Cliff Sterrett

Cliff Sterrett ( born December 12, 1883 in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, † December 28, 1964 ) was an American illustrator, caricaturist, cartoonist and author. He became known primarily through the comic strip Polly and Her Pals.

Life and work

At the age of 18 years moved Sterrett to New York, where he attended the Chase School of Art. From 1904 to 1908 he worked as an illustrator and cartoonist for the New York Herald, subsequently at the New York Times and later in other newspapers. First experiences with the drawing of comics collected Sterrett at the newspaper New York Evening Telegram, for which he daily strip Ventriloquial Vag recorded in 1911, which a short time later another with the titles When a Man 's Married, Before And After and For This We have Daughters followed. In 1912 he was recruited by William Randolph Hearst and even published on December 4, 1912 first strip of Polly and Her Pals in the New York Journal, initially under the title Positive Polly; the first Sunday strip was followed a year later on 28 December 1913. developed for the Sunday pages Sterrett more strips like Damon and Pythias (later renamed Dot and Dash ), Sweethearts and Wives (later renamed Belles and Wedding Bells ) and And So They were Never Married. The days of Polly and Her Pals Strip gave Sterrett 1935, the Sunday page he held until the setting of the Strip in 1958.

Importance

Sterrett built in the 1920s in his comics, cubist, surrealist and expressionist elements and inspired various artist colleagues, such as Martin Branner. Andreas C. Knigge honors Sterrett as "one of the best and most innovative artist of his era " and puts it on a par with Lyonel Feininger and Winsor McCay.