BUD FISHER - AUTOGRAPH - HFSID 45876
Price: $360.00
BUD FISHER
Bud Fisher, creator of Mutt and Jeff, signs a card in blue
ink.
Signature: "Bud Fisher", 3x1½.Bud Fisher
(1885-1954), was creator of Mutt and Jeff, the first successful
comic strip, the first comic strip artist to make his fortune off of comic
strips. Fisher was a theatre, sports and news cartoonist at the San
Francisco Chronicle when he came up with the idea for a comic strip. The
strip, A. Mutt, began on Nov. 15, 1907; a Sunday strip was later added
and the name changed to Mutt and Jeff. Fisher cagily copyrighted the
strip, which allowed him to peddle the strip and its characters to the highest
bidder. By 1921, Fisher received $4,600 a week for drawing Mutt and
Jeff for the Wheeler Syndicate, even though much of the work was done by
assistants. With assistants slaving away on the strip, Fisher was free to
squander his money on the good life before dying in seclusion in 1954. Lightly
worn at corners. Mounting remnants on verso (no show through). Otherwise, fine
condition.
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