Kling, Ken - KEN KLING'S JOE & ASBESTOS Strip Art
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PUBLISHER: Bell Syndicate, Inc.
COMMENTS: Ken Kling pencils, inks and signed; 11/21; 5.75" x 16.75"
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Ken Kling pencils, inks and signed; 11/21; 5.75" x 16.75"
Artist Information
Kenneth Kling was an American cartoonist from New York City. He was Bud Fisher's apprentice on 'Mutt and Jeff', doing backgrounds and lettering in the first half of the 1910s. Between 1916 and 1922 he made his own feature called 'Hank and Pete' for the National Cartoon Service. 'Joe and Asbestos' a strip about horse racing earned Kling quite a living, because newspapers were paying Bell Syndicate a fortune to get the exclusive rights to publish the strip in a region. The readers thought Kling was giving handy racing tips in his cartoon, but the truth was that Kling didn't know a thing about racing when he started the strip in 1925, then still titled 'Joe Quince'. Kling had Joe picking real horses for actual races, and incredibly the picks all won.
Artist Information
Kenneth Kling was an American cartoonist from New York City. He was Bud Fisher's apprentice on 'Mutt and Jeff', doing backgrounds and lettering in the first half of the 1910s. Between 1916 and 1922 he made his own feature called 'Hank and Pete' for the National Cartoon Service. 'Joe and Asbestos' a strip about horse racing earned Kling quite a living, because newspapers were paying Bell Syndicate a fortune to get the exclusive rights to publish the strip in a region. The readers thought Kling was giving handy racing tips in his cartoon, but the truth was that Kling didn't know a thing about racing when he started the strip in 1925, then still titled 'Joe Quince'. Kling had Joe picking real horses for actual races, and incredibly the picks all won.