| Ed Wheelan | |
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| Born | 1888 (1888) San Francisco,California, U.S. |
| Died | 1966 (aged 77–78) Fort Myers, Florida, U.S. |
| Area | Cartoonist |
Notable works | Minute Movies |
Edgar Stow Wheelan (1888–1966), who signed his workEd Wheelan, was an American cartoonist best known for hiscomic stripMinute Movies, satirizing silent films, and hiscomic bookFat and Slat, published byEC Comics. He was one of the earliest writer-artists to introduce daily narrative continuity andcinematic techniques to comic strips.
Born inSan Francisco, Wheelan was the son of costume designerAlbertine Randall, who drew the 1920s stripThe Dumbunnies, and businessmanFairfax Henry Wheelan, a political reformer.[1]
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Prepared at theThacher School andPhillips Exeter Academy, he graduating fromCornell University in 1911, Wheelan found employment at theSan Francisco Examiner, moving on to theNew York American, where he drew an eight-column comic strip about sports.
ForWilliam Randolph Hearst'sKing Features, he created the stripMidget Movies in 1918, but he left in 1920 after a dispute with Hearst. To replaceMidget Movies, Hearst launchedThe Thimble Theatre, drawn byElzie Crisler Segar.
Wheelan continued to mock movies in hisMinute Movies for theGeorge Matthew Adams Service. He drew the two-tieredMinute Movies from the early 1920s until 1935, developing one of the characters into a spin-off strip,Roy McCoy. Near the end of the 1930s, Wheelan teamed with Bill Walsh onBig Top, a circus strip.[1]
In the early 1940s, DC Comics brought backMinute Movies as a feature in 58 issues ofFlash Comics. In 1944,Max Gaines published theEdgar Wheelan Joke Book with Wheelan's Fat and Slat characters, who returned in their own title,Fat and Slat, which ran for four quarterly issues in 1947 and 1948. The book also featured Wheelan's"Comics" McCormick ("The World's #1 Comic Book Fan").
In the late 1940s, Wheelan drewFoney Fairy Tales, fairy tale parodies that ran as a feature inWonder Woman andComic Cavalcade.[2]
After leaving comics, Wheelan created paintings of clowns. He died in 1966 inFort Myers, Florida.[1]
In 1972,Woody Gelman reprintedMinute Movies in hisNostalgia Comics.
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