Wallace A. Carlson

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Wallace A. Carlson (born March 28, 1894 in St. Louis , Missouri , † May 9, 1967 in Chicago ) was an American comic artist and producer , director and screenwriter of animated films . Carlson is considered one of the pioneers of animation.

Life

Wallace A. Carlson began his career in 1905 as an errand boy for the Chicago daily Inter-Ocean . In 1915 he turned to animation and until 1921 worked for various film companies on over 100 films. For Essanay , Carlson created the series about Dreamy Dud , a boy with an exuberant imagination and a practical dog, and Joe Boko , for John Randolph Bray's company, JR Bray Studios , the film company that dominated the animation market before World War I. Series about Goodrich Dirt , Otto Luck , Dud Perkins and Ginger Meggs . In 1915, Carlson drew Introducing Chaplin , a film in which Charles Chaplin played himself.

In particular, the Dreamy Dud films, which often use surreal effects, show Carlson's content and drawing closeness to Winsor McCay's comics and films about his equally dreamy hero Little Nemo . Carlson's best-known works alongside the Dreamy Dud series include the animated series The Gumps about a middle-class family based on Sidney Smith 's extremely successful comic strip of the same name , which was published from 1917 to 1959, and the comic strip The Nebbs , published from 1923 to 1944 , also about one Middle-class family that Carlson created with writer Sol Hess and that was produced as a radio show in 1945.

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SURNAME Carlson, Wallace A.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic book artist and animator
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Louis , Missouri
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1967
Place of death Chicago