Wallace A. Carlson

Wallace A. Carlson ( born March 28, 1894 in St. Louis, Missouri; † May 9, 1967 in Chicago) was an American comic book artist and producer, director and screenwriter of cartoons. Carlson is one of the pioneers of the characters tricks.

Life

Wallace A. Carlson began his career in 1905 as a runner at the Chicago Daily Inter -Ocean. In 1915 he turned to the animated and worked until 1921 for various film companies in more than 100 films. For Essanay Carlson created the series to Dreamy Dud, a boy with an exuberant imagination and a virtually predisposed dog, and Joe Boko, for John Randolph Bray JR Bray Studios, the film company that dominated the market for animation before the First World War, the series with Goodrich Dirt, Otto Luck, Dud Perkins and Ginger Meggs. 1915 drew Carlson Introducing Chaplin, a film in which Charles Chaplin himself plays itself.

Especially the often surreal effects -use Dreamy Dud films show Carlson's content and graphic proximity to Winsor McCay's comics and films to his equally dreamy hero Little Nemo. At Carlson's best-known works alongside the Dreamy Dud - series include the animated series The Gumps about a middle-class family to Sidney Smith's eponymous extremely successful comic strip that was published from 1917 to 1959, and from 1923 to 1944 published comic strip The Nebbs, also via a middle-class family, the Carlson created together with author Sol Hess and was produced in 1945 as a radio show.