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Bud (Harry Conway) Fisher

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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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15 Book References for Bud (Harry Conway) Fisher
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1996 Horn, Maurice (editor) 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics An Illustrated Encyclopedia 414 Yes
1990 Goulart, Ron (Editor) The Encyclopedia of American Comics From 1897 to the Present 408 Yes
1988 Blackbeard, Bill and Martin Williams The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics 334 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1987 Wood, Art Great Cartoonists And Their Art 192 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1973 Sheridan, Martin Classic Comics & Their Creators Life Stories of American Cartoonists 304 No
1959 Becker, Stephen Comic Art in America 387 No
1947 Waugh, Coulton The Comics 360 Yes
1943 Pearson, Ralph M Experiencing American Pictures 234 Yes
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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