Background
Mayer, Hy. was born on July 18, 1868 in Worms-on-Rhine. Son of Hermann M., Senior, and Helen (Loeb) M.
Mayer, Hy. was born on July 18, 1868 in Worms-on-Rhine. Son of Hermann M., Senior, and Helen (Loeb) M.
Educated in England and Germany. Graduate Gymnasium, Worms, 1885.
In business, London, where his father was established as vanilla importer in 1862. Came to the United States, 1886. Spent 1 year in Mexico.
Began as artist at Cincinnati, 1887.
New York City since 1893. Illustrator for Fliegende Blaetter (Munich), Figaro Illustre, Le Rire (Paris).
Weekly page of cartoons of current events in Black and White (1898-1900), Pick-Maine-Up, Pall-Mall Magazine, Punch (London), Life (Worms-eye views), Judge, Truth, Harper’s, Century, Collier’s, et cetera Cartoonist New York Times, in weekly page entitled “Impressions of the Passing Show,” 1904-1914.
Editor in chief of Puck, New York, 1914, and contributing editor 1915.
Author: Autobiography of a Monkey, 1896. In Laughland, 1899; Fantasies in Ha-Ha, 1899. A Trip to Toyland, 1900.
Adventures of a Japanese Doll, 1901.
Alphabet of Little People, 1901. Illustrator: The Real New New York
The Top of the World. The Tumble Manitoba, 1913.
Puck Album of Caricatures, 1915.
Member Salmagundi.
Married Alice McKenna, January 31, 1924.