Well, it's about doggone time that One-Shot Wonder Saturdays finally heard from the inimitable Eddie Eksergian, the rootinest, tootinest, wackiest cartooner that there ever was. Eddie's Sunday comic stripping was mainly for the St. Louis Star, but in 1904 he switched hometown teams and went over to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The above strip is from the tail end of his comic strip career, appearing on April 9 1905, the week after the last of his Sunday series had bitten the dust. Eks stayed in the cartooning game for years more, but as far as I know, he never penned another newspaper comics series.
Eddie Eks died in 1943; his 1/29/43 obituary in the Globe-Democrat notes that he had eventually drifted out of cartooning; he seems to have done a lot of spot sports cartoons in the teens and twenties.
ReplyDeleteIn comments to that bio post, Eddie Eks's daughter tried to make contact with Mark Johnson. I wonder if they finally got in touch.
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