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Ohio Cartoonists
Ohio's Own
Rev. 4/20/09
Did you know that Ohio, particularly northeast Ohio, is a hotbed of comics and graphic fiction activity?
More than 10% of the 100 most important newspaper-strip artists of the first century of newspaper comics selected in the 1996 illustrated encyclopedia100 Years of American Newspaper Comics have ties to Ohio!
Ohio's own, then and now, includes:
Alphonse and Gaston (1902 - 1920s) - creator Frederick Opper (Madison, OH)
American Splendor - Harvey Pekar (Cleveland, OH)
And Her Name Was Maud! (1904 - 1932) - creator Frederick Opper (Madison, OH)
Animal Crackers - original creator Roger Bollen (Cleveland, OH)
Apartment 3-G -(1961 to present) creator Dr. Nicholas P. Dallis (Toledo, OH) while Medical Director of Mental Health Clinic, his third of three strips!
Ask Shagg - Peter Guren (Cleveland, OH)
Blondie - creator Murat "Chic" Young (lived in Cleveland from 1922-1924)
The Born Loser - creator Art Sansom, currently created by Chip Samsom (Cleveland, OH)
Brick Bradford (1933 - 1987) - illustrator Clarence Gray (Cleveland, OH)
Buster Brown (1902 - 1926) - creator R. F. Outcault
Cap Stubbs and Tippie (1918-1966) - Francis Edwina Dumm (Upper Sandusky, OH)
Calvin and Hobbes (1985 - 1995) - creator Bill Watterson (Chagrin Falls, OH)
Cathy - Cathy Guisewite (born in Ohio)
Crankshaft - co-collaborator Tom Batiuk (Elyria, OH)
Dondi (1955-1986) - writer Gus Edson (Cincinnati, OH)
Flo & Friends - Jenny Campbell and team including the late John Gibel and late Rose Ellison King (Cleveland, OH)
Funky Winkerbean - creator Tom Batiuk (Elyria, OH)
The Gumps (1917-1959) - artist/writer Gus Edson (Cincinnati, OH)
Happy Hooligan (1900 - 1932) - creator Frederick Burr Opper
(Madison, OH)
Judge Parker (1952 to present) - creator Dr. Nicholas P. Dallis (Toledo, OH) while Medical Director of Mental Health Clinic, his second of three strips!
Mother Goose & Grimm - creator Mike Peters (Dayton, OH), Peters
is also a Dayton Daily News political cartoonist
The Pajama Diaries - creator Terri Libenson (Cleveland, OH)
Patsy (1935 - 1940s) - illustrator Mel Graff (Cleveland, OH)
Pajama Diaries - creator Terri Libenson (Cleveland, OH)
Rex Morgan, M.D. (1948 - present) - creator Dr. Nicholas P. Dallis (Toledo, OH) while Medical Director of Mental Health Clinic, his first of three strips!
Secret Agent X-9 - illustrator 1940 - 1960 Mel Graff (Cleveland, OH)
Superman - creators Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel (Cleveland, OH)
The Meaning of Lila - creators John Forgetta and L.A. Rose (Cleveland, OH)
Vic Flint (1946 - 1967) - illustrator 1961 - 1965 Art Sansom (Cleveland, OH)
Wash Tubbs (1924 - 1988) - creator of Sunday Page 1960 - 1969 Mel Graff (Cleveland, OH)
The Yellow Kid (1895 - 1898) - creator R. F. Outcault (Lancaster, OH)
Ziggy - creator Tom Wilson, Sr.
(Lakewood, OH) and Tom Wilson, Jr. (born in Cleveland, resides in Cincinnati)
Zits - co-collaborator Jim Borgman (Cincinnati, OH), Borgman is also a political cartoonist for the Cincinnati Enquirer
Illustrators include:
Daniel Collins (Ashley, OH)
Robert Crumb (Cleveland, OH)
Peter Kuper (born in Ohio)
Jeff Smith (Columbus, OH)
Would you like to add a piece of work or creator that has ties to Ohio? You can submit your info to us here.
Libraries and Special Collections:
Ohio boasts comics-related sites of interest including:
Historic Marker recognizing the birthplace of Superman (boyhood home of Shuster and Siegel) - Glenville, OH
Browne Popular Culture Library at Bowling Green State University
Cartoon Research Library at The Ohio State University
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