F. M. Howarth
Franklin Morris Howarth (1864–1908) was an American cartoonist and pioneering comic strip artist. Howarth was born in Philadelphia on September 27, 1864. He was the oldest of four children of William and Sarah (Iseminger) Howarth.
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F. M. Howarth
Engraving by Keppler Schwarzmann, after drawing by F.M. Howarth. · This image is available from the United States Library of Congress 's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b49128. This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached · Public domain
- Born
- 1864 · Philadelphia.
- Died
- 1908
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- comics artist
- Languages
- English
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Franklin Morris Howarth (1864–1908) was an American cartoonist and pioneering comic strip artist. Howarth was born in Philadelphia on September 27, 1864. He was the oldest of four children of William and Sarah (Iseminger) Howarth.
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F. M. Howarth (1864–1908) was an American comics artist. The comics artist was born in Philadelphia. Languages used include English.
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His father was a pattern maker and an English immigrant, his mother a native Philadelphian. Howarth attended Central High School. He joined the staff of Puck in 1891, and moved to the New York World in 1901. Howarth, whose style for figures frequently featured big heads on little bodies, was among the first generation of cartoonists to create serial cartoons, which came to be called comic strips. According to author Jared Gardner, "F. M Howarth's work is representative of the development of sequential graphic narrative during this period.. Howarth fractured the single panel that had previously dominated in the United States". Among Howarth's strips are the critically acclaimed courtship strip The Love of Lulu and Leander created in 1902 for the New York American, and eternal con-man target Mr. Howarth died September 22, 1908, in Germantown, Philadelphia, at age 43, of pneumonia.
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• Illustration — Howarth's Mr. E. Z. Mark, typical of his large-headed figures
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- 1.Alex Jay. Ink-Slinger Profiles by Alex Jay: F.M. Howarth. Stripper's Guide. November 4, 2014.
- 2.Payne, Harold. Our Caricaturists and Cartoonists. Munsey's Magazine. Frank A. Munsey and Company. X. 5. 550. February 1894.
- 3.Curtis, Thomas E. The Humorous Artists of America. The Strand Magazine. XXIII. 137. 551. May 1902.
- 4.Gardner, Jared. Projections: Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling. Stanford University Press. 7. 2012. 978-0804771474.
- 5.Comic Shop Lambiek. F.M. Howarth. Comiclopedia. July 27, 2007.
- 6.Comic Shop Lambiek. W. L. Wells. Comiclopedia. July 27, 2007.
- 7.Don Markstein. MR. E.Z. MARK. Don Markstein's Toonpedia.
- 8.Don Markstein. THE LOVE OF LULU AND LEANDER. Don Markstein's Toonpedia.
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