Clare Victor Dwiggins Explained

Birth Date:16 June 1874
Birth Place:Wilmington, Ohio
Death Place:North Hollywood, California, U.S.
Nationality:American
Area:Syndicated cartoonist
Cartoonist:y
Notable Works:School Days (1909–1932)
Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1918–1931)
Alias:Dwig

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).

Biography

Born in Wilmington, Ohio,[1] 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 Wilberfloss, Leap Year Lizzie, Them Was the Happy Days, Uncle Jim and Tad and Tim, Mrs. Bump's Boarding House, Ophelia and Her Slate[2] and Bill's Diary.

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

Comics

Dwig's first comic strip was Home Wanted for Tags, a daily/Sunday strip for the McClure Newspaper Syndicate, which ran from 1910–1919. His longest-running strip was Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn (1918–1931), which used more than a half dozen of Mark Twain's characters but employed very little content from his novels.

Dwig began School Days circa 1909 as a single panel,[3] and it eventually evolved into a Sunday strip with a storyline about school kids that continued until c. 1932 (including under the titles Ophelia's Slate, The School Days of Tom Sawyer & Huck Finn, and Golden Days).[4] [5]

Dwig drew Nipper (1931–37) for the Ledger Syndicate. During that same period, he did Footprints on the Sands of Time for the Ledger Syndicate.[6] In 1940, he returned to Huckleberry Finn (also for the Ledger Syndicate), which was reprinted in the pages of Doc Savage Comics and Supersnipe Comics (both published by Street & Smith Comics). He also drew Bobby Crusoe in 1945 for Supersnipe Comics.[4]

Comic strips and panels chronology

1897-1899

1900s

1910s

1920s

1930s

1940s

Books

Toasts (1907) published by John C. Winston Co., was a hardcover collection of bawdy and intemperate Edwardian poems and limericks, illustrated with line drawings. After 1945, Dwig focused on illustration, including five books published with August Derleth.

Notes and References

  1. Rath, Jay (May 1985). "Dwig, A Pen-and-Ink Poet". Nemo, the Classic Comics Library, No. 11.
  2. http://www.toonopedia.com/ophelia.htm "Ophelia's Slate"
  3. Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics, 1977, page 26
  4. http://lambiek.net/artists/d/dwiggins_cv.htm "Clare Victor Dwiggins: Dwig"
  5. http://www.toonopedia.com/schoolda.htm "School Days"
  6. http://www.bailsprojects.com/bio.aspx?Name=DWIGGINS%2c+CLARE Dwiggins entry

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