Henry Mayer (cartoonist)
Henry Mayer (18 July 1868 – 27 September 1954), often seen as Hy Mayer in signatures, using the traditional abbreviation for Henry,[1] was a German-American editorial cartoonist, comic artist,[2] children's book illustrator and animator.
Biography
Suffragists were successful in the West; their torch awakens the women struggling in the East and South in this cartoon by Henry Mayer in Puck
February 20, 1915Mayer was born in
short subject film series combined animation with live action film taken in exotic locations.[7] He is credited with directing over 100 short films from 1913 to 1926.[8]
Mayer also worked with
Teddy Roosevelt, before Messmer left to work with producer Pat Sullivan on the long-running Felix the Cat
animation series.
He died in
South Norwalk
, Connecticut, United States.
References
- ^ Given names gov.pe.ca [dead link]
- ^ https://www.lambiek.net/artists/m/mayer_hy.htm
- ^ "Mayer, Henry". The Jewish Encyclopedia.
- OCLC 5689410. p. 875.
- ^ West, Richard Samuel (2009) The Light That Failed The Ohio State University Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum Collection
- ^ Affidavit of Carl Laemmle, Humiston v. Universal Film Co., 189 App. Div. 467, 178 N.Y. Supp. 752 (1919) page 37
- ^ "Henry 'Hy' Mayer". IMDB.
- ISBN 9781557836717. p. 227.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Henry Mayer.
- Lambiek Comiclopedia biography.
- Henry Mayer at IMDb
- Henry "Hy" Mayer at Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Online Catalog
- Works by or about Henry Mayer at Internet Archive
- Works by Henry Mayer at Project Gutenberg
- Henry Mayer director at Complete Index to World Film
- In Laughland digitized by Loyola University New Orleans
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