comic art by Hy Mayer
Comic strip by Hy Mayer. 

Hy Mayer was born in 1868 in Worms, Germany, and emigrated to America. He was a prolific illustrator for numerous magazines of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, like Le Figaro Illustré and Pall Mall Gazette in Europe. Between 1904 and 1914 he was a political cartoonist for The New York Times, while from 1914 on he served as chief editor of the satirical magazine Puck. Mayer mostly made full-page illustrations, single-panel cartoons and illustrative collages depicting current events and social themes. He also created occasional sequential illlustrations.

In 1913, Mayer moved on to animation and then live-action movies as a writer, animator, director and/or producer in over a hundred films from 1913 to 1926. He worked for Universal Studios on their 'Universal Animated Weekly' newsreels and 'Travelaughs' series (1913-1920) and the 'Such is Life' series. Together with Otto Messmer, he created the animated series 'The Travels of Teddy', the first example in animation history of a series built around a celebrity, namely former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. Mayer died in 1954. 

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