Background
Edson, Gus was born on September 20, 1901 in Cincinnati. Son of Max and Emma Jeannette (Simon) Edson.
Edson, Gus was born on September 20, 1901 in Cincinnati. Son of Max and Emma Jeannette (Simon) Edson.
Educated Pratt Institute, Art Students League, New New York
Began as free lance cartoonist, 1920. Sports cartoonist New York Evening Graphic, 1925-1928, Paul Block Chain of Newspapers, 1928-1929, New York Evening Post, 1929-1930. Feature cartoonist King Feature Syndicate of New York, 1930-1931.
Sports cartoonist New York Daily News, 1931-1935.
Created Sunday comic Streaky, 1933 and authored it 1933-1935. Authored The Gumps for Chicago Tribune and New York News, since 1935.
Creator-author comic strip Dondi, since 1955. Author, co-producer motion picture Dondi.
Author of story and screenplay Dondi Goes Native in Brooklyn.
Writer motion picture Carnival Kid. Consultant, Treasury Department. Member President's People-to-People Committee Chairman cartoonists’ committee American Theatre Wing.
Served in the United States Army, 1918. Theatre Wing.; Member Society Illustrators, National Cartoonists Society (governor), Society Silurians, Artists and Writers Association, Writers Guild American, Banshee Screen Writers Guild West.
Married Gladys Cedar, February 4, 1922. Children: David Aubrey, Russell Leon, Patricia Florence.