| Harry Hershfield was a raconteur as well as a cartoonist. He devoted the majority of his nearly 90 years to telling funny stories, both in words and pictures. A professional cartoonist from his teens onward, he drew such early newspaper strips as Desperate Desmond, which began in 1910, and the long lasting, Abie the Agent, first seen in 1914. He told jokes on stage and on the radio, wrote joke books, and served as a toastmaster at innumerable banquets. Hershfield was also one of the few men ever (showing 500 of 3463 characters). |
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