined the publication's staff, becoming its art editor and redesigning the magazine's layout. He remained with the magazine until 1940 and embarked on a career drawing comic strips in a series in "Collier's" magazine named "The Little Man with the Eyes". In 1942, he developed the "Barnaby" strip which would make him famous for the left-wing daily newspaper "PM". The children's book "Harold and the Purple Crayon" was published in 1955. He died of lung cancer in 1975.
Crockett Johnson | Biography
Robert C. Harvey (born 1937), is an American author, critic and cartoonist. He has written a number of books on the history and theory of cartooning, with special focus on the comic strip, and he has also worked as a freelance cartoonist.
R. C. Harvey | Introduction
Raymond Harold Osrin (October 5, 1928 – April 3, 2001) was an American comic book artist and cartoonist. He was most notable for his work in the Golden Age of comic books. Later, he took a position as the editorial cartoonist for the Cleveland "Plain Dealer", where his political cartoons appeared daily for more than 30 years.
Ray Osrin | Introduction
Chester Gould (; November 20, 1900 – May 11, 1985) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the "Dick Tracy" comic strip, which he wrote and drew from 1931 to 1977, incorporating numerous colorful and monstrous villains.
Chester Gould | Introduction
Fuller has had no significant contributions in the comics industry since the early 1990s.
Larry Fuller (cartoonist) | Ful-Horne Productions
The numerous cartoonists who contributed to "This Week" included Irwin Caplan, Dick Cavalli, Chon Day, Robert Day, Rowland Emett, Paul Giambarba, Tom Henderson, Bil Keane, Bill King, Clyde Lamb, Harry Mace, Roy McKie, Ronald Searle, Vahan Shirvanian, Ton Smits, Ralph Stein, Henry Syverson, George Wolfe and Bill Yates. Giambarba's series of "Angelino" cartoons ran in "This Week" during the late 1950s. Caplan contributed a regular weekly thematic grouping of cartoons, sometimes in the form of a vertical comic strip. Cartoonist Stein was also "This Week"'s Auto Editor, expanding his material into a book, "This Week's Glove-Compartment Auto Book" (Random House, 1964).
This Week (magazine) | Cartoonists
According to his 2013 autobiography, "Strip Show: 25 Years of Comix, Controversy & Copyright Infringement", Wartella began his professional career at age ten Later, while a student at The University of Virginia, Wartella created the absurdist art comic "Ackxhpæz" (1994–1996) which he then expanded and nationally self-syndicated to alternative weekly newspapers (as "Nuts") from 1998–2000. The humor in many of the cartoons was controversial as exemplified in a 1999 comic about the Columbine High School massacre which prompted an outcry when it was published in Denver. From 2007 to 2009, Wartella's intricate single-panel "reportorial" cartoons began appearing regularly in "The Village Voice", where he is still listed as an honorary contributor.
M. Wartella | Print career
Burnand was born in central London, the only child of Francis Burnand and his first wife Emma, "née" Cowley, who died when her son was eight days old. Burnand senior, a stockbroker, was descended from an old Savoyard family, prominent in the silk trade; his wife was a descendant of the poet and dramatist Hannah Cowley. Burnand was educated at Eton, where, aged fifteen, he wrote a farce, "Guy Fawkes Day", played at Cookesley's house, and subsequently at the Theatre Royal, Worthing. While at Eton, he submitted some illustrations to the comic weekly magazine, "Punch", one or two of which were published.
F. C. Burnand | Early years
Moe Worth) and future "Mad" cartoonists Dave Berg and Al Jaffee. Later in his career, Fago oversaw Pendulum Press' "Now Age Books" line of comic book adaptations of literary classics.
Vincent Fago | Introduction
Alvah Posen (October 2, 1894 - June 10, 1960) was an American cartoonist on several comic strips, but he is best known for his 1933-1960 comic strip "Sweeney & Son" and as co-producer of the now-lost Marx Brothers film, "Humor Risk" (1921).
Al Posen | Introduction
Some of Spinney's artwork includes the 1996 painting called "Luna Bird", showing Big Bird walking on the moon, and the 1997 painting "Autumn", showing him playing in autumn leaves. Spinney also drew the drawing of Mr. Hooper that sits near Big Bird's nest.
Caroll Spinney | Artwork
Marvin Townsend (July 2, 1915 - November 26, 1999) was an American cartoonist known for his gag comics featured in various publications including "Treasure Chest Fun and Fact", "Cartoon Spice", and pulp magazines such as "Amazing Stories", "Argosy" and others. Townsend was born in Kansas City, Missouri.
Marvin Townsend | Introduction
Niebour also drew advertisements and worked for Punch.
Ronald Niebour | Cartoonist
Cartoonist Jack Cole had enjoyed considerable success in the comic book industry in the 1940s, scripting and drawing the exploits of such characters as The Claw, Daredevil, The Comet, Midnight, and Plastic Man, as well as (under the pen name Ralph Johns) producing humorous fillers featuring the detective Wun Cloo and the superheroic Burp the Twerp, among others. Then, in the fifties, he broke into the lucrative "slick" magazine market, turning out highly regarded cartoons for Hugh Hefner's "Playboy", and some of that work was either collected into a book or separately merchandised. But his lifelong goal had been to create a newspaper comic strip, the so-called "ultimate achievement" of most cartoonists.
Betsy and Me | Overview
In 1948, he did freelance gag cartoons for "Look", "Punch", "The Philadelphia Inquirer", "True", "Argosy" and "Ladies’ Home Journal". Norment was an editor of humor magazines at Dell Publishing, including "1000 Jokes", from 1954 to 1965, and during that same period he edited "Cartoonist" for the National Cartoonists Society. In the mid-1960s, he edited "A Million Laughs" magazine for Laugh Publications. From 1966 to 1968, Norment worked with Norcross Greeting Cards and the Famous Artists School. In 1968, he began selling watercolors and serigraphs at local studios and galleries in Connecticut. "The New Yorker" published covers by Norment on the March 6, 1978 issue and the January 28, 1980 issue.
John Norment | Gag cartoons
Robert Winsor McCay (21 June 1896 – 21 April 1962) was an American cartoonist during the golden age of comic books. He worked professionally under the names R. Winsor McCay, Winsor McCay Jr., and Bob McCay. He was the son of cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay.
Bob McCay | Introduction
William Carl Schelly (November 2, 1951 – September 12, 2019) was an Eisner Award-winning author who chronicled the history of comic books and comic book fandom, and wrote biographies of comic book creators, including Otto Binder, L.B. Cole, Joe Kubert, Harvey Kurtzman, John Stanley, and James Warren as well as silent film comedian Harry Langdon.
Bill Schelly | Introduction
Howard Victor Chaykin (; born October 7, 1950) is an American comic book artist and writer. Chaykin’s influences include his one-time employer and mentor, Gil Kane, and the mid-20th century illustrators Robert Fawcett and Al Parker.
Howard Chaykin | Introduction
George Wildman (July 31, 1927 – May 22, 2016) was an American cartoonist most noted for his work in the comic books industry. From 1971 until 1985 he was a top editor at Charlton Comics, where he also became the long-time regular artist on "Popeye" comic books.
George Wildman | Introduction
"Aart Clerkx." "Lambiek.net". N.p., 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 15 May 2019. "Alain Dodier." "Lambiek.net". N.p., 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 14 May 2019. "Albert Funke Küpper." "Lambiek.net". N.p., 01 Jan. 1970. Web. 15 May 2019.
List of comics creators | Sources
Gantz graduated from The High School of Music & Art in New York City, the National Academy of Design at Iowa State University. He penciled and inked comic books in the 1940s and 1950s, working for Timely Comics's humor features like Gandy Goose, Sharpy Fox, Mighty Mouse, Patsy Walker, and Super Rabbit. In the latter half of the 1950s he worked for Gilberton on "Classics Illustrated". From 1950 to 1959, he assisted Charles M. Schulz on scripts for "Peanuts".
Dave Gantz | Biography
Owen McCarron (1929 in Halifax, Nova Scotia – June 27, 2005) was a Canadian cartoonist and publisher. As a publisher, he was a prolific packager of promotional comic books. He also produced work for American comic book publishers, including Charlton Comics, DC Comics and Marvel.
Owen McCarron | Introduction
Carol Tyler (born November 20, 1951) is an American painter, educator, comedian, and eleven-time Eisner Award-nominated cartoonist known for her autobiographical comics. She has received multiple honors for her work including the Cartoonist Studio Prize, the Ohio Arts Council Excellence Award, and was declared a Master Cartoonist at the 2016 Cartoon Crossroads Columbus Festival at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum.
Carol Tyler | Introduction
Strickler, Dave. "Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index." Cambria, California: Comics Access, 1995.
Dudley Fisher | Sources
However, he says that he does not "believe my style suits ," and did not enjoy working from scripts written by American writers who, he felt must have "watched too much television as children," peppering their scripts with TV/film terminology and tropes.
Arthur Ranson | Other comics work
Peter Millar (1929 – 2003) was an American illustrator, cartoonist, and drag racer best known for his work with "CARtoons" and "DRAG Cartoons" magazines. Millar often used the pen name "Millarkey".
Pete Millar | Introduction
James Frederick Thurman (March 13, 1935 – April 14, 2007) was an American actor, writer, director, cartoonist, and producer. He is best known for the writings of TV gags for the likes of Bob Hope, Bob Newhart, Carol Burnett, Bill Cosby, and Dean Martin.
Jim Thurman | Introduction
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He looked through blogs and convention panels for the "total package", which he said was the ability to write and draw; something that many independent comic book artists possess. In addition, Quintel attended many open shows at CalArtsan eight-hour festival of student animation. The style and sensibility of "Regular Show" was difficult to work with in the beginning; the artists struggled to create a natural, sitcom-like sound for the series.
Regular Show | Creation
After He became a syndicated cartoonist, a former teacher of his told him that "I can't believe you're still doing the same crap you were doing in junior high, and now getting paid for it." In a 2014 interview with "L'Idea", Tatulli cited Berkeley Breathed 's "Bloom County", Bill Watterson's "Calvin and Hobbes", Garry Trudeau's "Doonesbury" and the ensemble at "Mad" magazine as being the cartoons that most influenced his career and style as a cartoonist.
Mark Tatulli | Introduction
Clare Victor Dwiggins (June 16, 1874 – October 26, 1958) was an American cartoonist who signed his work Dwig. Dwiggins created a number of comic strips and single-panel cartoons for various American newspapers and newspaper syndicates from 1897 until 1945, including his best-known strip, the long-running "School Days" (which appeared under a number of different titles).
Clare Victor Dwiggins | Introduction
In "100 Years of American Newspaper Comics", Dennis Wepman wrote that Evans "taught junior and senior high school art in his native California, worked as promotion manager and graphic artist for a TV station in Colorado, and entertained with a robot at trade shows and fairs before he sold "Luann" to News America Syndicate in 1984." Evans wrote a musical based on Luann, "Luann: Scenes in a Teen's Life", which debuted March 2008 at Palomar College in San Marcos, California. It was directed by Dana Case. Prior to "Luann", Evans published the comic strip "Fogarty", distributed free to high school newspapers.
Greg Evans (cartoonist) | Career
Creig Valentine Flessel (February 2, 1912 – July 17, 2008) was an American comic book artist and an illustrator and cartoonist for magazines ranging from "Boys' Life" to "Playboy". One of the earliest comic book illustrators, he was a 2006 nominee for induction into the comics industry's Will Eisner Hall of Fame.
Creig Flessel | Introduction
His parents encouraged him in his artistic pursuits. Later, they recalled him as a "conservative child" — imaginative, but "not in a fantasy way", and certainly nothing like the character of Calvin that he later created. Watterson found avenues for his cartooning talents throughout primary and secondary school, creating high school-themed super hero comics with his friends and contributing cartoons and art to the school newspaper and yearbook. From 1976 to 1980, Watterson attended Kenyon College and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. He had already decided on a career in cartooning, but he felt his studies would help him move into editorial cartooning.
Bill Watterson | Early life
In addition he wrote several humorous books, including "Doing It with Style", in which he revived his collaboration with Quentin Crisp.
Donald Carroll | Columnist and humourist
At DC, then the leading comic-book company and the home of Batman and Superman, Grandenetti drew some of everything that was not a superhero. Beginning with "Western Comics" #27 (Sept. 1951), Grandenetti did Western comics ("All-Star Western"), crime fiction ("Racket Squad in Action", "Gang Busters", "Mr. District Attorney"), science fiction ("Strange Adventures"), and mystery-suspense ("House of Mystery"), but made his mark as one of DC's signature war comics artists, drawing hundreds of anthological stories and covers in a dozen years' worth of such titles as "All-American Men of War", "G.I. Combat", "Our Army at War", "Our Fighting Forces", and "Star Spangled War Stories".
Jerry Grandenetti | DC Comics
In 1952, he exited the "Mirror" for the tabloid "Daily Sketch". He drew "Pip Squeak and Wilfred" until 1956 when he left Selsey and emigrated with his family to Canada. He launched his last strip, "Jimmy Gimmicks", in 1957, but it lasted only two months. McClelland had a working method that expedited his production. He would pencil 20 weeks of strips at one session, writing dialogue as he progressed and then ink these in outline. Lastly, he would go back and fill in the blacks.
Hugh McClelland (cartoonist) | Drawing for "Sketch"
Donald Trachte (May 21, 1915 – May 4, 2005) was an American cartoonist known for his work on the comic strip "Henry".
Don Trachte | Introduction
Don Quinn (November 18, 1900 – December 30, 1967) was an American comedy writer who started out as a cartoonist based in Chicago. According to sources, Quinn's career as a cartoonist was short-lived but his career as a writer began after he realized that the magazines and newspapers threw away his drawings he sent in but kept his captions. Quinn was best known as the sole writer (later head writer to Phil Leslie) of the popular old-time radio show "Fibber McGee and Molly" for 15 years and as the writer for the program's stars Jim and Marian Jordan for 20 years.
Don Quinn | Introduction
Vaughn Richard Shoemaker (August 11, 1902 Chicago, Illinois – August 18, 1991 Carol Stream, Illinois) was an American editorial cartoonist. He won the 1938 and 1947 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning and created the character John Q. Public. Shoemaker started his career at the "Chicago Daily News" and spent 22 years there. His 1938 Pulitzer cartoon for the paper was "The Road Back", featuring a World War I soldier marching back to war. The 1947 winning cartoon for the paper was "Still Racing His Shadow", featuring "new wage demands" of workers trying to outrun his shadow "cost of living". He went on to work for the "New York Herald Tribune", the "Chicago American", and "Chicago Today".
Vaughn Shoemaker | Introduction