Bud Fisher - Thoroughbred horse racing

Cartoonist, born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He studied at Chicago University. then became staff cartoonist of the San Francisco Chronicle (1905), where he introduced a regular strip, A Mutt, illustrating the racing tips of a gambler named Mr A Mutt and involving Mutt's family, cat included (1907). He later moved to the San Francisco Examiner, where Jeff, Mutt's partner, was introduced in 1908, but the title did not change to Mutt and Jeff until 1915. In the 1920s he was the highest-paid cartoonist in the world.

Harry Conway "Bud" Fisher (April 3, 1885 - September 7, 1954) was an American cartoonist who created the first successful daily comic strip in the United States.

The "Mutt and Jeff" comic strip gained such popularity that Fisher, who was able to claim copyright to the characters, received an offer to produce it for the San Francisco Examiner owned by William Randolph Hearst.

In 1911, Nestor Studios of New Jersey acquired the right to make "Mutt and Jeff" short film comedies after which Fisher decided he could make more money controlling film production himself. As a result, in 1913 he created the "Bud Fisher Film Corporation" and signed a deal with American Pathé. They made thirty-six "Mutt and Jeff" short comedies in 1913 but for more than two years production ceased when Fisher's copyright claim was challenged. Once the courts upheld Fishers copyright claim, the comic strip was syndicated nationwide and 1916 and 1926, his film production company created another two hundred and seventy-seven "Mutt and Jeff" film productions. On these film projects, Fisher is almost exclusively credited as the writer, animator, and director, however, the majority of the animation work was actually done by animators Raoul Barré and Charles Bowers.

"Mutt and Jeff" was also published in comic book form and the income from its multiple uses made Bud Fisher a very wealthy man.

Thoroughbred horse racing

Fisher acquired a large stable of Thoroughbred racehorses.

Bud Fisher died at the age of sixty-nine in New York City and was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx.