Moon Mullins
Moon Mullins is an American comic strip that appeared from 1923 to 1991. It was drawn by Frank Willard and Ferd Johnson .
action
Moon (short for Moonshine) Mullins is an argumentative character who likes to hang around pubs, billiard parlors, and sports arenas. Other characters are his landlady Emmy Schmaltz, the cook Mamie and her husband Willie, Moon's younger brother Kayo and the Englishman Lord Plushbottom. Boxing matches were initially the focus of the action, but the action was later transferred to the circus environment.
Publication and draftsman
Joseph Medill Patterson wanted a comic strip similar to Barney Google for the newspaper syndicate he led and tried to poach its illustrator Billy DeBeck . Because that failed, he hired the draftsman Frank Willard in 1923. He had worked briefly with DeBeck on Barney Google in 1920 . The first daily comic strip of Moon Mullins appeared on 19 June 1923 the corresponding page Sunday debuted on September 9 of that year. After Willard's death in 1958, his longtime assistant Ferd Johnson took over the strip and continued it until its termination in 1991; supported in recent years by his son Tom.
At the height of its circulation, Moon Mullins was subscribed to by more than 250 newspapers. In addition, two books were published, a board game by the Milton Bradley Company and a radio adaptation based on Moon Mullins . In the animated series Archie's TV Funnies , which started in 1971, Moon Mullins was represented as a supporting character.
Individual evidence
- ^ Franco Fossati: The large illustrated Ehapa comic lexicon . Ehapa Verlag, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-7704-0865-9 , p. 182.
- ↑ a b Andreas C. Knigge: Comics . Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1996, ISBN 3-499-16519-8 , pp. 50–51.
- ↑ a b c d e f Frank Willard on syr.edu (English), accessed on October 4, 2015
- ^ Andreas C. Knigge : Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 452.
- ↑ Ferd Johnson on syr.edu , accessed on October 4, 2015