Albert Blashfieldin 1908
Jean Bosc
More
Bo Brown
Design for
Destination Magoo by
Pete Burness
Orlando Busino
Giampolo Cheis for
Editoriale CornoAgain, according to the
World Encyclopedia (keep in mind it was written in 1980):
GIAMPOLO CHIES (b. 1947) Italian cartoonist born in Bologna, Italy. Giampolo decided to go into cartooning after finishing his high school studies. He started his career in 1966, drawing
Virus Psik, a comic strip about a somewhat extravagant woman scientist, on texts by"
Max Bunker (Luciano Secchi). He then drew a great number of cartoons and illustrations for the monthly magazine
Eureka.
In 1971 Chies moved to Milan and briefly worked as an animator for
Gamma Film. Later that year he resumed the
Virus Psik strip and also created the monthly cartoon panel
Monodia. In these somewhat disquieting cartoons,strange objects float in the air, mechanical women nurse real-life babies, and robots weep or bleed. The air of eerie unreality is further enhanced by the total absence of captions or dialogue. Chies [was] working on a comic book adaptation of
Pinocchio, scheduled for publication in 1979.
Sam Cobean
Siegfried (Cosper) Cornelius
Campbell Cory in 1919
CAMPBELL CORY (1867-ca. 1925) American cartoonist born in Waukegan, IL, J.C. Cory was educated in Waukegan and began cartooning in New York in 1896. His style was breezy, with slashing, thick-and-thin pen strokes held together by by beautiful areas of precise, old-fashioned crosshatching; he and Fred Morgan of the
Philadelphia Inquirer were probably the last great crosshatch political cartoonists. Throughout his career the doctrinaire Democrat drew for many of America's largest newspapers and magazines, including
New York World and
Harper's WeeklyCory's significance lies in his enterprising approach to cartooning, however. He was a self-starter, almost a vagabond, who worked in many formats, experimented with the business end and was a pioneer syndicator. As a publisher, he put out the
Great West monthly in 1907-08 and the
Bee, an oversized chromolithographed humorous weekly during the Spanish-American War. In 1912, beginning a practice that was to continue for two decades, he became a paid cartoonist for a political party; the Democrats supplied Cory cartoons to any paper that could use them. Soon afterward, in the days of large-scale syndication, Cory started a syndicate, distributing his own cartoons and those of others. He ran a correspondence school and published books containing the elements of cartooning, including
Cory's Hands, and
The Cartoonist's Art. Active in other spheres as well, Cory was a prospector, miner, champion balloonist, pioneer aviator, big game hunter, sportswriter, and athlete.
Cory was responsible for helping many youngsters into professional cartooning careers.
Charles Kuhn was one, and Cory's niece,
Fanny Y. Cory was another; just after she had her first work published in
St. Nicholas, she became a featured contributor to the
Bee, and her uncle boosted her early work through syndication as well.
Louis Dalrymple, 1898
Whitney Darrow, Jr., in
Collier's
Chon Day in
True.
Eduardo Del Rio (Rius) for
Ja-Ja.
Michel Demers in
L'AuroreMICHEL DEMERS (b.1949) Cartoonist born in Quebec City, Canada. After studies in Quebec and Montreal, Michel had his first cartoon published in the French language weekly
Sept-Jours; since that time he has been contributing one cartoon to the magazine every week.
Michel Demers is [was] now busily engaged in a promising and prolific professional career. His political and gag cartoons have appeared in such publications as
Forum, Perspectives, and the daily
Le Jour. He has also produced several comic strips, the most notable being
Célestin for
Le Jour, but none have proved long-lived.
Michel has been influenced, in his graphic choice as well as in his choice of themes, by
Tomi Ungerer and
Jean-Jacques Sempé: his drawings have a dry, sparse look, while his themes lean heavily toward surrealism, social protest, and black humor.
Jean-Pierre Desclozeaux
