Jerry Iger

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Jerry Iger (1972)

Samuel Maxwell "Jerry" Iger (born August 22, 1903 , † September 5, 1990 in New York City , New York ) was an American cartoonist , comic artist and author. He was among the first to supply original material for the emerging comic book market.

life and work

Although Iger had not received appropriate training, he became a cartoonist for New York American magazine in 1925, while working on advertising assignments. In 1935 he published his own series Bobby , Peewee and Happy Daze in the comic book series Famous Funnies , which has been published since 1929 , in which only newspaper strips were reprinted at the beginning . The following year Iger became editor of Wow! What a Magazine and published the first works of Bob Kane and Will Eisner there . Together with Eisner, Iger founded his own drawing studio in 1937, which employed numerous draftsmen in the following years, including Klaus Nordling , Jack Kirby , Lou Fine and Al Feldstein . One of the studio's best-known comics was Sheena for Jumbo magazine . At the end of the 1930s Eisner left the joint venture and Iger continued to run the studio on his own until it closed in 1955. After closing his studio, Iger worked in advertising.

According to Andreas C. Knigge , Iger is "one of the most successful pioneers of the comic business", although his own comics "never became sensational successes [...]". Iger was inducted into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2009 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Jerry Iger on lambiek.net (English) , accessed on November 14, 2011
  2. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 344.
  3. ^ Andreas C. Knigge: Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 259.
  4. ↑ Complete List of Eisner Award Winners (English) ( Memento from October 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Iger, Jerry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Iger, Samuel Maxwell (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cartoonist, comic book artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1903
DATE OF DEATH 5th September 1990
Place of death New York City , New York