In SupHermann 's collection
Description
George McManus
Daily Comic Strip
Daté du 3 septembre 1930
King Features Syndicate
Titre au crayon papier "MINIATURE"
Daily Comic Strip
Daté du 3 septembre 1930
King Features Syndicate
Titre au crayon papier "MINIATURE"
Inscriptions
Signée en dernière case
Comment
La famille Illico, un grand strip sur un immigrant Irlandais devenu rapidement riche aux Etats-Unis et qui refuse obstinément de changer de mode de vie au grand desarroi de sa femme et de sa fille.
L’idée viendra à l’auteur en regardant jeune « The Rising Generation », une comédie musicale de William Gill.
De l’humour sur des thêmes intemporels servi par un trait fin et précis avec du design dans les décors.
La premiere case est un parfait exemple d’influence art nouveau.
McManus influencera un certain Georges Remi.
Résumé du strip : Jiggs wants nothing to do with the new miniature golf course on the roof... like that's going to happen!
L’idée viendra à l’auteur en regardant jeune « The Rising Generation », une comédie musicale de William Gill.
De l’humour sur des thêmes intemporels servi par un trait fin et précis avec du design dans les décors.
La premiere case est un parfait exemple d’influence art nouveau.
McManus influencera un certain Georges Remi.
Résumé du strip : Jiggs wants nothing to do with the new miniature golf course on the roof... like that's going to happen!
Thematics
5 comments
To leave a comment on that piece, please log in
About George McManus
George McManus was born of Irish parents in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1884. He dropped out of school at age fifteen and started working at the Saint Louis Republic. This newspaper published his first comic, 'Alma and Oliver'. In 1904, after winning some money, he moved to New York and was employed by the New York World. For this journal, he worked on several running stories, such as 'Snoozer', 'The Merry Marcelene', 'Panhandle Pete', 'Ready Money Ladies', 'Let George Do It', 'Cheerful Charlie' and 'Nibsby the Newsboy in Funny Fairyland'.
In 1904, McManus created 'The Newlyweds', about an elegant young couple and their baby, Snookums. This series, the first family strip in an American newspaper, became quite popular and caused rival newspaper The New York American to invite McManus to work for them, which he did from 1912 on.
He continued 'The Newlyweds', now renamed 'Their Only Child', and started up several other daily comics, like 'Rosie's Beau', 'Love Affairs of a Mutton Head', 'Spareribs and Gravy' and the famous 'Bringing Up Father'.
George McManus has influenced a great number of artists, including Hergé and Joost Swarte. With his subtle but relentless humor, he described American society, ridiculing its insatiable desire for luxury and its egotism.
Text (c) Lambiek
