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Entry updated 23 December 2023. Tagged: Artist, Comics.
(1867-1934) Canadian-born Comic-strip artist and creator of animated cartoons, in US from an early age; of seminal importance in both his main professions.
His earliest years are obscure, but by 1889 he was employed in Chicago as an engraver in a printing firm, when he may have been exposed to the phantasmagoric École des Beaux-Arts Chicago World's Fair of 1893, then under construction.
Windsor mccay biography
During the 1890s he worked as a freelance poster painter and as an in-house artist at Cincinnati's Vine Street Dime Museum before, in 1898, starting his newspaper career by doing editorial cartoons for the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
By 1900 McCay had switched papers and was drawing his first comic strip, A Tale of the Jungle Imps, signed Felix Fiddle and based upon poems by George Randolph Chester. His new interest in strips and success as a cartoonist for Life, then edited by J A Mitchell, led to his moving in 1902 to New Yo