The Fisher Boy [SEP] creator
The Fisher Boy
The Fisher Boy is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in the early 1630s, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp.
Painting.
This painting was documented by Hofstede de Groot in 1910, who wrote "49. DE STRANDLOOPER VAN HAARLEM (The Haarlem Fisher-Boy). B. 37 ; M. 254. Half-length ; life size. A fisher-boy, seen in full face, laughs at the spectator. His arms are folded on
premiere. Like many comics of the time, "All-American" debuted with a mix of newspaper comic strips, reprinted in color, and a smattering of original, comic-strip-like features. Among the strips were three hits of the era: "Mutt and Jeff", by Al Smith ghosting for strip creator Bud Fisher; "Skippy", by Percy Crosby; and "Toonerville Folks" by Fontaine Fox. New content included "Scribbly", a semiautobiographical Mayer feature about a boy cartoonist. "