Jerry Iger

Samuel Maxwell Jerry Iger (* August 22, 1903; † 5 September 1990 in New York City, New York) was an American cartoonist, comic book artist and author. He was one of the first who gave the original material for the newly developing market of comic books.

Life and work

Although Iger had not received appropriate training, he was in 1925 Cartoonist of the New York Journal American and worked in parallel advertising orders. In 1935 he published in the appearing since 1929 comic -book series Famous Funnies, in the beginning only newspaper strips have been reprinted, his own series Bobby, Peewee and Happy Daze. The next year was editor of Iger Wow! What a Magazine and published there, among other things, the first work by Bob Kane and Will Eisner. With Eisner together Iger founded in 1937 his own character studio that employed numerous signatories in subsequent years, including Klaus Nordling, Jack Kirby, Lou Fine and Al Feldstein. Among the most famous comics of the studio Sheena was for the magazine Jumbo. The late 1930s, Eisner left the joint venture and Iger led the studio until its closure in 1955 alone on. Following the closure of his studio Iger worked for advertising.

According to Andreas C. Knigge Iger is "one of the most successful pioneers of the comic business," even though his own comics " never became sensational successes [ ... ] ". Iger was recorded in 2009 in the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.