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First Weatherbird appearance, February 11, 1901, drawn by Harry B. Martin. The Weatherbird is a cartoon character and a single-panel comic.It is printed on the front of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and has been in the paper continuously since 1901, making it the longest-running American newspaper cartoon and a mascot of the newspaper.
Oscar Charles Chopin (September 24, 1873 – December 28, 1932) was an American artist known for his cartoon illustrations that appeared in several newspapers. He drew the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Weatherbird cartoon from 1903 to 1910.
The show featured newly-animated 11-minute magpie cartoons, in which the characters were not as abrasive as their theatrical personas. The hour-long show featured two Heckle and Jeckle cartoons. The show was cut to a half-hour for the 1980-1981 season, and featured one Heckle and Jeckle cartoon. [7]
Martin draws the Weatherbird for the Post-Dispatch. He is the sixth cartoonist to draw the Weatherbird, which debuted in 1901 and appears every day on the paper's front page. He is the second-longest serving Weatherbird artist (after Amadee Wohlschlaeger), having taken over the strip in 1986. [3] "
Martin's first Weatherbird, February 11, 1901 Harry B. "Dickie" Martin (26 May 1873– 15 April 1959 [ 1 ] ) was an American cartoonist and golf writer, one of the founding members of the Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA).
This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons.This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch magazine in the 1840s - artists working earlier than that are more correctly termed 'caricaturists',
He drew the Weatherbird, usually accompanied by a pithy observation on current events, from 1932 to 1981. His Weatherbird marked D-Day, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and many other notable events. [1] He was succeeded as illustrator by Albert Schweitzer. [5] Wohlschlaeger drew his first sports cartoon for the paper in 1936. [1]
Weatherbird is a cartoon character and strip in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Weatherbird may also refer to: "Weather Bird", a composition by Joe Oliver; Lockheed WC-130 "Weatherbird", a weather reconnaissance plane; Howard McNeil (1920–2010), American meteorologist known as the "Old Weatherbird"