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Broom Hilda
''Broom-Hilda'' is an American newspaper comic strip created by cartoonist Russell Myers. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, it depicts the misadventures of a man-crazy, cigar-smoking, beer-guzzling, 1,500-year-old witch and her motley crew of friends. The original idea for ''Broom-Hilda'' came from Elliot Caplin, brother of ''Li'l Abner'' cartoonist Al Capp. He described the main character to Myers, who responded with a sketch of the witch and several samples. Caplin, acting as Myers' business manager, submitted these to the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. Introduced on April 19, 1970, it became an immediate success. ''Broom-Hilda'' was reprinted in several collections during the 1970s and 1980s. Characters and story Although events mostly take place during the present in an unidentified forest, the setting changes. Locales change drastically from day to day—and background details can change from panel to panel within the same strip, while the characters remain stationary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Myers
Russell Kommer Myers (born October 9, 1938) is an Americans, American cartoonist best known for his newspaper comic strip ''Broom-Hilda''. Born in Pittsburg, Kansas, Myers was raised in Oklahoma where his father taught at the University of Tulsa. Myers was interested in cartooning from an early age. After his first strip submission for syndication failed, he began working for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City, MO in 1960 as an illustrator of greeting cards. He continued to submit comic strip concepts for syndication in his free time. ''Broom-Hilda'' The idea for ''Broom-Hilda'' originally came from writer Elliott Caplin, brother of cartoonist Al Capp, who described the character to Myers. Myers designed the characters and wrote the scripts. Caplin acted as Myers' business agent and submitted ''Broom-Hilda'' to the Tribune Media Services, Chicago Tribune Syndicate where it was accepted. The first strip was published on 19 April 1970. Personal Russell and Marina Myers married in 1964 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fourth Wall
The fourth wall is a performance dramatic convention, convention in which an invisible, imaginary wall separates actors from the audience. While the audience can see through this "wall", the convention assumes the actors act as if they cannot. From the 16th century onward, the rise of illusionism in staging practices, which culminated in the realism (theatre), realism and naturalism (theatre), naturalism of the Nineteenth-century theatre, theatre of the 19th century, led to the development of the fourth wall concept. The metaphor suggests a relationship to the mise-en-scène behind a proscenium, proscenium arch. When a scene is set indoors and three of the walls of its room are presented onstage, in what is known as a Box set (theatre), box set, the fourth of them would run along the line (technically called the proscenium) dividing the room from the auditorium. The ''fourth wall'', though, is a theatrical convention, rather than of set design. The actors ignore the audience, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Filmation
Filmation Associates was an American production company founded by Lou Scheimer, Hal Sutherland and Norm Prescott in 1962, before closing by Group W Productions on February 3, 1989. Located in Reseda, California, Filmation produced animated and live-action productions. Notable productions that the company produced include the DC Comics and Archie Comics animated adaptations, '' Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids'', the animated version of ''Star Trek'' and the two adaptations of the Mattel toyline ''Masters of the Universe'' (''He-Man and the Masters of the Universe'' and '' She-Ra: Princess of Power''). History Background Lou Scheimer and Filmation's main director Hal Sutherland met in 1957 while working at Larry Harmon Pictures on the made-for-TV '' Bozo'' and ''Popeye'' cartoons. Eventually Larry Harmon closed the studio by 1961. Scheimer and Sutherland went to work at a small company called True Line, one of whose owners was Marcus Lipsky, who then owned Reddi-wip w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smokey Stover
''Smokey Stover'' is an American comic strip written and drawn by cartoonist Bill Holman (cartoonist), Bill Holman from March 10, 1935, until he retired in 1972 and distributed through the ''Chicago Tribune''. It features the misadventures of the titular fireman. Background Holman was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, and moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts while working as an office boy in the ''Chicago Tribune'' art department. He relocated to New York City where he worked as a staff artist at the ''New York Herald Tribune'' and submitted freelance cartoons to magazines, including ''Collier's Weekly, Colliers'', ''The Saturday Evening Post'', ''Life (magazine), Life'', ''Judge (magazine), Judge'', and ''Everybody's Weekly''. He began ''Smokey Stover'' as a Sunday comic strip for the Tribune Media Services, Chicago Tribune Syndicate on March 10, 1935. The daily comic strip began on November 14, 1938. Overview Characters and story The madcap situat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy (comic Strip)
''Nancy'' is an American comic strip, originally written and drawn by Ernie Bushmiller and distributed by United Feature Syndicate and Andrews McMeel Syndication. Its origins lie in '' Fritzi Ritz'', a strip Bushmiller inherited from its creator Larry Whittington in 1925. After Fritzi's niece Nancy was introduced in 1933, ''Fritzi Ritz'' evolved to focus more and more on Nancy instead of Fritzi. The new strip took the old one's daily slot, while ''Fritzi Ritz'' continued as a Sunday comic, with ''Nancy'' taking the Sunday slot previously filled by Bushmiller's ''Phil Fumble'' strip beginning on October 30, 1938. History 1922 to 1982 The character of Nancy, a precocious eight-year-old, first appeared in the strip '' Fritzi Ritz'', a comic about a professional actress and her family and friends. Larry Whittington began ''Fritzi Ritz'' in 1922, and it was taken over by Bushmiller three years later. On January 2, 1933, Bushmiller introduced Fritzi's niece, Nancy. In 1949, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howard Post
Howard Post (November 2, 1926 – May 21, 2010) Alternate source: "'Dropouts' cartoonist Howard Post dies in NJ at 83", Associated Press via ''The Washington Post'', May 24, 2010 was an American animator, cartoonist, and comic strip and comic book writer-artist. Post is known for his syndicated newspaper comic strip ''The Dropouts'' which had a 13-year run and for creating DC Comics' '' Anthro''. Early life and career Born in New York City, Post grew up in the Coney Island and Sheepshead Bay neighborhoods of Brooklyn and then in The Bronx.Howard Post interview"Country Boy from the City" ''Comic Book Artist'' #5 (Summer 1999) In a 1999 interview, he recalled his start in drawing and his father's influence: As a teenager, Post attended the Hastings School of Animation, in New York City. When he was age 16 or 17, his father was stricken with tuberculosis and hospitalized, making Post the primary breadwinner for a family of four. At Paramount Pictures' animation studio, Famous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Katzenjammer Kids
''The Katzenjammer Kids'' is an American comic strip created by Rudolph Dirks in 1897 and later drawn by Harold Knerr for 35 years (1914 to 1949).Dirks profile "Born in Heide, Germany, Rudolph Dirks moved with his parents to Chicago at the age of seven". It debuted on December 12, 1897, in the ''American Humorist'', the Sunday supplement of 's ''''. The comic strip was turned into a stage play in 1903. It inspired several animated cartoons and was one of 20 strips included in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Links
Marty Links (September 5, 1917 – January 6, 2008) was an People of the United States, American cartoonist best known for her syndicated comic strip ''Emmy Lou''. Biography Born Martha B. Links in Oakland, California, she moved with her family to San Francisco, where she grew up. For six months she attended San Francisco's Fashion Art Institute, her only art training, and then began painting murals in the teenage departments of San Francisco department stores—the Emporium, the City of Paris and O'Connor Moffat. In 1940, she arrived at the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' where she drew for the "Women's World" department. Comic strips After landing an assignment to create fashion drawings for a major advertising campaign, she delivered her artwork to an ad agency account executive, who rejected the drawings and said, "This isn't what we want. These kids look more like bobby-soxers." The reaction gave her the idea for a cartoon character, and in 1944, she launched her comic stri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moon Mullins
''Moon Mullins'' is an American comic strip which had a run as both a daily and Sunday feature from June 19, 1923, to June 2, 1991. Syndicated by the Tribune Media Services, Chicago Tribune/New York News Syndicate, the strip depicts the lives of diverse lowbrow characters who reside at the Schmaltz (later Plushbottom) boarding house. The central character, Moon (short for Moonshine), is a would-be prizefighter—perpetually strapped for cash but with a roguish appetite for vice and high living. Moon took a room in the boarding house at 1323 Wump Street in 1924 and never left, staying on for 67 years. The strip was created by cartoonist Frank Willard. Origins and history Frank Henry Willard was born on September 21, 1893, in Anna, Illinois, the son of a physician. He determined to become a cartoonist early in life. After attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago in 1913, he was a staff artist with the ''Chicago Herald'' (1914–18), where he drew the Sunday kids' page ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
