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Lank Leonard
Frank E. Leonard (January 2, 1896 – August 1, 1970), better known as Lank Leonard, was an American cartoonist artist who created the long-running comic strip ''Mickey Finn (comic strip), Mickey Finn'', which he drew for more than three decades. Biography Early life and career Born in Port Chester, New York in 1896, Leonard decided early in his childhood that he wanted to be a cartoonist while he made copies of ''Buster Brown'', ''Happy Hooligan'', ''Little Nemo'' and ''The Katzenjammer Kids'', eventually creating his own characters. In high school, he was the art editor of his school newspaper. After his high school graduation, Leonard took a job as a bookkeeper at a local factory, where he also drew cartoons for the plant's house organ. He studied at a business college from 1914 to 1915, then served in the U.S. Army during World War I. Returning from the service, Leonard designed a new type of suction sole basketball shoe for a sporting goods firm, which eventually hired him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Chester, New York
Port Chester is a administrative divisions of New York#Village, village in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York and the largest part of the town of Rye (town), New York, Rye in Westchester County, New York, Westchester County by population. At the 2010 United States census, 2010 U.S. census, the village had a population of 28,967 and was the list of villages in New York (state), fifth-most populous village in New York State. In 2019, its population grew to a census-estimated 29,342 residents. Located in southeast Westchester, Port Chester forms part of the New York metropolitan area, New York City metropolitan statistical area. Port Chester borders Connecticut and the town of Greenwich, Connecticut, Greenwich to the east. It is one of only 12 villages in New York still incorporated under a municipal charter, charter; other villages either incorporated or reincorporated under the provisions of Village Law. The village of Port Chester is nicknamed the "Gateway to New Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bray Productions
Bray Productions was a pioneering American animation studio that produced several popular cartoons during the years of World War I and the early interwar era, becoming a springboard for several key animators of the 20th century, including the Fleischer brothers, Walter Lantz, Paul Terry, Shamus Culhane and Grim Natwick among others. History The studio was founded sometime before 1912 by John Randolph Bray. It was perhaps one of the first studios entirely devoted to serial animation at the time instead of one-off experiments. Its first series was Bray's '' Colonel Heeza Liar'', but from the beginning, the studio brought in outsiders to direct promising new series. Carl Anderson, later known for the comic strip '' Henry'', directed ''The Police Dog'' from the beginning of the company. The year 1915 brought Earl Hurd and Paul Terry; the former became J. R. Bray's business partner and directed '' Bobby Bumps'', the latter was employed under duress and directed ''Farmer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miami, Florida
Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a population of 6.14 million, is the second-largest metropolitan area in the Southeastern United States, Southeast after Atlanta metropolitan area, Atlanta, and the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, ninth-largest in the United States. With a population of 442,241 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, Miami is the List of municipalities in Florida, second-most populous city in Florida, after Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville. Miami has the List of tallest buildings in the United States#Cities with the most skyscrapers, third-largest skyline in the U.S. with over List of tallest buildings in Miami, 300 high-rises, 70 of which exceed . Miami is a major center and leader in finance, commerce, culture, arts, and internation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topper (comic Strip)
550px, Billy DeBeck's ''Barney Google'' (October 7, 1934), a page featuring two toppers: ''Bunky'' and the single-panel ''Knee-Hi-Knoodles''. A topper in comic strip parlance is a small secondary strip seen along with a larger Sunday strip. In the 1920s and 1930s, leading cartoonists were given full pages in the Sunday comics sections, allowing them to add smaller strips and single-panel cartoons to their page. Toppers usually were drawn by the same artist as the larger strip. These strips usually were positioned at the top of the page (hence their name), but they sometimes ran beneath the main strip. History Toppers were introduced by King Features Syndicate during the 1920s, enabling newspaper editors to claim more comic strips without adding more pages. The practice allowed newspapers to drop the topper and place another strip or an additional advertisement into the Sunday comics section. They also made it possible to reformat a strip from full-page size to tabloid si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony DiPreta
Anthony Louis DiPreta (July 9, 1921 – June 2, 2010) was an American comic book and comic strip artist active from the 1940s Golden Age of comic books. He was the longtime successor artist of the comic strip '' Joe Palooka'' (1959–84) and drew the '' Rex Morgan, M.D.'' daily strip from 1983 until DiPreta's retirement in 2000. Early life and career Born July 9, 1921, in Stamford, Connecticut,Tony Di Preta icat the Archived October 18, 2011. Note: Tony ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morris Weiss
Morris S. Weiss (August 11, 1915 – May 18, 2014) was an American comic book and comic strip artist and writer. Active from the 1930s through the mid-1970s, he created the teen-comedy character Margie for Timely Comics, the 1940s predecessor of Marvel Comics, and was the final cartoonist on the comic strip '' Mickey Finn''. He also worked as a writer or illustrator on numerous other strips, including '' Joe Palooka''. Biography Early life and career Morris Weiss was born in 1915 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in New York City, New York, where he studied sign-painting as a vocational elective in high school. Additional . He broke into the comics field in 1934 with brief stints as the letterer for the comic strip ''Minute Movies'' by Ed Wheelan, and as an assistant on the '' Joe Jinks'' comic strip; in the early 1940s, United Features Syndicate hired him to draw ''Joe Jinks''.Harvey, R. C. "Morris Weiss, Mickey Finn, and the Palooka", ''Cartoonist Profiles'', September ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mart Bailey
Mart may refer to: * Mart, or marketplace, a location where people regularly gather for the purchase and sale of provisions, livestock, and other goods * Mart (broadcaster), a local broadcasting station in Amsterdam * Mart (given name) * ''Mart.'', taxonomic author abbreviation for Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794–1868), German botanist * Mart (Syriac), Syriac title for women saints * Mart, Texas, a community in the United States * Data mart, an approach to handling big data Abbreviations * Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, a museum in Italy * Mississippi Aerial River Transit, a demolished gondola lift in New Orleans, Louisiana * Montachusett Regional Transit Authority * Multiple Additive Regression Trees, a commercial name of gradient boosting See also * Kmart * Walmart Walmart Inc. (; formerly Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.) is an American multinational retail corporation that operates a chain of hypermarkets (also called supercenters), disc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Finn (comics)
''Mickey Finn'' was an American comic strip created by cartoonist Lank Leonard, which was Print syndication, syndicated to newspapers from April 6, 1936 to September 10, 1977. The successful lighthearted strip struck a balance between comedy and drama. It was adapted to a 400-page Big Little Book series, Little Big Book and was reprinted in several comic book series throughout the 1930s and 1940s. Publication history Distributed by the McNaught Syndicate, cartoonist Lank Leonard's ''Mickey Finn'' debuted as a daily strip on Monday, April 6, 1936. The Sunday strip, which eventually focused on the supporting character of Uncle Phil, began on May 17 of that same year. Leonard was assisted by Tony DiPreta (from 1945–50) and by Mart Bailey from 1950 in New York. In 1952, Bailey moved to Miami to help Leonard with the strip until July 1959. Morris Weiss, Leonard's assistant from 1936 to 1943 and again from 1960 on, took over following Leonard's illness in 1968, though under Leonard' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McNaught Syndicate
The McNaught Syndicate was an American newspaper syndicate founded in 1922. It was established by Virgil Venice McNitt (who gave it his name) and Charles V. McAdam. Its best known contents were the columns by Will Rogers and O. O. McIntyre, the ''Dear Abby'' letters section and comic strips, including ''Joe Palooka'' and '' Heathcliff''. It folded in September 1989. History Virgil McNitt (1881–1964) first tried his hand at publishing a magazine, the ''McNaught Magazine'', which failed. He then, in 1910, started the Central Press Association syndication service, with offices in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1920, McNitt founded the Central Press Association of New York City. (Although both services had the same name, they were separate operations.)Watson, Elmo Scott. "CHAPTER VIII: Recent Developments in Syndicate History 1921-1935," ''History of Newspaper Syndicates''Archived at ''Stripper's Guide'' In 1922, McNitt and Charles V. McAdam (1892–1985) absorbed the operations of the New Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
