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From lambiek.net: T[homas] E. Powers was an early American newspaper comic artist, and apparently the first American to draw a newspaper color comic strip. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he moved to Kansas City, where he was educated in public schools and got his start working for a lithographer. Powers later worked for the Chicago Herald and in 1894 was offered a job in New York with the Evening World. By 1896 he and his colleague Arthur Brisbane found employment with the New York...
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From lambiek.net: T[homas] E. Powers was an early American newspaper comic artist, and apparently the first American to draw a newspaper color comic strip. Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, he moved to Kansas City, where he was educated in public schools and got his start working for a lithographer. Powers later worked for the Chicago Herald and in 1894 was offered a job in New York with the Evening World. By 1896 he and his colleague Arthur Brisbane found employment with the New York Evening World of tycoon William Randolph Hearst. Powers was one of Hearst's favorite artists, and also President Theodore Roosevelt's favourite cartoonist (according to his obituary). The comic reprints from are reproduced from actual classic comics, and sometimes reflect the imperfection of books that are decades old