Wallace Carlson (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Wallace A. Carlson (March 28, 1894, St. Louis, Missouri - May 9, 1967, Chicago, Illinois) -- who usually signed his work as "Wallace Carlson" and was known to friends as "Wally" -- was a pioneering American animator and comic strip artist based out of Chicago.Carlson moved with his family from St. Louis in 1905 where he took a job at the Chicago Inter Ocean newspaper as a copy boy; soon he was contributing cartoons to the paper. Some time after the newspaper folded, Carlson created his first animated cartoon, Joe Boko Breaking Into the Big League (1914) completely on his own, the same year as Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur. The success of this short gained the attention of The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, who engaged Carlson to create a series, Canimated Nooz Pictorials, that was combined into their newsreels. At first the character Joe Boko continued from the older subject, but shortly Carlson introduced Dreamy Dud, a winsome lad whose daydreams gets him into various troublesome situations; Carlson's Dreamy Dud pictures remain his best known work in posterity.