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Walter Berndt (November 22, 1899,〔"United States Social Security Death Index," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/JKL7-22R : accessed 12 Mar 2013), Walter Berndt, August 1979.〕 Brooklyn, New York - August 15, 1979, Port Jefferson, New York) was a cartoonist known for his long-run comic strip, ''Smitty'', which he drew for 50 years. Bernt's job as an office boy at the ''New York Journal'' put him in contact with leading cartoonists, as he recalled, "When I was 16, I worked as office boy for Tad, Herriman, Hershfield, Tom McNamara, also Hoban, McCay, Gross, T. E. Powers, C. D. Batchelor, Sterrett and Segar. Not much money but a million dollars worth of experience! Stayed with the ''New York Journal'' for five years, sweeping floors, running errands, drawing strips, sport cartoons and what have you. Then one year with ''World Telegram''. From there to the ''Daily News'' in 1922 where Smitty and Herby work for me! Golf used to be my love, but it is now taboo. So now it's a little swimmin' in my pool."〔(NCS Awards: Walter Berndt )〕 ==Fishing for ideas== Ed Black wrote about the method E. C. Segar and Berndt used to generate cartoon ideas: :Segar did another strip in the 1920s, but not on his own volition. One of his friends at the New York Journal was Walter Berndt who would in 1922 create the daily and Sunday ''Smitty'' strip for the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate (under the aegis of the legendary Capt. Joseph Patterson), a feature destined to run for years. Both liked fishing. Berndt was doing a two-column strip called ''Then the Fun Began'', inherited from Milt Gross. Both Segar and Berndt would finish their work by noon then steal away to an old pier on the Jersey side and spend the afternoon fishing and thinking up ideas. "We'd finish the day with a bunch of fish and about 15 or 20 ideas each," Berndt once said.〔(Black, Ed. "The Little Man and the One-eyed Sailor," ''Gylph'' )〕 ''Then the Fun Began'' was appearing as early as March 3, 1919. When Berndt left that strip on October 13, 1921, it was taken over by Fred Faber, who continued it until 1928. 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「Walter Berndt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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