Cecil Jensen
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Cecil Jensen was an American editorial cartoonist
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Born in Ogden, Utah
, Jensen studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. After moving to California, Jensen worked at the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News, eventually as editorial cartoonist.
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publisher Colonel McCormick
as "Colonel McCosmic". In 1946, he started the comic strip
Syncopating Sue, and he also drew Elmo and Debbie. In 1949, the Register and Tribune Syndicate renamed the strip Little Debbie, shifting focus from character Elmo to his little sister Debbie. Little Debbie became its more popular title, and it ran until 1961. Editor & Publisher
noted in 1949:
Editorial cartoonist
An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary....
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Born in Ogden, Utah
Ogden, Utah
Ogden is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States. Ogden serves as the county seat of Weber County. The population was 82,825 according to the 2010 Census. The city served as a major railway hub through much of its history, and still handles a great deal of freight rail traffic which makes it a...
, Jensen studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. After moving to California, Jensen worked at the Los Angeles Illustrated Daily News, eventually as editorial cartoonist.
Editorial cartoons
In 1928, Jensen returned to Chicago, where he was the editorial cartoonist at the Chicago Daily NewsChicago Daily News
The Chicago Daily News was an afternoon daily newspaper published between 1876 and 1978 in Chicago, Illinois.-History:The Daily News was founded by Melville E. Stone, Percy Meggy, and William Dougherty in 1875 and began publishing early the next year...
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Comic strips
During World War II, Jensen caricatured Chicago TribuneChicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
publisher Colonel McCormick
Robert R. McCormick
Robert Rutherford "Colonel" McCormick was a member of the McCormick family of Chicago who became owner and publisher of the Chicago Tribune newspaper...
as "Colonel McCosmic". In 1946, he started the comic strip
Comic strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions....
Syncopating Sue, and he also drew Elmo and Debbie. In 1949, the Register and Tribune Syndicate renamed the strip Little Debbie, shifting focus from character Elmo to his little sister Debbie. Little Debbie became its more popular title, and it ran until 1961. Editor & Publisher
Editor & Publisher
Editor & Publisher is a monthly magazine covering the North American newspaper industry. It is based in New York City. E&P calls itself "America's Oldest Journal Covering the Newspaper Industry" and describes itself on its website as "the authoritative journal covering all aspects of the North...
noted in 1949:
- Jensen operates from a studio in the Chicago Daily News, for whom he did editorial cartoons since 1928 before beginning the comic strip. Publisher John Knight of the News was persuaded to let him go to comic strip creation only on the promise that he would continue with one editorial cartoon, weekly.