Funny Cartoons Wallpapers Biography
I have written about Lowell Hoppes before, a good enough gag cartoonist who worked 40 years with very little recognition from his home in Sarasota, Florida. Snippets and nubs of his long career emerge as various magazine archives are added to the all-knowing web, including a bit from the National Cattleman's association which indicates he drew a campaign intending to "tickle the funny bone with a T-bone" (!) Eh...you take work when you can get it.
Hoppes moved to Florida in 1940. Also now known is that Lowell was "a 24 year vet of the cartoon trade" as early as 1957, and that he was always a grumpy old man. He quoted his father's old line "The world is going to the dogs!" He hated the invention of television (as it made his readers pay more attention to the gag line than the drawing and presented "bad attitudes" to people.) Forty years later he hated the internet! In 1997 he was quoted as not having a computer.
Hoppes was a bricklayer before taking a correspondence course in cartooning. Like all cartoonists I suppose, he began by copying earlier work he saw in the popular media. Hoppes first cartoon sale was to Country Home, a Collier publication WAY back when. In it, a confused farmer mistakes a porcelain doorknob for a chicken's egg. This information comes from a 1957 issue of the Sarasota Journal, where it appropriately ran on the comics page.
I have written about Lowell Hoppes before, a good enough gag cartoonist who worked 40 years with very little recognition from his home in Sarasota, Florida. Snippets and nubs of his long career emerge as various magazine archives are added to the all-knowing web, including a bit from the National Cattleman's association which indicates he drew a campaign intending to "tickle the funny bone with a T-bone" (!) Eh...you take work when you can get it.
Hoppes moved to Florida in 1940. Also now known is that Lowell was "a 24 year vet of the cartoon trade" as early as 1957, and that he was always a grumpy old man. He quoted his father's old line "The world is going to the dogs!" He hated the invention of television (as it made his readers pay more attention to the gag line than the drawing and presented "bad attitudes" to people.) Forty years later he hated the internet! In 1997 he was quoted as not having a computer.
Hoppes was a bricklayer before taking a correspondence course in cartooning. Like all cartoonists I suppose, he began by copying earlier work he saw in the popular media. Hoppes first cartoon sale was to Country Home, a Collier publication WAY back when. In it, a confused farmer mistakes a porcelain doorknob for a chicken's egg. This information comes from a 1957 issue of the Sarasota Journal, where it appropriately ran on the comics page.
Funny Cartoons Wallpapers
Funny Cartoons Wallpapers
Funny Cartoons Wallpapers
Funny Cartoons Wallpapers
Funny Cartoons Wallpapers
Funny Cartoons Wallpapers
Funny Cartoons Wallpapers
Funny Cartoons Wallpapers
Bubble Bee (1948)
Bug Bunny Vs Wil E. Coyote
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