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Walter Berndt
Walter Berndt (November 22, 1899, – August 15, 1979) was an American cartoonist known for his comic strip Smitty, which he drew for 50 years.
Bernt's job as an office boy at the New York Journal , which he took on after dropping out of high school in Brooklyn, put him in contact with leading cartoonists, as he recalled,
When I was 16, I worked as office boy for Tad, Herriman, Hershfield, Tom McNamara, also Hoban, McCay, Gross, T. E. Powers, C. D. Batchelor, Sterrett and Segar. Not much money but a million dollars worth of experience! Stayed with the New York Journal for five years, sweeping floors, running errands, drawing strips, sport cartoons and what have you. Then one year with World Telegram. From there to the Daily News in 1922 where Smitty and Herby work for me!
Ed Black wrote about the method E. C. Segar and Berndt used to generate cartoon ideas:
Then the Fun Began was appearing as early as March 3, 1919. When Berndt left that strip on October 13, 1921, it was taken over by Fred Faber, who continued it until 1928.
Berndt's first strip, That's Different, drawn for the Bell Syndicate, lasted less than a year. In 1922, he created Smitty, which he continued until 1973, working with his assistant Charles Mueller. Yet it did not begin without a struggle, as cartoonist Mike Lynch described in a 2005 lecture:
He also produced the comic strip Herby, a topper strip of Smitty, from 1938 through 1960.
In 1937, Berndt moved to Port Jefferson, Long Island, where he lived until his death at age 79. He died on Monday, August 15, 1979, at Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson,
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Walter Berndt
Walter Berndt (November 22, 1899, – August 15, 1979) was an American cartoonist known for his comic strip Smitty, which he drew for 50 years.
Bernt's job as an office boy at the New York Journal , which he took on after dropping out of high school in Brooklyn, put him in contact with leading cartoonists, as he recalled,
When I was 16, I worked as office boy for Tad, Herriman, Hershfield, Tom McNamara, also Hoban, McCay, Gross, T. E. Powers, C. D. Batchelor, Sterrett and Segar. Not much money but a million dollars worth of experience! Stayed with the New York Journal for five years, sweeping floors, running errands, drawing strips, sport cartoons and what have you. Then one year with World Telegram. From there to the Daily News in 1922 where Smitty and Herby work for me!
Ed Black wrote about the method E. C. Segar and Berndt used to generate cartoon ideas:
Then the Fun Began was appearing as early as March 3, 1919. When Berndt left that strip on October 13, 1921, it was taken over by Fred Faber, who continued it until 1928.
Berndt's first strip, That's Different, drawn for the Bell Syndicate, lasted less than a year. In 1922, he created Smitty, which he continued until 1973, working with his assistant Charles Mueller. Yet it did not begin without a struggle, as cartoonist Mike Lynch described in a 2005 lecture:
He also produced the comic strip Herby, a topper strip of Smitty, from 1938 through 1960.
In 1937, Berndt moved to Port Jefferson, Long Island, where he lived until his death at age 79. He died on Monday, August 15, 1979, at Mather Memorial Hospital in Port Jefferson,
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