William Allen Rogers

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William Allen Rogers
Rogers c. 1917
Born1854
Springfield, Ohio
Died1931 (aged 76–77)
Washington, D.C.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Cartoonist
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William Allen Rogers (1854–1931) was an American political cartoonist born in Springfield, Ohio.[1]

Biography

He studied at the

Wittenberg College, but never graduated. Rogers taught himself to draw[2] and began submitting political cartoons to Midwestern newspapers in his teens.[1] At the age of fourteen, his first cartoons appeared in a Dayton, Ohio-based newspaper, to which Rogers' mother had earlier submitted a selection of his sketches.[2]

The start of Rogers' career as an illustrator came in 1873 when he was hired by the

Daily Graphic in New York.[2][3] He was nineteen years old at the time.[2] Rogers' job at the Daily Graphic was to help out with the news sketches and at times draw cartoons.[2]

In 1877, he was hired by Harper's Weekly to draw the magazine's political cartoons after the departure of Thomas Nast.[2][4] The cartoons were dramatic adjuncts that illustrated the magazine's editorials.[5] Walt Reed, author of The Illustrator in America: 1860-2000, writes that while Rogers cartoons "never quite approached Nast's in power, his ideas were strongly presented and his drawings somewhat more skillful."[4] Rogers remained at Harper's Weekly for twenty-five years,[2] and lived in St. George, Staten Island.[6]

After leaving Harper's Weekly, Rogers was hired by the

St. Nicholas Magazine.[2]

Rogers retired as a cartoonist in 1926 while working for the

Washington Post.[2] He died in Washington, D.C., in 1931.[1]

Gallery

  • World War I United States Navy recruitment poster using one of Rogers's cartoons for the New York Herald.
    World War I United States Navy recruitment poster using one of Rogers's cartoons for the New York Herald.
  • George Bartle, who was the seal caretaker from 1852–99, for the March 1878 Harper’s Magazine
    George Bartle, who was the
    Harper’s Magazine
  • "Return of the Great White Fleet". The cartoon appeared in the New York Herald on February 22, 1909
    "Return of the Great White Fleet". The cartoon appeared in the New York Herald on February 22, 1909
  • 1904 cartoon recreates the Big Stick Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt as an episode in Gulliver's Travels
    1904 cartoon recreates the Big Stick Diplomacy of Theodore Roosevelt as an episode in Gulliver's Travels

References

  1. ^ a b c A Century of American Illustration. Brooklyn Museum. 1972. p. 150.
  2. ^
    Smithsonian Institution Libraries
    . Retrieved January 1, 2010.
  3. ^ Writers' Program Ohio (1941). Springfield and Clark County, Ohio. Springfield Tribune Printing Company.
  4. ^
    ISBN 0-8230-2523-3
    .
  5. ISBN 0-8156-0519-6
    .
  6. ^ "Famous (Early) Staten Islanders". New York Public Library. Retrieved June 27, 2019.

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