Harry Grant Dart

Harry Grant Dart

Harry Grant Dart (1869 - 1938) was an American cartoonist and illustrator known for his futuristic and often aviation-oriented cartoons and comic strips.

His first jobs were brochures for the National Crayon Company and illustrations for the "Boston Herald". His career took off when the "New York World" arranged to send him to Cuba. He became a sketch artist for important events, his sketches being published in the newspaper in the days before photographs were used. He rose to become the art editor for "The World". It was at this time that he started perhaps his most famous comic strip, The Explorigator. [ [http://lambiek.net/artists/d/dart_harry_grant.htm Harry Grant Dart's entry on Lambiek (Accessed 8 July 2008)] ]

Intended as a rival for Windsor McCay's Little Nemo, The Explorigator concerned the flight of the eponymous airship, headed by a crew of children ages 9-10: Admiral Fudge (who, interestingly, wore a swastika on his hat), Detective Rubbersole, Maurice Mizzentop, Nicholas Nohooks, Grenadier Shift, Teddy Typewriter, and Ah Fergetit. [Bill Blackbeard, Dale Crain, Steve Vance, "100 Years of Comic Strips", p. 77] The strip only ran for 14 weeks in 1908, yet its detailed drawings of airships and various other aircraft would later find some fame in the steampunk movement. [ [http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_Explorigator Harry Grant Dart on PynchonWiki (Accessed 8 July 2008)] ]

Dart went on to become a very prolific cartoonist, continuing with Boys Will Be Boys in 1909 and Life and Judge in the 1920s. Although he is one of the more obscure cartoonists of his era, a few of his works survive in the Library of Congress. [ [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/f?fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc,iucpub,tgmi,lamb:0:./temp/~pp_8SYP: Search Results for Harry Grant Dart on Library of Congress] ]

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External links

* [http://www.paleofuture.com/search/label/harry%20grant%20dart Entry on Paleo-Future Blog]
* [http://home.att.net/~dannysoar2/HarryGrantDart.htm Small Image Gallery]


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