Cliff Sterrett

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Cliff Sterrett ( December 12, 1883 in Fergus Falls , Minnesota , † December 28, 1964 ) was an American illustrator, caricaturist, cartoonist and writer . He was best known for the comic strip Polly and Her Pals .

life and work

At the age of 18, Sterrett moved to New York, where he attended the Chase School of Art . From 1904 to 1908 he worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for the New York Herald , then for the New York Times and later for other newspapers. Sterrett gained his first experience with drawing comics at the New York Evening Telegram , for which he drew the day trip Ventriloquial Vag in 1911 , followed a short time later by more with the titles When a Man's Married , Before And After and For This We Have daughters followed. In 1912 he was poached by William Randolph Hearst and published on December 4, 1912 the first strip of Polly and Her Pals in the New York Journal , initially under the title Positive Polly ; the first Sunday trip followed a good year later on December 28, 1913. For the Sunday pages, Sterrett developed other strips such as Damon and Pythias (later renamed Dot and Dash ), Sweethearts and Wives (later renamed Belles and Wedding Bells ) and And So They Were never married . Sterrett gave up Polly and Her Pals' day trip in 1935, and held the Sunday side until the strip was discontinued in 1958.

meaning

From the 1920s onwards, Sterrett incorporated cubist , surrealist and expressionist elements into his comics and inspired various illustrator colleagues, for example Martin Branner . Andreas C. Knigge honors Sterrett as "one of the most innovative and best draftsmen of his era " and places him on a par with Lyonel Feininger and Winsor McCay .

literature

  • Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , pp. 416-417

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cliff Sterrett at lambiek.net (English) , accessed on September 16, 2009
  2. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon , Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 417
personal data
SURNAME Sterrett, Cliff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American illustrator, caricaturist, comic book artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Fergus Falls , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1964