Gus Dirks
(1879 - 1903, USA)
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Gus Dirks was an American comics pioneer and the brother of Rudolph Dirks. Born in Chicago, he joined his brother in New York, where he began drawing for humor weeklies as Judge, Life and Puck. Gus Dirks specialized in anthropomorphic insect cartoons in the tradition of the animal/insect cartoons of Harrison Cady, T.S. Sullivan, Walt Kuhn and others.
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In 1898, he published a collection of his bug cartoons titled 'Bugville Life' with written verse by fellow Judge contributor R.K. Munkittrick. Around 1901, William Randolph Hearst offered Dirks an opportunity to create a bug-based comic strip. The strip was titled 'The Latest News from Bugville'. Gus Dirks committed suicide in 1903. He was approximately 23 years old.
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