Word: mccay
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power of the pictured word. He also employs Cartoonist James ("Jimmie") Swinnerton, who pictures Tammany as a little tiger-yegg with a slouch cap; Cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper, of "Happy Hooligan" fame, who pictures Tammany as an old-man-of-the-sea on the donkey's back; Cartoonist Windsor McCay, nightmare man, creator of "Little Nemo," who illustrates the Hearst Sunday supplements with shuddersome, anti-Tammany compositions...
What newspaper reader aged 5 to 75 can name the creator of Flip, Dr. Pill, Little Nemo and "Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend" (Windsor McCay)? Impostors who can imitate Mutt and Jeff, or Father, on restaurant table cloths, can and do afford Cartoonists Bud Fisher and George McManus great pain for the free meals they thus pilfer, the checks they thus get cashed. It is no longer only the artist that is put under contract but his pen- children, who are copyrighted by the middleman. The Katzenjammer Kids sprang from a fertile organism called Rudolph Dirks, and have been signed...