Hoban, Walter

Walter Hoban (1890-1939)was one of the pioneers of screwball comics, particularly with his Jerry on the Job, which ran from 1913 to 1932. Hoban was one of the early innovators of the flop gag, in which a character flops over, usually in the last panel, as a result of the gag. Hoban was also one of the first cartoonists to regularly incorporate background sight gags, later made famous by Bill Holman.

Earlier in Hoban's career, he was a sports cartoonist for the New York Journal, later continuing in that same role for the New York Daily Mirror