Harry J. Tuthill
Harry J. Tuthill | |
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Chicago, Illinois, U.S. | |
Died | January 25, 1957 | (aged 71)
Nationality | American |
Notable works | The Bungle Family |
Harry J. Tuthill (May 10, 1885[1] – January 25, 1957)[2] was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip The Bungle Family.
Biography
Born in
During his late teens, he settled in
By the age of 30, he still had not sold any cartoons. Finding encouragement on his artwork from Bob Grable of
Comic strips
In 1918, Tuthill launched Home Sweet Home, a strip about apartment life, in the
He also drew Alice and Her Bothersome Little Brother and Napoleon Blunder during the 1920s. Little Brother ran as a topper strip to The Bungle Family. Tuthill's strips from 1919 to 1926 were created in his home studio at 4537 Tower Grove Place in St. Louis, eventually moving to Ferguson, Missouri outside St. Louis.[4] His sister, Irene Morrisson, also lived in the St. Louis area.
Tuthill continued to draw The Bungle Family for McNaught until he had a dispute with the syndicate in 1939, which no longer carried the strip in 1942. After a hiatus, the strip returned — syndicated by Tuthill himself — on May 16, 1943, with newspapers running a promotional banner, "The Bungles Are Back!" It ran for two more years until 1945 when Tuthill retired.
In 1946, Tuthill applied for a U.S. patent for a "shading process." The detailed application, which Tuthill illustrated with a drawing of George Bungle shaded in various ways, stated that the "principal objects of the present invention are to devise a simple and economical process of quickly and easily applying such lines or shading to any fairly smooth and solid surface." This was the last of four lifetime patents that Tuthill was granted, approvals coming in 1935, 1937, 1938, and 1948. All these patents related to drawing.[5]
He died of heart disease in 1957.[1][3]
His son, Harold Tuthill, who worked for 47 years as a St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports writer, died of a heart ailment in 1988 at the age of 82.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c d "Harry J. Tuthill," Lambiek's Comiclopedia. Accessed Nov. 25, 2017.
- ^ Associated Press, "Cartoonist Dies". The San Bernardino Daily Sun, San Bernardino, California, Saturday 26 January 1957, Volume LXIII, Number 127, page 1.
- ^ Nemo, the Classic Comics Library5 (February 1984)
- ^ Heintjes, Tom (August 12, 2013). "When the Bungles Mixed It Up with Their Neighbors on the Battlegrounds of Sunken Heights" (13). Hogan's Alley. Archived from the original on February 6, 2015. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
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