Jimmy Hatlo Comic Strip - Mutoscope Cards - 32 cards
(Mutoscope Arcade Cards based on Jimmy Hatlo's Comic Strip...)
Mutoscope Arcade Cards based on Jimmy Hatlo's Comic Strips for King Features Syndicate. Most are copyright 1944. A group of 32 cards in very fine condition. Strips include Little Iodine and There Oughta Be A Law
(Hatlo's Inferno is a satirical comic strip by cartoonist ...)
Hatlo's Inferno is a satirical comic strip by cartoonist Jimmy Hatlo. It is based on Dante's Inferno or The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential works of world literature. It is certainly the greatest literaty work ever composed in the Italian Language. The Divine Comedy tells the story of Dante himself as he is led through Hell itself before finally reaching Heaven. Hell is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth. It is based on a paradox in the Christian religion. According to Christian beliefs, in order to get into Heaven one must believe in and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. However, what about those people who were born and who died before Jesus Christ was even born? Why cannot those people ever get into Heaven? Do they Go to Hell? Or do they stay in some in-between place such as Limbo or Purgatory or do their souls even exist? Dante meets the Roman Poet Virgil who was born in 70 BC and died in 19 BC and thus had died just before Jesus Christ had been born. Because Virgil never met Jesus Christ, he cannot get into Heaven. However, Virgil can walk through Hell without being punished as he was a man without fault. Therefore, Virgil appears as Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory. The two of them begin their journey by going through the Gate to Hell which has the famous words “Abandon All Hope All Ye Who Enter Here.” They go through the different levels or Circles of Hell, witnessing each man who sinned and the punishment he is condemned to receive forever. Each sin's punishment in Inferno is a symbolic instance of poetic justice. For example, fortune-tellers are required to walk with their heads on backwards, unable to see what is ahead, because that was what they had tried to do in real life. In Hatlo's Inferno, taking this idea of punishing people in Hell by doing to them what they did to others during their lives, Hatlo points out the punishment for those such as those who mow their lawns early in the morning thereby waking up the neighbors. A nurse who spent her career sticking needles into her patients is forever stuck with needles by the demons in Hell. Hatlo launched The Hatlo Inferno as an accompaniment to They’ll Do It Every Time in 1951. The panel, which ran until 1958, took a sadistically humorous look at the comeuppance of various malefactors in a cartoonish depicted hell, with Satan’s henchmen standing in for Hatlo’s usual Greek chorus of commentators.
Jimmy Hatlo was an American cartoonist. He was the author of the long-running comic strip and gag panel They'll Do It Every Time, and of Little Iodine, which was adapted into a feature-length movie.
Background
Jimmy Hatlo was born James Cecil Hatlow on September 1, 1897 in East Providence, Rhode Island, United States. He was the son of James Melbourne Hatlow, a printer who had emigrated from the Orkney Islands, and of Isabelle Putnam.
Hatlo's father was totally deaf and Jimmy learned to communicate with him in sign language. This ability later aided him in his work; he could make his characters communicate a telling message with a few gestures.
In 1899 James Hatlow moved his family to Los Angeles, where he became a headline setter for the Los Angeles Times.
Education
Hatlo spent only one year in high school.
Career
Hatlo joined his father at the Times as a printer's devil, and later moved into the art department, his real interest, but the limited chances for advancement prompted him to leave the paper and go into publicity work. His accounts included Mack Sennett and several automobile companies. Hatlo's career in publicity was a short one.
In 1918 he moved to San Francisco, where he became an automobile editor, first for the Bulletin and then for the Call. He continued to draw, turning out occasional editorial cartoons, and in 1921 he became the sports cartoonist, producing a strip called "Swineskin Gulch. "
In 1928, Hatlo was asked to dash off something to fill a blank space on the comics page of the Call. The result - "They'll Do It Every Time" - was immediately successful, and by 1935 had become nationally syndicated, eventually running in some 800 papers. The cartoon featured such people as J. P. Bigdome, everybody's pompous boss; Henry Tremblechin, the much-put-upon office worker; any number of drunks called Lushwell; Phootkiss the yes-man; Bloodstone the credit manager; Mothwallet the skinflint; and other immediately recognizable characters bearing such names as Lugbolt, Fescue, and Iguana.
Hatlo got most of his ideas from readers, and he always acknowledged his source in a small box in the corner, labeled "Thanx and tip of the Hatlo hat to, " followed by the person's name and complete address. He received aid from other sources as well - in the form of assistants who did most of the finished drawings. Tommy Thompson, who drew in exactly the same style as Hatlo, refined his sketches and then forwarded them to Bob Dunn in New York for further work. Dunn was the chief artist for "Little Iodine, " an offspring of "They'll Do It Every Time. "
After World War II, he settled in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where he became part of a cartoonist community that included such artists as Gus Arriola, Frank O'Neal, Eldon Dedini and Hank Ketcham. At their peak, his cartoons appeared in over 400 newspapers worldwide.
Many of Hatlo's characters had little balloons above their heads showing what they were really thinking. A restaurant cook, for example, might be imagining obnoxious customers being boiled alive in a large cauldron. These repressed revenges, which sometimes carried the caption "the urge to kill, " became the basis of a new strip called "Hatlo's Inferno. " In one memorable cartoon, inveterate revolving-door shovers were depicted with their feet nailed to the outer edges of a rapidly spinning giant turntable, with the devil himself at the controls. In hundreds of similar cartoons, Hatlo consigned such boors to their own particular hell.
Hatlo's drawings are characterized by a wealth of detail - one might say they border on the busy. There are many secondary characters, and most of them have a great deal to say about the central figures in the drawings - all of it withering and all of it funny. Hatlo admitted that he borrowed from the style of T. A. "Tad" Dorgan, the creator of a strip called "Indoor Sports. " In turn, Hatlo's influence can be seen in such strips as "Right Around Home" and "There Oughta Be a Law. " Many of the titles of these strips entered the language as everyday expressions. He spent at least four months of the year in New York City "so as not to stagnate. "
After his death at his home, "Wit's End, " in Pebble Beach, California, his cartoons were continued by Dunn and two collaborators.
Achievements
Jimmy Hatlo went down in history as a notable cartoonist, best remembered for his cartoon strip "They'll Do It Every Time" which ran for nearly forty years.
Veteran journalist Bob Greene characterized Hatlo's daily cartoons, which credited readers who contributed the ideas, as a forerunner of Facebook and Twitter.
Hatlo was recognized for his work with the National Cartoonists Society's Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for 1957 and 1959. The Banshees gave Hatlo their Siliver Lady Award.
The 2016 centennial of Carmel-by-the-Sea celebrated Hatlo as one of the noted cartoonists who were part of the town's history.
A quick-tempered man, Hatlo resembled some of the irritable characters in his work. One friend remarked that no one could "wreck a dinner party faster than Jimmy. " He also apparently inspired loyalty and hard work in his associates and friends.
Hatlo was a lifelong smoker, who once appeared in magazine and newspaper ads for Lucky Strike cigarettes, his favorite brand. He was troubled in his later years by atherosclerosis.
Quotes from others about the person
Bob Greene wrote: "Hatlo's genius was to realize, before there was any such thing as an Internet or Facebook or Twitter, that people in every corner of the country were brimming with seemingly small observations about mundane yet captivating matters, yet lacked a way to tell anyone outside their own circles of friends about it. Hatlo also understood that just about everyone, on some slightly-below-the-surface level, yearned to be celebrated from coast to coast, if only for a day. "
Connections
Hatlo's first wife was Fern Johnson. After her death he married Lois Eleanor Dollard on May 29, 1937. They had one son.
