Dudley Fisher was a syndicated newspaper cartoonist, best known for his character Myrtle who was introduced in his Sunday page

Sunday strip

A Sunday strip is a newspaper comic strip format, where comic strips are printed in the Sunday newspaper, usually in a special section called the Sunday comics, and virtually always in color. Some readers called these sections the Sunday funnies...

, Right Around Home, distributed by King Features Syndicate

King Features Syndicate

King Features Syndicate, a print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to nearly 5000 newspapers worldwide...

 under various titles from 1937 to 1964.

Born in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

Columbus is the capital of and the largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio. The broader metropolitan area encompasses several counties and is the third largest in Ohio behind those of Cleveland and Cincinnati. Columbus is the third largest city in the American Midwest, and the fifteenth largest city...

, Fisher was studying to be an architect at Ohio State University

Ohio State University

The Ohio State University, commonly referred to as Ohio State, is a public research university located in Columbus, Ohio. It was originally founded in 1870 as a land-grant university and is currently the third largest university campus in the United States...

 when he dropped out to work as a newspaper layout artist at The Columbus Dispatch

The Columbus Dispatch

The Columbus Dispatch is a daily newspaper based in Columbus, Ohio. Its first issue was published on July 1, 1871, and has been the only mainstream daily newspaper in the city since The Columbus Citizen-Journal stopped printing in 1985....

.

Comic strips

After serving in an aerial photography unit during World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, he returned in 1919 to Columbus and the Dispatch, where he created the two-color daily panel Jolly Jingles (1924-37). In 1937, tired of devising the Jolly Jingles rhymes, he created Right Around Home

Right Around Home

Right Around Home was an innovative comic strip by Dudley Fisher which was distributed by King Features Syndicate from 1937 to 1964.Fisher drew a suburban setting with a focus on one family in that neighborhood, but what made his Sunday strip unique was the format...

depicting a suburban family. He immediately attracted attention with the experimental concept of an elevated down-angle view showing numerous characters in a large single panel filling an entire Sunday page.

Five years later, King Features asked Fisher to do a daily version of Right Around Home in a conventional comic strip format, and Myrtle began in 1942. Fisher worked for the Columbus Dispatch and on his two newspaper strips until his death in 1951.

Bob Vittur stepped in to draw Right Around Home through 1952, when it was retitled Right Around Home with Myrtle. It continued under that title until 1964.

Sources

Strickler, Dave

Dave Strickler

Dave Strickler is a reference librarian noted for his compilation of Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924–1995: The Complete Index, regarded as a major reference work by researchers and historians of newspaper comic strips....

. Syndicated Comic Strips and Artists, 1924-1995: The Complete Index. Cambria, California: Comics Access, 1995. ISBN 0-9700077-0-1

External links

• Toonopedia: Right Around Home