Word: mutt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rookies (Karl Dane, George K. Arthur). There is something inherently funny in sassing military discipline. When a little fellow (George Arthur) is the sasser, and a bulky one (Karl Dane) symbol of the sassed, there is the added Mutt & Jeff twist. All this is stuffed into the story of a rookie at a military training camp, making for a minimum of subtlety, a maximum of facial contortion, a modicum of hilarity...
...sort of picture editorial. The narrative cartoon is by far the easiest form. The cartoonist can work a series around the adventures of certain characters, like the Gumps or the Joneses, or use a joke as the basis of the cartoon as Bud Fisher does so often in "Mutt and Jeff." These methods are comparatively simple...
...FISHER MEETS GIRL" said New York headlines. Down the bay "Bud," genial cartoonist who gets about $200,000 because he created "Mutt and Jeff," climbed on board the S. S. Conte Rosso. He greeted Trava Dawn, late of the Greenwich Village Follies. In a New York courtroom, a Supreme Court Justice listened to the once famed divorce proceedings brought against Cartoonist Fisher by the Countess de Beaumont...
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...
...Harry Conway ("Bud") Fisher started A. Mutt in the San Francisco Chronicle as a race track tipster, in 1907. Little Jeff was the inmate of an asylum Mutt visited to make wild bets in peace. Swift, efficient bundle of nerves, Mr. Fisher ran with Walter Eckersall on a championship team at the Penn Relays 25 years ago. His income, somewhere near $200,000, affords him art and idea assistants...