The Great Cosmic Message (Signed) (Numbered Limited Edition Print)
Medium: Numbered Limited edition Lithograph print on Paper
Size: 16" x 12" (410mm x 300mm)
Date: c. 1978
Signature: Signed by artist and numbered lower left
Code: MyersShape
This is a Signed Limited edition print.
A SIGNED and NUMBERED limited edition print from an edition of 1500. Professionally matted ready for framing.
- Artist BiographyRussell Myers (born 9 October 1938; Kansas, USA)
Russell Myers is an American cartoonist whose popular Broom-Hilda appears in American newspapers. The strip, featuring a 1,500-year-old, beer-guzzling, cigar-smoking, man-crazy witch and her friends, was launched in 1970 and is syndicated by the Tribune Media Services. At least 25 collections of the strip appeared in 1971-87.
Born in Pittsburg, Kansas, on 9 October 1938, Myers was raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where his father, a college professor, taught at Tulsa University. He attended Will Rogers High School in Tulsa, where artist Archie Goodwin was a fellow student, and the University of Tulsa. Interested in cartooning from an early age, Myers began illustrating greetings cards for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City in 1960 when his first cartoon submissions were rejected.
"Broom-Hilda" was based on an idea by Elliott Caplin (brother of cartoonist Al Capp), who suggested the characters, which Myers designed. Caplin submitted the strip to the Chicago Tribune Syndicate and it began appearing on 19 April 1970. Myers won the National Cartoonists Society's Humor Comic Strip Award for 1975 for his work on the strip.
Myers married his wife Marina in 1964. Living in Grants Pass, Oregon, the Myers family includes son Stewart and daughter Rosie. His hobbies include reading, collecting old cars and hanging out at the local Saturday night dirt track, where he sponsors a car.
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