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Thomas Jefferson Machamer (1900 – August 15, 1960) was an American cartoonist and illustrator known especially for his drawings of glamorous women. He also wrote and acted in a series of short comedy films in the 1930s.
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Thomas Jefferson Machamer (1900 – August 15, 1960) was an American cartoonist and illustrator known especially for his drawings of glamorous women. He also wrote and acted in a series of short comedy films in the 1930s.
Career as an illustrator
Machamer was born inNebraska
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. After he graduated from the University of Nebraska
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he became a staff artist for ''The Kansas City Star
''The Kansas City Star'' is a newspaper based in Kansas City, Missouri. Published since 1880, the paper is the recipient of eight Pulitzer Prizes. ''The Star'' is most notable for its influence on the career of President Harry S. Truman and as ...
'' newspaper.Nadel 2006, p. 311. In 1922 he moved to New York City and joined the staff of the humor magazine '' Judge''.
From 1928 until 1930 he wrote and drew a comic strip for King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate, Inc. is a American content distribution and animation studio, consumer product licensing and print syndication company owned by Hearst Communications that distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editoria ...
called ''Petting Patty'', initially as a daily strip and later also as a Sunday color feature. In 1932, his comic strip ''Gags and Gals'' made its debut in the ''New York Mirror''. This strip proved a greater popular success, and ran until 1938. According to Dan Nadel, ''Gags and Gals'' displayed the elements that typified most of Machamer's work: "beautiful dominant women, broad shouldered and impeccably dressed, accompanied by hapless, unattractive men, sometimes short and mustachioed, with just a tuft of hair atop a bald pate—apparently a self portrait." Machamer's style has been compared to that of Russell Patterson
Russell Patterson (December 26, 1893 – March 17, 1977) was an American cartoonist, illustrator and scenic designer. Patterson's art deco magazine illustrations helped develop and promote the idea of the 1920s and 1930s fashion style known as t ...
, who may have influenced him.
In 1946, Machamer published a how-to book for aspiring cartoonists, ''Laugh and Draw with Jefferson Machamer''. Beginning in the 1940s, he also operated a correspondence course from his home.
He is mentioned in John O'Hara
John Henry O'Hara (January 31, 1905 – April 11, 1970) was one of America's most prolific writers of short stories, credited with helping to invent ''The New Yorker'' magazine short story style.John O'Hara: Stories, Charles McGrath, ed., The L ...
's 1935 novel ''BUtterfield 8
''BUtterfield 8'' is a 1960 American drama film directed by Daniel Mann, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Laurence Harvey. Taylor won her first Academy Award for her performance in a leading role. The film was based on a 1935 novel of the same na ...
'': "'I'll be over before you can say Jefferson Machamer.' 'Jefferson Machamer,' she said."
Film work
Between 1936 and 1938, Machamer wrote and acted in a series of short comic films made byEducational Pictures
Educational Pictures, also known as Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. or Educational Films Corporation of America, was an American film production and film distribution company founded in 1916 by Earle (E. W.) Hammons (1882–1962). Educational pr ...
, which included ''Comic Artist's Home Life'', ''Wanna Be a Model?'', and ''Cute Crime''.
Personal life
From 1934 until his death he was married to the actressPauline Moore
Pauline Moore (born Pauline Joless Love; June 17, 1914 – December 7, 2001) was an American actress known for her roles in Western and B movies during the 1930s and 1940s.
Early years
Moore was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. After her father ...
.December 15, 2001, ''The New York Times''. Retrieved July 26, 2013. Jefferson Machamer died in
Santa Monica, California
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on August 15, 1960.
Notes
References
*Levy, F. D., & Facts on File, Inc. (1979). ''Obituaries on file''. New York: Facts on File. *Nadel, D. (2006). ''Art out of time: Unknown comics visionaries, 1900-1969''. New York: Abrams. *Waugh, C. (1991). ''The comics''. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.External links
*Lambiek Comiclopedia article.
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