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Bud (Harry Conway) Fisher

Bud (Harry Conway) Fisher (1885 - 1954) was active/lived in New York, Illinois.  Bud Fisher is known for Cartoonist, illustrator.

Bud Fisher was one of the first to establish that a comic artist could be rich and respectable. Fisher did that by creating Mutt and Jeff in 1907, and parlaying it into a multi million-dollar property.

Harry Conway Fisher was born in Chicago. He quit the University of Chicago after three months and went to California to make history. When he arrived at the San Francisco Chronicle, like most early cartoonists, he was assigned to the sports department. For a few years he did layouts and sports cartoons. Then, on November 15, 1907, Fisher made history he began what would become the first successful daily comic strip. The success of Mutt and Jeff, known initially as A. Mutt, established the strip form for daily newspaper comics and brought fame and fortune to Fisher.

His contributions to the medium did not end with defining its format. Fisher had the foresight to copyright the strip in his own name. Further, he had the audacity to go to court to protect his rights. His first   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4112 characters.]  Artist bio

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