Harry Hargreaves (cartoonist)

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Harry Hargreaves
Born9 February 1922 (1922-02-09)
Manchester, England
Died12 November 2004 (2004-11-13) (aged 82)
NationalityBritish
Area(s)Cartoonist
Notable works
The Bird
Hayseeds
Spouse(s)
Penny Vickery
​
(m. 1948)​
Example of Harry Hargreaves' work.

Harry Hargreaves (9 February 1922, in

Yeovil, Somerset) was an English cartoonist, best remembered for The Bird, which he produced for Punch, and for Hayseeds in the London Evening News.[1][2]

Biography

Born the son of a civil servant, Hargreaves was educated at

Persia.[3][4]

Following the War Hargreaves worked at

Gaumont British
as a trainee animator in the period 1946–49. Here he met Penny Vickery, whom he married in 1948, the couple raising two daughters.

The 1950s saw the closing of Gaumont British and his return to freelance strip work in children's comics with his work on Harold Hare and Ollie the Alley Cat in

Knockout Fun Book and Terry the Troubadour in TV Comic
.

In 1953 he moved to Amsterdam to work at the studio of Dutch cartoonist Marten Toonder, being involved with the production of Panda, which at that time was syndicated to a hundred and fifty European papers, including the London Evening News. Returning to England in 1954, Hargreaves carried on drawing the strip until 1961.

In 1957 Hargreaves began contributing to

Puff the Magic Dragon".[5]

The year 1968 saw the debut of a daily strip, The Hayseeds, for the London Evening News. It featured talking animals and was based on Walt Kelly's strip Pogo, but not as political. This strip was dropped in 1974 when the London Evening News adopted a tabloid format, but its popularity rescued it and it continued until 1980.

In 1969 Hargreaves designed the Deep Sea Band cereal premiums for Australian plastics company Rosenhain & Lipmann. These were included in boxes of Kellogg's cereal in Australia, the UK, and Japan. Other Hargreaves premiums for R&L and Kellogg's included Camel Train, Tooly Birds, and Fringes, all of which were released on the US market.

References

  1. ^ Harry Hargreaves entry, British Cartoon Archive. Retrieved March 11, 2021.
  2. ^ Bryant, Mark. "Harry Hargreaves: Animal cartoonist and creator of 'The Bird'," The Independent (Monday 22 November 2004).
  3. ^ Hargreaves entry, Lambiek's Comiclopedia. Retrieved March 10, 2021.
  4. ^ Gravett, Paul. "Harry Hargreaves: Popular comic strip creator adept at identifying with animals," The Guardian (7 Dec 2004).
  5. ^ Hargreaves, Harry. "Discs-a-GoGo Animation Dept". IMDB.com. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
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