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Bud Fisher

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Artist

The Resume

    (April 3, 1885-September 7, 1954)
    Born in Chicago, Illinois
    Birth name was Harry Conway Fisher
    Journalist and sketch artist for the San Francisco Chronicle
    Created the comic strip 'Mutt and Jeff' (1907)
    Founded the Bud Fisher Film Corporation, which made over 300 Mutt and Jeff animated short films (1913-26)

Why he might be annoying:

    He claimed credit as animator and director of the Mutt and Jeff films even though the work was done by other people.
    As early as 1921, he hired assistants to do the artwork for the Mutt and Jeff strip.
    He married a countess who filed for legal separation two years later on the grounds of cruelty, specifically complaining that he let her be 'neglected by his servants while they looked after a number of live frogs he maintained in their former apartment on Riverside Drive.'
    He became increasingly reclusive later in life.

Why he might not be annoying:

    'Mutt and Jeff' was the first successful daily comic strip.
    He was the first cartoonist to copyright his characters and establish that the strip belonged to him, not the newspaper.
    He owned a stable of thoroughbred horses, one of whom won the Preakness Stakes (1924).
    The Washington Post noted, 'The sharp pacing and sardonic wit in Fisher's work set the standard for every newspaper strip that would follow.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 8 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 5 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 6 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 7 Votes: 28.57% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 16 Votes: 62.50% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 13 Votes: 38.46% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 9 Votes: 66.67% Annoying