Dan Martin (cartoonist)

Last updated

Dan Martin is a 20th and 21st century American cartoonist.

Contents

Martin, a St. Louis native, was graduated from Lindbergh High School. At age 16, He worked at Six Flags Over Mid-America as caricaturist. He joined the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1980 out of the University of Kansas. [1] [2]

Martin draws the Weatherbird for the Post-Dispatch. He is the sixth cartoonist to draw the Weatherbird, which debuted in 1901 and appears every day on the paper's front page. He is the second-longest serving Weatherbird artist (after Amadee Wohlschlaeger), having taken over the strip in 1986. [3] "Albert Schweitzer, who was drawing the Bird at the time, told me he was planning to retire" Martin said. "After I had practiced for about a year, we took 10 Weatherbird drawings of mine mixed in with 10 of Albert’s and showed them to editor Bill Woo, who couldn’t tell the difference... So I got the job." [2]

In 1987, [4] Martin eliminated the cigar which had been emblematic of the character since its inception, He also restored the bird's beak to some degree (previous Weatherbird cartoonists had atrophied the beak to the point of a flat-faced Weatherbird). [5] It usually takes Martin about 45 minutes to create a Weatherbird cartoon. [6]

Martin also drew the weekly cartoon "Postcard From Mound City" for the Post-Dispatch editorial page [1] ("Mound City" is a nickname for St. Louis, based on the nearby Cahokia Mounds).

Martin went into semi-retirement in 2023. He still draws the Weatherbird, but gave up additional cartooning duties. [7]

Works

Related Research Articles

<i>The Far Side</i> Comic strip by Gary Larson

The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995. Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life. Larson's frequent use of animals and nature in the comic is popularly attributed to his background in biology. The Far Side was ultimately carried by more than 1,900 daily newspapers, translated into 17 languages, and collected into calendars, greeting cards, and 23 compilation books, and reruns are still carried in many newspapers. After a 25-year hiatus, in July 2020 Larson began drawing new Far Side strips offered through the comic's official website.

<i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</i> Daily newspaper in Missouri, United States

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a major regional newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, serving the St. Louis metropolitan area. It is the largest daily newspaper in the metropolitan area by circulation, surpassing the Belleville News-Democrat, Alton Telegraph, and Edwardsville Intelligencer. The publication has received 19 Pulitzer Prizes.

Patrick Bruce "Pat" Oliphant is an Australian-born American artist whose career spanned more than sixty years. His body of work as a whole focuses mostly on American and global politics, culture, and corruption; he is particularly known for his caricatures of American presidents and other powerful leaders. Over the course of his long career, Oliphant produced thousands of daily editorial cartoons, dozens of bronze sculptures, as well as a large oeuvre of drawings and paintings. He retired in 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dik Browne</span> American cartoonist (1917–1989)

Richard Arthur Allan Browne was an American cartoonist, best known for writing and drawing Hägar the Horrible and Hi and Lois.

Nick Anderson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American editorial cartoonist whose cartoons typically present liberal viewpoints. He currently draws cartoons for the Tribune Content Agency. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post and USA Today. He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor. In addition, he is co-founder of Counterpoint Media.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jack Ohman</span> American cartoonist

Jack Ohman is an American editorial cartoonist and educator. He is currently a contributing opinion columnist and cartoonist for the San Francisco Chronicle. He formerly worked for The Sacramento Bee and the The Oregonian. His work is syndicated nationwide to over 300 newspapers by Tribune Media Services. In 2016, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.

Downstown was an American syndicated comic strip created by Tim Downs that ran from 1974 to 1986.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Liza Donnelly</span> American cartoonist and writer

Liza Donnelly is an American cartoonist and writer, best known for her work in The New Yorker and is resident cartoonist of CBS News. Donnelly is the creator of digital live drawing, a new form of journalism wherein she draws using a tablet, and shares impressions and visual reports of events and news instantly on social media. She has drawn this way for numerous media outlets, including CBS News, The New Yorker, Fusion, NBC and covered live the Oscars, Democratic National Convention, the 2017 Presidential Inauguration, among others. She writes a regular column for Medium on politics and global women's rights; Donnelly is the author of eighteen books.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Iconography of St. Louis</span>

The Iconography of St. Louis, Missouri is strongly informed by the city's French and German heritages, physical features, and place in American history.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Daniel R. Fitzpatrick</span> American cartoonist

Daniel Robert Fitzpatrick was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and an editorial cartoonist for the St. Louis Dispatch from 1913 to 1958.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tom Little (cartoonist)</span> American editorial cartoonist

Thomas Little was an American editorial cartoonist. Working for The Nashville Tennessean, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1957.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Weatherbird</span> Cartoon bird character

The Weatherbird is a cartoon character and a single-panel comic. It is printed on the front of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and has been in the paper continuously since 1901, making it the longest-running American newspaper cartoon and a mascot of the newspaper.

Amadee Wohlschlaeger was a 20th-century American sports cartoonist in St. Louis. He was known professionally as simply "Amadee", which was how he signed his cartoons. He was a long-time sports cartoonist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, in an era when newspaper sports pages usually included a prominent cartoon. He drew the Weatherbird cartoon for more than 49 years.

Weatherbird is a cartoon character and strip in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Harry B. Martin</span> American cartoonist

Harry B. "Dickie" Martin was an American cartoonist and golf writer, one of the founding members of the Professional Golfers' Association of America (PGA).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">S. Carlisle Martin</span> American cartoonist

Samuel Carlisle Martin (1867–1932) was an American newspaper cartoonist and illustrator.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Marguerite Martyn</span> American journalist (1878–1948)

Marguerite Martyn was an American journalist and political cartoonist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in the early 20th century. She was noted as much for her published sketches as for her articles.

Albert L. Schweitzer was an American artist. He was known for his work as a newspaper cartoonist for St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He illustrated its Weatherbird cartoon from 1981 to 1986.

Oscar Charles Chopin was an American artist known for his cartoon illustrations that appeared in several newspapers. He drew the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Weatherbird cartoon from 1903 to 1910.

References

  1. 1 2 Gilbert Bailon (March 24, 2014). "From the editor: Celebrating the Weatherbird". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  2. 1 2 Suzy Rust (August 3, 2012). "BOOZE DOODLES: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Weatherbird Illustrator Dan Martin's "Warm Bird Keeper"". Feast. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  3. ↑ "St. Louis Public Library UPDATE: A Tribute to Amadee". St. Louis Public Library, City of St. Louis. September 4, 2014. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  4. ↑ Dan Martin, Huy Mach. Dan Martin draws the Weatherbird (Digital video) (Digital video). St. Louis: St. Louis Post-Disptach. Event occurs at 1:46. Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  5. ↑ Jim Allen. "Dan Martin and the St. Louis Cartoon Connection". The Glyph (Great Lakes NCS Newsletter). Archived from the original on November 17, 2017. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  6. ↑ Hemphill, Evie (April 13, 2021). "Under Dan Martin's Steady Hand, 120-Year-Old Weatherbird Still Lands In Post-Dispatch Daily". STLPR. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
  7. ↑ Simon, Benjamin. "RFT Asks: What's It Like Drawing the Post-Dispatch Weatherbird?". Riverfront Times. Retrieved 2023-05-25.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.