1910 Tokio Cigarette Comic Pinback With Bud Fisher Art "How Fido Has Changed"

Description

This button produced by Tokio cigarettes, a very popular brand at the beginning of the 1900's. These were produced around 1910, and came free with the cigarettes. The buttons are lithographed images with a celluloid cover. Most have the paper insert from the particular brands of cigarette inside the pin's back. These buttons feature the art of the popular newspapers cartoonists at the dawning of the America's comics page. The button's artist's are the icons who's innovations lead the way to the comics we know today. This lot features the artwork of Bud Fisher.
Harry C. "Bud" Fisher (1885-1954) created the first successful daily comic strip in the U.S. - "Mutt and Jeff." After growing up in Chicago, he moved to California and became a journalist and sketch artist for the sports department of the San Francisco Chronicle. In 1907, he created Mr. A. Mutt as a comic strip character and added Jeff the following March. Soon these two were highly popular with newspaper readers. Fisher was fortunate to hold the copyright to Mutt and Jeff and was able to expand its popularity into short comic films (over 300 produced), comic books, and other such areas. The strip was continued after his death by Al Smith, who had been producing it under Fisher's supervision since 1932. Smith stopped work on the strip after 48 years (1980) and another artist (George Breisacher) took over for the last two years before it was finally ended.
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