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Henry the Funniest Living American
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Henry the Funniest Living American |
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Henry is a comic strip character created by Carl Thomas Anderson. Anderson created the comic strip Henry in 1932. His creator Carl Thomas Anderson was a cartoonist from Madison, Wisconsin. He had a significant interest in sketching at the age of 25 and moved to Philadelphia since the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art was the only school he found particularly advertising a pen-and-ink course, where he graduated in 1893. His first employment as an artist was with the Philadelphia Times in 1894, where he earned $12 a week drawing fashion pictures.
At the end of the 1890s, Anderson was employed by Arthur Brisbane for Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. His cartoon The Filipino and the Chick appeared on the World's Sunday page, catching the attention of William Randolph Hearst, who offered him more money at his New York Journal. Anderson invented Raffles and Bunny for Hearst, and Herr Spiegelberger, the Amateur Cracksman, for the McClure Syndicate in 1903.
The title character "Henry" is a young bald boy who is mute and occasionally depicted without a mouth. With the exception of a few early episodes, the comic strip character communicates primarily but not totally through pantomime, which changed when Henry went into comic books.
The Saturday Evening Post was the first publication to feature Henry, a series which began March 19, 1932, when Anderson was 67 years old. The series of cartoons continued in that magazine for two years in various formats such as single panel, multiple panels or two panels. In The Saturday Evening Post, Henry was later replaced by Marjorie Henderson Buell's Little Lulu.
Anderson was contracted to King Features Syndicate by William Randolph Hearst on December 17, 1934, and the half-page Sunday strip debuted on March 10, 1935.
In 1935, Henry was included in the Betty Boop short Betty Boop with Henry, the Funniest Living American. In this short, Henry wishes to purchase Pudgy.
The Henry comic strip, which first appeared in 1932, and still appeared throughout the years. The daily strip was retired in 1995, while the Sunday strip was retired in 2005. Henry was officially canceled on October 28, 2018.
Quotes
- Henry: "I wanna buy that dawg!"
Gallery
Trivia
- The aforementioned Betty Boop short remains Henry's sole animated appearance.
- Not to be confused with Little Jimmy or Junior.
- He appears in the 1970s animated film Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter.[1]