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Moon Mullins
Moon Mullins is an American comic strip which had a run as both a daily and Sunday feature from June 19, 1923, to June 2, 1991. Syndicated by the Chicago Tribune/New York News Syndicate, the strip depicts the lives of diverse lowbrow characters who reside at the Schmaltz (later Plushbottom) boarding house. The central character, Moon (short for Moonshine), is a would-be prizefighter—perpetually strapped for cash but with a roguish appetite for vice and high living. Moon took a room in the boarding house at 1323 Wump Street in 1924 and never left, staying on for 67 years. The strip was created by cartoonist Frank Willard.
Frank Henry Willard was born on September 21, 1893, in Anna, Illinois,[citation needed] the son of a physician.[citation needed] He determined to become a cartoonist early in life. After attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago in 1913,[citation needed] he was a staff artist with the Chicago Herald (1914–18), where he drew the Sunday kids' page Tom, Dick and Harry and another strip, Mrs. Pippin's Husband.[citation needed] He next wrote and drew The Outta Luck Club for King Features Syndicate (1919–23).[citation needed]
In The Comics (1947), Coulton Waugh described Willard's art style as "gritty-looking". In 2003, the Scoop newsletter documented the 1923 events that led to the creation of the strip:
Moon was a tough-talking, if generally good natured, kind of guy who took (and dealt) plenty of punches during his run. And actually, those are very appropriate characteristics. See, back before Moon was created, Frank Willard was working on a strip called The Outta Luck Club for King Features Syndicate. That's when he got the notion that some of his ideas were being slipped to fellow cartoonist George McManus (creator of Bringing Up Father). So, in typical Moon Mullins fashion, Willard approached McManus and gave him a wallop that knocked the latter out cold and got the former fired. That little episode didn't stop Captain Joe Patterson's interest from being piqued, however, and Willard soon set to work on a new strip for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. That strip was Moon Mullins ...
Ah, Moon Mullins! He made a horrible role model but a hilarious star nonetheless—as did his assorted pals ... Adventures included stints in jail, trysts with stolen cars, failed employment opportunities, misunderstandings and plenty of black eyes for all. Yet, there was a certain lightness to all of Moon's debaucheries that made his low-down ways pretty charming ...
Willard was in tune with the working class characters he created, as noted by David Westbrook in From Hogan's Alley to Coconino County: Four Narratives of the Early Comic Strip:
After Johnson took over, other characters were added to the cast, including:
The strip was reviewed by Dr. Hermes in Dr. Hermes Retro-Scans:
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Moon Mullins
Moon Mullins is an American comic strip which had a run as both a daily and Sunday feature from June 19, 1923, to June 2, 1991. Syndicated by the Chicago Tribune/New York News Syndicate, the strip depicts the lives of diverse lowbrow characters who reside at the Schmaltz (later Plushbottom) boarding house. The central character, Moon (short for Moonshine), is a would-be prizefighter—perpetually strapped for cash but with a roguish appetite for vice and high living. Moon took a room in the boarding house at 1323 Wump Street in 1924 and never left, staying on for 67 years. The strip was created by cartoonist Frank Willard.
Frank Henry Willard was born on September 21, 1893, in Anna, Illinois,[citation needed] the son of a physician.[citation needed] He determined to become a cartoonist early in life. After attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago in 1913,[citation needed] he was a staff artist with the Chicago Herald (1914–18), where he drew the Sunday kids' page Tom, Dick and Harry and another strip, Mrs. Pippin's Husband.[citation needed] He next wrote and drew The Outta Luck Club for King Features Syndicate (1919–23).[citation needed]
In The Comics (1947), Coulton Waugh described Willard's art style as "gritty-looking". In 2003, the Scoop newsletter documented the 1923 events that led to the creation of the strip:
Moon was a tough-talking, if generally good natured, kind of guy who took (and dealt) plenty of punches during his run. And actually, those are very appropriate characteristics. See, back before Moon was created, Frank Willard was working on a strip called The Outta Luck Club for King Features Syndicate. That's when he got the notion that some of his ideas were being slipped to fellow cartoonist George McManus (creator of Bringing Up Father). So, in typical Moon Mullins fashion, Willard approached McManus and gave him a wallop that knocked the latter out cold and got the former fired. That little episode didn't stop Captain Joe Patterson's interest from being piqued, however, and Willard soon set to work on a new strip for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate. That strip was Moon Mullins ...
Ah, Moon Mullins! He made a horrible role model but a hilarious star nonetheless—as did his assorted pals ... Adventures included stints in jail, trysts with stolen cars, failed employment opportunities, misunderstandings and plenty of black eyes for all. Yet, there was a certain lightness to all of Moon's debaucheries that made his low-down ways pretty charming ...
Willard was in tune with the working class characters he created, as noted by David Westbrook in From Hogan's Alley to Coconino County: Four Narratives of the Early Comic Strip:
After Johnson took over, other characters were added to the cast, including:
The strip was reviewed by Dr. Hermes in Dr. Hermes Retro-Scans:
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