BILL HOLMAN - ORIGINAL Comic Drawing SMOKEY STOVER, Nuts and Jolts

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BILL HOLMAN - ORIGINAL Comic Drawing SMOKEY STOVER, Nuts and Jolts:
$99.00

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BILL HOLMAN - ORIGINAL Comic Drawing! SMOKEY STOVER, Nuts and Jolts

~ Guaranteed 100% Authentic & Original ~

Up for sale is an original comic drawing by thefamous comic artist BILL HOLMAN.Bill Holman (March 22, 1903 – February 27, 1987) was an American cartoonist who drew Nuts and Jolts, and the classic comic strip Smokey Stover from 1935 until he retired in 1973. Distributed through the Chicago Tribune, Smokey Stover had the longest run of any strip in the screwball genre.

This original drawing is most likely signed by Bill Holman himself on the reverse, and looks like it may be from Smokey Stover!It came from a large archive of sketches and letters belonging to illustrator and comic art collector Murray Harris and his wife that they collected over the years, and is guaranteed to be 100% authentic! Many of the pieces in this group were sent directly to them, and according to the letters, many famous cartoonists came to their house to see their collection and would leave original artwork! We will be listing other pieces from this collection in the upcoming days and weeks, so be sure to check back!

Approximate Dimensions:card measures 5⅝x 5”

Condition: There is some soiling, a small tear in the bottom edge, and areas of paper on the reverse have peeled away. Please view the photos for additional details and the most accurate description of its condition.

Bill Holman (March 22, 1903 – February 27, 1987) was an American cartoonist who drew the classic comic strip Smokey Stover from 1935 until he retired in 1973. Distributed through the Chicago Tribune, it had the longest run of any strip in the screwball genre. Holman signed some strips with the pseudonym Scat H. He once described himself as \"always inclined to humor and acting silly.\"

Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, Holman lived as a child in Nappanee, Indiana, a town where six successful cartoonists lived when they were children. Holman\'s father died when he was young. He began drawing when he was 12 years old.

While working part-time at Nappanee\'s local five and dime store, he developed an interest in art as a career and sent away for the Landon School of Illustration and Cartooning correspondence course. Dropping out of high school, he was 15 when he moved with his mother to Chicago. There he took night courses at the Academy of Fine Arts and learned more about cartooning from Carl Ed.

In 1920, he held a job as a copy boy at the Chicago Tribune for six dollars a week. The position gave him the opportunity to hang out with the top Tribune cartoonists, including Sidney Smith, Harold Gray and E. C. Segar.

In Cleveland, he began working for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, which syndicated his short-lived animal strip, Billville Birds (1922). After three years with NEA and Scripps-Howard, he headed for New York, where he was a Herald Tribune staff artist and drew the child strip G. Whizz Jr. for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate. He scored a success when he headed in a new direction, submitting his cartoons to a variety of different magazines, including Liberty, Redbook, Collier\'s and Life.

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