15-478: John Keith Geering (9 March 1941 – 13 August 1999) was a British cartoonist with a distinctive, occasionally flamboyant style, most famous for his work for DC Thomson comics including Sparky , The Topper , Cracker , Plug , Nutty , The Beano and The Dandy . Geering's strips included: He worked at Cosgrove Hall animation studios in Manchester on Danger Mouse , Count Duckula , and
30-406: A British comics creator, writer, or artist is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comics illustrators / artists in that they produce both the literary and graphic components of
45-654: The Republican elephant . Comic strips received widespread distribution to mainstream newspapers by syndicates . Calum MacKenzie, in his preface to the exhibition catalog, The Scottish Cartoonists (Glasgow Print Studio Gallery, 1979) defined the selection criteria: Many strips were the work of two people although only one signature was displayed. Shortly after Frank Willard began Moon Mullins in 1923, he hired Ferd Johnson as his assistant. For decades, Johnson received no credit. Willard and Johnson traveled about Florida , Maine, Los Angeles , and Mexico, drawing
60-714: The Stamp Act and the Townshend Acts . The newspaper was headquartered in Philadelphia . The newspaper was first published in 1728 by Samuel Keimer and was the second newspaper to be published in the colonial Province of Pennsylvania under the name The Universal Instructor in all Arts and Sciences: and Pennsylvania Gazette , a reference to Keimer's intention to print out a page of Ephraim Chambers ' Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences in each edition. On October 2, 1729, Samuel Keimer ,
75-500: The 18th century, poked fun at contemporary politics and customs; illustrations in such style are often referred to as "Hogarthian". Following the work of Hogarth, editorial/political cartoons began to develop in England in the latter part of the 18th century under the direction of its great exponents, James Gillray and Thomas Rowlandson , both from London. Gillray explored the use of the medium for lampooning and caricature , calling
90-478: The 1989 film The BFG based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Roald Dahl . Geering's last new strip was Dean's Dino , which he drew for The Beano shortly before his death. He also produced topical and political satire cartoons for British newspapers. He had lived in the village of Comberbach with his wife for many years before his death. He died in Warrington , aged 58. This profile of
105-535: The colonies. On December 28, 1732, Franklin announced in The Gazette that he had just printed and published the first edition of The Poor Richard , also known as Poor Richard's Almanack , by Richard Saunders, Philomath. On August 6, 1741, Franklin published an editorial following the death of Andrew Hamilton , a lawyer and public figure in Philadelphia and friend of Franklin. The editorial praised
120-775: The king ( George III ), prime ministers and generals to account, and has been referred to as the father of the political cartoon. While never a professional cartoonist, Benjamin Franklin is credited with the first cartoon published in The Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754: Join, or Die , depicting the American colonies as segments of a snake. In the 19th century, professional cartoonists such as Thomas Nast , whose work appeared in Harper's Weekly , introduced other familiar American political symbols, such as
135-718: The man highly and showed Franklin had held the man in high esteem. On October 19, 1752, Franklin published a third-person account of his pioneering kite experiment in The Pennsylvania Gazette , without mentioning that he himself had performed it. While the purpose of the publication was primarily for classified ads, merchants and individuals listed notices of employment, lost and found goods and items for sale, it also reprinted foreign news. Most entries involved stories of travel. The gazette also published advertisements for runaway slaves and indentured servants . Among other firsts by The Pennsylvania Gazette ,
150-549: The newspaper was the first to publish the political cartoon Join, or Die , authored by Franklin. The cartoon resurfaced later in the 18th century as a symbol in support of the American Revolution . The paper ceased publication in 1800, ten years after Franklin's death. It is claimed that the publication later reemerged as the Saturday Evening Post in 1821. There are three known copies of
165-463: The owner of The Gazette , fell into debt and before fleeing to Barbados sold the newspaper to Benjamin Franklin and his partner Hugh Meredith , who shortened its name, as well as dropping Keimer's grandiose plan to print out the Cyclopaedia . Franklin not only printed the paper but also often contributed pieces to the paper under aliases . His newspaper soon became the most successful in
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#1732775979541180-475: The picture-making portion of the discipline of cartooning (see illustrator ). While every "cartoonist" might be considered a "comics illustrator", "comics artist", or a "comic book artist", not every "comics illustrator", "comics artist", or a "comic book artist" is a "cartoonist". Ambiguity might arise when illustrators and writers share each other's duties in authoring a work. The English satirist and editorial cartoonist William Hogarth , who emerged in
195-478: The strip while living in hotels, apartments and farmhouses. At its peak of popularity during the 1940s and 1950s, the strip ran in 350 newspapers. According to Johnson, he had been doing the strip solo for at least a decade before Willard's death in 1958: "They put my name on it then. I had been doing it about 10 years before that because Willard had heart attacks and strokes and all that stuff. The minute my name went on that thing and his name went off, 25 papers dropped
210-518: The strip. That shows you that, although I had been doing it ten years, the name means a lot." Societies and organizations Societies and organizations The Pennsylvania Gazette The Pennsylvania Gazette was one of the United States ' most prominent newspapers from 1728 until 1800. In the years leading up to the American Revolution , the newspaper served as a voice for colonial opposition to British colonial rule, especially to
225-546: The work as part of their practice. Cartoonists may work in a variety of formats, including booklets , comic strips , comic books , editorial cartoons , graphic novels , manuals , gag cartoons , storyboards , posters , shirts , books , advertisements , greeting cards , magazines , newspapers , webcomics , and video game packaging . A cartoonist's discipline encompasses both authorial and drafting disciplines (see interdisciplinary arts ). The terms "comics illustrator", "comics artist", or "comic book artist" refer to
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