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''Our Boarding House'' was a long-running, American single-panel cartoon and comic strip created by Gene Ahern in 1921 and syndicated by Newspaper Enterprise Association. Set in a boarding house run by the sensible Mrs. Hoople, it drew humor from the interactions of her grandiose, tall-tale-telling husband, the self-styled Major Hoople, with the rooming-house denizens and his various friends and cronies. After Ahern left NEA in March 1936 to create a similar feature at a rival syndicate, he was succeeded by a number of artists and writers, including Wood Cowan and Bela Zaboly, before Bill Freyse took over as ''Our Boarding House'' artist from 1939 to 1969. Others who worked on the strip included Jim Branagan and Tom McCormick. The Sunday color strip ended on March 29, 1981; the weekday panel continued until December 22, 1984. ==Publication history== In 1921, Gene Ahern created the comic strip ''Crazy Quilt'', starring the Nut Brothers, Ches and Wal. That same year, NEA General Manager Frank Rostock suggested to Ahern that he use a boarding house for a setting. Ahern initially used his own experiences as a boarder while a Chicago, Illinois, art student as grist for his comic mill, and featured the picaresque peccadilloes and bickering of its residents, presided over by the no-nonsense Martha Hoople.〔Horn, Maurice. ''100 Years of American Newspaper Comics'' (Gramercy Books : New York, Avenel, 1996), ISBN 0-517-12447-5, ISBN 978-0-517-12447-5. ''Our Boarding House'' entry, pp. 230-231〕 ''Our Boarding House'' began September 16, 1921,〔(Toonopedia: ''Our Boarding House'' )〕 scoring success with readers after the January 1922 arrival of the fustian, blustery Major Amos B. Hoople, Martha's husband, who'd returned after some long sojourn. "Hoople has been compared to the type created on-screen by W. C. Fields, but was probably closer to Falstaff," writes comics historian Maurice Horn. "A retired military man of dubious achievement like Shakespeare's (figure ), he boasted of soldierly exploits that were perhaps not all invented, and his buffoonery sometimes concealed real pathos."〔 That character depth diminished as the comic became more popular, with Major Hoople becoming "the one-dimensional figure of fun most people remember" of the strip.〔 The primary boarders were the cynical Clyde and Mack, and the only somewhat more trusting Buster.〔 According to comics historian Allan Holtz, a multi-panel Sunday strip was added on December 31, 1922. Starting from October 25, 1931, Ahern's ''The Nut Bros'', featuring loony siblings Ches and Wal in pun-filled, vaudevillian bits of business, ran as a topper strip.〔 Ahern left NEA in March 1936 to create the similar ''Room and Board'' for King Features Syndicate, ''Our Boarding House'' "passed into the hands of a bewildering array of artists and writers" including Bela "Bill" Zaboly,〔〔("Comic Strip Credits L-P: ''Our Boarding House''" )〕 at The Comic Strip Project.〔http://www.webcitation.org/5vGu4SsRI WebCitation archive.〕 before Bill Freyse (the father of the American actress Lynn Borden) took over the art for ''Our Boarding House'' from 1939 until his death in 1969.〔〔http://www.lambiek.net/artists/f/freyse_bill.htm Lambiek Comiclopedia: Bill Freyse〕 Writer Bill Braucher scripted from 1939 to 1958,〔 followed by Tom McCormick on the daily from 1959 on. Freyse's 1960s assistant, Jim Branagan, drew the strip from 1969 to 1971,〔〔 succeeded then by Les Carroll. The Sunday strip came to an end on March 29, 1981, and continued as a daily feature until December 22, 1984, when Carroll and writer Tom McCormick retired.〔 Others who worked on the strip included writers Wood Cowan in 1946, Tom Peoples on the Sunday strip circa 1968, and Phil Pastoret on the Sunday strip from 1977 on.〔 The finale had Hoople finally striking it rich: a multimillion dollar project needed a minor patent that he had obtained many years ago. In the last strip, Hoople and Martha embarked upon their new lives of wealth. Ahern once revealed the origin of Major Hoople: 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「Our Boarding House」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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