Gus Edson

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Gus Edson (born September 20, 1901 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † September 26, 1966 in Stamford , Connecticut ) was an American cartoonist, comic artist and author .

life and work

Edson dropped out of school at the age of 17 and joined the United States Army , which deployed him in Australia in 1918. After brief studies at New York's Pratt Institute and the Art Students League of New York , Edson worked as a sports cartoonist for the New York Evening Graphic from 1925 to 1928 . He then worked, among other things, as a freelancer and as an occasional ghost draftsman, before working again as a sports cartoonist from 1931 to 1935, this time for the New York Daily News . During this time he created his first comic strip with Streaky , whom he drew from 1933 to 1935. After Sidney Smith's accidental death in 1935, the publisher Joseph Medill Patterson chose Edson as his successor to continue the daily strip The Gumps . With temporary support from the later actor Martin Landau and Ray Bailey drew Edson the comic until its completion in 1959. After a stay in Italy created Edson in collaboration with the artist Irwin Hasen the acting of an orphan comic strip Dondi , who in 1961 was also made into a film and Edson wrote the screenplay for it. Edson died of heart failure in 1966; Dondi continued into the 1980s.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin Landau's biography on imdb.com (English) , accessed on November 16, 2011
  2. ↑ Ray Bailey on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on November 16, 2011
  3. ↑ Dondi. Internet Movie Database , accessed June 10, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Edson, Gus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic book artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1966
Place of death Stamford , Connecticut