Ernie Bushmiller
Cartoonist, Author
1905 – 1982
Who was Ernie Bushmiller?
Ernest Paul Bushmiller, Jr. was an American cartoonist, best known for creating the long-running daily comic strip Nancy.
Born in the South Bronx, New York, Bushmiller was the son of immigrant parents, Ernest George Bushmiller and Elizabeth Hall. His father was an artist, vaudevillian and bartender. Bushmiller quit school at 14 to work as a copy boy at the New York World newspaper, while attending evening art classes at the National Academy of Design. He ran errands for the staff cartoonists and was given occasional illustration assignments, including a Sunday feature by Harry Houdini.
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- Born
- Aug 23, 1905
South Bronx - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- The Bronx
- Died
- Aug 15, 1982
Stamford
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on July 23, 2013
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