Syracuse University SURFACE The Courier Libraries Winter 1979 Bud Fisher—Pioneer Dean of the Comic Artists Ray Thompson Follow this and additional works at: https://surface.syr.edu/libassoc Part of the American Art and Architecture Commons, and the American Popular Culture Commons Recommended Citation Thompson, Ray. "Bud Fisher—Pioneer Dean of the Comic Artists." The Courier 16.3 and 16.4 (1979): 23-36. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Libraries at SURFACE. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Courier by an authorized administrator of SURFACE. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. ISSN 0011-0418 ARCHIMEDES RUSSELL, 1840 - 1915 from Memorial History ofSyracuse, New York, From Its Settlement to the Present Time, by Dwight H. Bruce, Published in Syracuse, New York, by H.P. Smith, 1891. THE COURIER SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY ASSOCIATES Volume XVI, Numbers 3 and 4, Winter 1979 Table of Contents Winter 1979 Page Archimedes Russell and Nineteenth-Century Syracuse 3 by Evamaria Hardin Bud Fisher-Pioneer Dean of the Comic Artists 23 by Ray Thompson News of the Library and Library Associates 37 Bud Fisher - Pioneer Dean of the Comic Artists by Ray Thompson The George Arents Research Library for Special Collections at Syracuse University has an extensive collection of original drawings by American cartoonists. Among the most famous of these are Bud Fisher's "Mutt and Jeff." Harry Conway (Bud) Fisher had the distinction of producing the coun try's first successful daily comic strip. Comics had been appearing in the press of America ever since the introduction of Richard F.