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Harry J. Tuthill (1886–1957) was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip ''The Bungle Family''. Born in Chicago, Illinois, he grew up in the tenements and worked as a newsboy, quitting when a tough guy muscled in on his corner. At age 15, he traveled the midwest, finding employment with a foot surgeon, selling baking powder, patented eggbeaters and pictures, plus working as a medicine show barker in a street carnival. As he recalled, he left "to work on and at such things as selling enlarged pictures, soliciting for a corn doctor, and for one delirious season carrying on with a medicine show. I would not mention these things except that I feel what may be a pardonable pride in their diversity." During his late teens, he settled in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was employed for $10 a week as a foreman at the St. Louis Dairy, where he washed milk cans for seven years.〔(Lambiek: Harry J. Tuthill )〕 By the age of 30, he still had not sold any cartoons. Finding encouragement on his artwork from Bob Grable of World Color Printing, he worked for the ''St. Louis Star'' and then moved to the ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch''. He took night classes at Washington University, studying engineering and art, and signed on as a full-time cartoonist with the ''St. Louis Star'' during World War I, doing a strip titled ''Lafe'' about a lazy handyman, and attracting national attention for his editorial cartoons. ==Comic strips== In 1918, Tuthill launched ''Home Sweet Home'', a strip about apartment life, in the ''New York Evening Mail''.〔〔Marschall, Rick. "Harry J. Tuthill", ''Nemo, the Classic Comics Library'' 5 (February 1984)〕 During the six-year run, it introduced George and Josephine Bungle, and he retitled it as ''The Bungle Family'' in 1924. Distributed initially by the McClure Syndicate and later by the McNaught Syndicate, the strip was carried by 120 newspapers. Comics historian Rick Marschall praised Tuthill's work, "Seldom has there been a strip (''Moon Mullins'' comes to mind) registering a sustained, masterful indictment of ''petite-bourgeois'' sensibilities and preoccupations as did ''The Bungle Family''."〔 He also drew ''Alice and Her Bothersome Little Brother'' and ''Napoleon Blunder'' during the 1920s. ''Little Brother'' ran as a topper strip to ''The Bungle Family''. Tuthill’s strips from 1919 to 1926 were created in his home studio at 4537 Tower Grove Place in St. Louis, eventually moving to Ferguson, Missouri outside St. Louis. His sister, Irene Morrisson, also lived in the St. Louis area. Tuthill continued to draw ''The Bungle Family'' for McNaught until he had a dispute with the syndicate in 1939, which no longer carried the strip in 1942. After a hiatus, the strip returned May 16, 1943, with newspapers running a promotional banner, "The Bungles Are Back!" The final two years were syndicated by Tuthill himself until 1945 when he retired. He died of heart disease in 1957.〔〔 His son, Harold Tuthill, who worked for 47 years as a ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'' sports writer, died of a heart ailment in 1988 at the age of 82. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harry J. Tuthill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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