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A beautiful special reprinted edition of "Zim's Foolish History of Elmira" by Eugene Zimmerman. This book was first published in 1912. This new edition includes a foreward by Diane Janowski.
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Over 150 drawings and rare photos Foreword by Zim scholar Walter Brasch Biography from Zim Memorial Committee Excerpts from Zim’s other books Eugene ‘Zim’ Zimmerman pioneered the comically exaggerated “big foot” style of cartooning in America’s earliest humor magazines, Puck and Judge. After drawing tens of thousands of gags, caricatures, and illustrations, he set his pen to helping the young aspirants who desired to follow in his wake by producing a series of correspondence course books. The distillation of those lessons ultimately resulted in the book "Cartoons and Caricatures." More than a simple collection of 'how to' lessons, Zim outlines an entire philosophy of life for the would-be cartoonist, sage advice from over 30 years of experience that stands as true today as when he wrote it. Beyond the expert cartooning instruction throughout this book, Zim also offers advice on a variety of esoteric subjects, including: Swiping! Booze and bohemianism! Dealing with editors! Cartoonists and marriage! Esperanto! …and much more! Zim approaches all of these subjects with a generosity of spirit and boisterousness that was the hallmark of his cartooning. In the end, Zim’s aim with this book was simple: to help young cartoonists better understand how to make the world laugh. And laughter is something that never goes out of style.
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Zimmerman was born on May 25, 1862 in Basel, Switzerland, the youngest of the three children of Joseph and Amelia (Klotz) Zimmerman. His father, a native of Alsace, conducted a bakery. The mother died when Eugene was two years old and the boy was under the care of an uncle and aunt in Alsace until he was seven. He was then taken to his father and brother in Paterson, New Jersey, where they had previously settled.
Zimmerman attended the schools of Paterson, but the knowledge that later served him well - that of human nature - he acquired in following many casual occupations.
Zimmerman was an office boy, weaver, baker's apprentice, farmhand, and fish-peddler. When he was about seventeen he became a sign-painter and moved to Elmira, New York. Several years later he joined an advertising-sign manufacturer's staff at Horseheads, New York. He had a decided taste for drawing, especially comic drawing. Some of his sketches fell into the hands of Joseph Keppler, who encouraged him to seek a job with Puck, although he lacked all formal art education. He succeeded in obtaining it and three years later, 1885, he joined the staff of Judge, with which he remained as political cartoonist and comic draftsman until his retirement in 1913. In those twenty-eight years he attained a national reputation. As a political cartoonist he was far behind Thomas Nast, Joseph Keppler, Bernhard Gillam, and James A. Wales, but as a shrewd and humorous observer and recorder of human nature on the street and on the farm, in the village, and in the home he was without a peer. "Zim" belonged with F. B. Opper to the grotesque or the exaggerated distortion phase of American graphic humor. In fact they created it between them, and they themselves were its most prolific exponents. Zimmerman's humanity shows through the grotesque humor of the distortions in the keenness of his appreciation of significant detail. There are no smiles in his work, no tenderness of line, no pathos, and yet he reaches to the heart of life and of humor more successfully and more sincerely than those who are deliberately wistful or pathetic. In his later years he conducted a correspondence school for comic art and caricature from his home at Horseheads, New York, and in 1905 he published This and That about Caricature. He might easily have imparted the secrets of his limited technique - a technique all-sufficient for his own purposes; but his robust, boisterous, shrewd, and kindly nature made him what he was - not a great artist but a great figure in comic art. He had descendants rather than imitators, for he was the forerunner of all those comic-strip artists whose fame and popularity stem from their sympathetic, homely humor. He organized a band of fifty pieces and a boys' band, contributed drawings to church fairs, and assisted in other town enterprises. Zimmerman died on March 26, 1935.
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Zimmerman helped to found the American Association of Cartoonists and Caricaturists in 1926 and was its first president. In the affairs of Horseheads no one was more active. He served for two terms on the village board of trustees and for twenty-two years he was a member of the volunteer fire company.
On September 29, 1886, Zimmerman married Mabel Alice Beard by whom he had a daughter, Laura Emily.
