Walter C. Hoban started his career at the newspaper The North American, where he got a job as an office boy, hoping to become a reporter. Not having any ambitions to become a professional comic artist, he was asked to draw sports gags for the newspaper. In 1912, he joined the New York Journal, where he instantly created his best-known comic 'Jerry On The Job', which became quite popular.
In the 1930s, Hoban decided to create another comic, 'Needlenose Noonan'. This comic was published on the Sunday Page together with another Hoban creation, 'Discontinued Stories' by The Mirror and Puck. Neither comic achieved the success Hoban wanted, and he turned to commercial art. He died in 1939, at the age of 49.
