Jimmy Swinnerton
Cartoonist, Author
1875 – 1974
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Who was Jimmy Swinnerton?
James Guilford Swinnerton was an American cartoonist and a landscape painter of the Southwest deserts. He was known as Jimmy to some and Swinny to others. He signed some of his early cartoons Swin, and on one ephemeral comic strip he used Guilford as his signature. Experimenting with narrative continuity, he played a key role in the development of the comic strip at the end of the 19th century.
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- Born
- Nov 13, 1875
Eureka - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- San Francisco Art Institute
- Lived in
- Eureka
- Died
- Sep 8, 1974
Palm Springs
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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