{"id":254,"date":"2007-07-09T17:28:59","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T15:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/?p=254"},"modified":"2007-07-09T17:28:59","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T15:28:59","slug":"clare-briggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/clare-briggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Briggs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For me, Briggs should be remembered as the founder (along with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_T._McCutcheon\" title=\"John T. McCutcheon\">John T. McCutcheon<\/a>) of the &#8220;Chicago school of cartooning&#8221; or perhaps &#8220;the mid-western school of cartooning.&#8221; With his low-key humor, his fidelity to ordinary life, his feel for quiet moments, Briggs created a style of cartooning that was very different from the hurly-burly vaudeville vulgarity of the New York school (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rudolph_Dirks\" title=\"Dirks\">Dirks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.illustration-house.com\/bios\/outcault_bio.html\" title=\"Outcault\">Outcault<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/o\/opper.htm\" title=\"Opper\">Opper<\/a>). Briggs&#8217;s approach influenced not only panel cartoonists like <a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/w\/williams_jr.htm\" title=\"J.R. Williams\">J.R. Williams<\/a> but also the whole <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em> stable of newspaper strips: <a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/s\/smith_sidney.htm\" title=\"Sidney Smith\">Sidney Smith<\/a>, Frank King, Harold Gray, and even <a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/g\/gould.htm\" title=\"Chester Gould\">Chester Gould<\/a>. They all owed a debt to Briggs. Thanks to Briggs, mid-century newspaper cartooning became a reflection of middle America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreporter.com\/index.php\/cr_sunday_interview_jeet_heer\/\">Jeet Heer, interview\u00c3\u00a9 par Tom Spurgeon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;For me, Briggs should be remembered as the founder (along with John T. McCutcheon) of the &#8220;Chicago school of cartooning&#8221; or perhaps &#8220;the mid-western school of cartooning.&#8221; With his low-key humor, his fidelity to ordinary life, his feel for quiet moments, Briggs created a style of cartooning that was very different from the hurly-burly vaudeville [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,9,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hupomnemata.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}