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Samstag, 21. September 2024

ANDIRON TALES BY JOHN KENDRICK BANGS, ILLUSTRATIONS BY CLARE VICTOR DWIGGINS

 Clare Victor Dwiggins (June 16, 1874 – October 26, 1958) was an American cartoonist who signed his work Dwig. Dwiggins created a number of comic strips and single-panel cartoons for various American newspapers and newspaper syndicates from 1897 until 1945, including his best-known strip, the long-running School Days (which appeared under a number of different titles).



Born in Wilmington, Ohio, Dwiggins was on a path toward a career in architecture but detoured into cartooning when his artwork was published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York World in 1897. He created a wide variety of gag panels, including J. Filliken WilberflossLeap Year LizzieThem Was the Happy DaysUncle Jim and Tad and TimMrs. Bump's Boarding HouseOphelia and Her Slate and Bill's Diary.

Dwiggins died in a North Hollywood rest home on October 26, 1958, after a long illness.

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