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Opper, Frederick
In the period 1909–1914 the incredibly prolific Fred Opper was producing a number of mis-cellaneous quasi-daily strips, the well-known Happy Hooligan Sunday page, plus the more obscure Sunday strip Howson Lott. More often a half-pager than a full-size page, Howson Lott ('house on lot') began as a satire of the new trend of the middle-class to move out to the country. Opper ended up using this strip as sort of a catch-all for various characters: Maud the mule showed up on occasion, the King of the Cannibal Islands was a semi-regular, even Alphonse and Gaston were liable to pop in.
Opper was a very skilled draftsman with a great sense of humor, a great sense of timing, and very innovative. Born in 1857, 6 years older than Richard F. Outcault, 12 years older than Winsor McCay, 18 years older than James Swinnerton, 20 years older than Rudolph Dirks, Opper was the “grandfather” of the Platinum Age, or, as Outcault put it, “the Dean of American cartoonists”. When Opper switched to Hearst in 1899 (i.e. from satirical single-image illustrations to sequential comic strips) he was already 42 years old, quite late for a reset. Grown up in a time when speech balloons, speed lines and many other elements of comics language were unknown, Opper was always quick to adopt those innovations. In Happy Hooligan, for example, Opper was regularly using speech balloons already in early 1901, long before Rudolph Dirks, Winsor McCay and others decided to switch from sub-panel text to speech balloons.
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Howson Lott 1911-02-19
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| Artist: | Frederick Opper (All) |
| Media Type: | Pen and Ink |
| Art Type: | Comic Strip |
| For Sale Status: | NFS |
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| Added to Site: | 1/1/2025 |
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Howson Lott 1911-02-19
Artist: Frederick Opper (All)
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Howson Lott 1909-05-09
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| Artist: | Frederick Opper (All) |
| Media Type: | Pen and Ink |
| Art Type: | Comic Strip |
| For Sale Status: | NFS |
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| Added to Site: | 5/11/2010 |
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Howson Lott 1909-05-09
Artist: Frederick Opper (All)
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