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[1] [2] Hager's nickname stems from his time as a dentist in Terre Haute, Indiana before he moved to Seattle, Washington in 1889 and began working for the Seattle Times. [1] [2] Hager retired in 1925 due to blindness. [1] [2] In Seattle he was known as a weatherman and for his commentaries (using a cartoon of the Umbrella Man and of a talking ...
In addition to the latter Seattle Cartoonists Club, many of the artists met using a different name, The Associated Cartoon Artists of Seattle. [6] The men published an article in the Seattle Times about a competition they were having with a small local newspaper editor, H. A. Chadwick, over the idea for what became their first cartoon book. [6]
Gary Larson (born August 14, 1950) is an American cartoonist who created The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. [1] The series ended on January 1, 1995, though since 2020 Larson has published additional comics online.
The following is a list of comic strips.Dates after names indicate the time frames when the strips appeared. There is usually a fair degree of accuracy about a start date, but because of rights being transferred or the very gradual loss of appeal of a particular strip, the termination date is sometimes uncertain.
This was the normal look for the cartoon. Beginning in 1909, cartoonist John Ross "Dok" Hager drew a daily cartoon of Patten for the front page of Seattle Daily Times, [7] calling him "'Sport". With his duck sidekick named the "Kid" (who also sometimes sported an umbrella hat), the cartoon Umbrella Man dispensed wit and wisdom along with ...
Tom Toro is one of those artists whose work feels like a breath of fresh air. Best known for his sharp, single-panel cartoons in The New Yorker and the heartfelt charm of his comic strip Home Free ...
Frank Calvert (1876–1920) was a Seattle Times newspaper artist and cartoonist, and member of the Seattle Cartoonists' Club. [3] In 1911, he edited a book for the club, The cartoon; a reference book of Seattle's successful men, which included biographies, photos and caricatures of men the club considered influential in Seattle.
Julius Pierpont "J. P." Patches was a clown and the main character on The J. P. Patches Show, an Emmy Award-winning local children's television show on Seattle station KIRO-TV, produced from 1958 to 1981. J.P. Patches was played by show creator and Seattle children's entertainer Chris Wedes (April 3, 1928 – July 22