|
Irving Walter Phillips (November 29, 1904 – October 28, 2000) was a noted American cartoonist, playwright, television scriptwriter, author, illustrator and educator who is best remembered for his daily newspaper comic panel ''The Strange World of Mr. Mum''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Irving Phillips: Cartoonist Who Created "The Strange World of Mr. Mum" )〕 Born in Wilton, Wisconsin, Phillips began his career in show business as a violinist at the age of 17. He also played the saxophone and led his own orchestras. Phillips studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and freelanced cartoons to 36 different magazines during the Great Depression. He eventually became head of the humor staff for ''Esquire'' in the late 1930s.〔''The Cartoonist Cookbook'' by Newspaper Comics Council, Theodora Illenberger, Avonne Eyre Keller. Hobbs, Dorman, 1966, p. 73.〕 Phillips scripted for motion pictures, including ''Song of the Open Road'' (1944), which featured the film debut of Jane Powell. Phillips also penned the Powell vehicle ''Delightfully Dangerous'' in 1945. For television, Phillips wrote or co-wrote more than 250 scripts, including a first-season episode of ''The Ruggles'' (1949), one of the earliest family sitcoms on American television. He scripted plays for ''Matinee Theater'', the afternoon anthology series telecast daily on NBC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Filmography by Genre for Irving Phillips )〕 Phillips provided scripts and animation art for the American Broadcasting Company children's program ''Curiosity Shop'' (1971). ==Cartoonist== As a cartoonist, he created the comics series ''Scuffy'', which ran from 1945 to 1951.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Irving Phillips (29/12/1905 – 2000, USA) )〕 From 1958 to 1974, Phillips produced his best-known work, ''The Strange World of Mr. Mum,'' a pantomime panel which ran in 180 newspapers in 22 countries.〔 It was initially distributed by the Hall Syndicate and later by the Field Newspaper Syndicate. There was no Sunday edition until 1961. Mr. Mum was a portly, bald and bespectacled character, who—as his name suggests—silently observed various odd, surprising or even surreal scenes. He was sometimes accompanied by his similarly silent dog. Mum was described as a "bystander on life's outer limits," and the feature's anything-can-happen humor is cited as paving the way for such later strips as ''Herman'', ''The Far Side'', ''Rhymes With Orange'' and ''Bizarro''.〔Horn, Maurice. ''100 Years of American Newspaper Comics: An Illustrated Encyclopedia''. Gramercy Books, 1996. ISBN 0-517-12447-5, ISBN 978-0-517-12447-5〕 With never a word of dialog, the humor of the strip translated well internationally; this was an interesting stylistic choice given Phillips' résumé as a professional screenwriter. After ''The Strange World of Mr. Mum'' ended, Phillips created a few dozen large, full-color paintings based on ideas from the strip. In 1979, he worked briefly on another strip, ''Barnaby Bungle''. 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「Irving Phillips」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|