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Harold Hering Knerr (September 4, 1882 – July 8, 1949) was an American comic strip creator, who signed his work H. H. Knerr. He was best known as the writer-artist of ''The Katzenjammer Kids'' for 35 years. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Harold Knerr's father was Calvin B. Knerr, a German physician who had migrated to the United States. His mother was Melitta Hering, daughter of Constantine Hering, a pioneer of homeopathy. After attending the Episcopal Academy, he studied for two years at the Philadelphia College of Art and then became a newspaper illustrator. He recalled, "My first newspaper work was drawing pictures of gravestones atop the oldest graves in a local cemetery for ''The Philadelphia Record''. These were paid for at the fee of three dollars each."〔(Lowe, James R. "H.H. Knerr" )〕 ==Comic strips== According to Knerr authority James Lowe, Knerr was extremely prolific, producing more than 1,500 Sunday comic pages between 1901 and 1914 for a half-dozen continuing features in three different Philadelphia newspapers.〔(Goulart, Ron. ''The Funnies: 100 Years of American Comic Strips''. Adams, 1995. )〕 He created his first comic strip, ''Zoo-Illogical Snapshots'', for the ''Public Ledger''. In 1899, when he was 18, he started working for the ''Philadelphia Inquirer''. In 1901, he drew the Sunday strip, ''Willie's Revenge'', followed by a number of comic strips, including the ''Mr. Jack''-inspired ''Mr. George and His Wife'' (1904–14). In 1906, he took over the strip ''Scary William'' and continued it until 1914. From June 15, 1913 to November 15, 1914, he drew ''The Irresistible Rag''. (The cartoonist Joe Doyle drew both ''Scary William'' and ''The Irresistible Rag'' after Knerr left these strips.) From 1903 to 1914, he drew ''The Fineheimer Twins'', an imitation of ''The Katzenjammer Kids'', which made it obvious he was the ideal artist to replace Rudolph Dirks on ''The Katzenjammer Kids''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harold Knerr」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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