Will B. Johnstone
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| Born | William Breuninger Johnstone March 13, 1881 |
| Died | February 4, 1944 (aged 62) West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. |
| Occupations | Cartoonist; Lyricist; Librettist; Scenarist |
William Breuninger Johnstone (13 March 1881 – 4 February 1944) was an American writer, cartoonist, and lyricist.
His writing credits include the Marx Brothers's Broadway revue I'll Say She Is and, with S.J. Perelman, their first two Hollywood films, Monkey Business and Horse Feathers. He also wrote several popular songs, including a version of "How Dry I Am", a part of which plagiarizes Rudyard Kipling's "Mandalay."
He created the cartoon character of 'The Tax Payer' wearing only a barrel held up by suspenders. It was a regular feature in the New York World-Telegram.[1] Johnstone also created the comic strip You Know Me Al[2] (distributed by the Bell Syndicate).
References
- ↑ Popik, Barry (February 9, 2006). "Tax Payer (Will B. Johnstone cartoon character)". The Big Apple. Retrieved July 20, 2010.
- ↑ Johnstone entry, Lambiek's Comiclopedia. Accessed Nov. 16, 2018.
Further reading
Books with contributions by Johnstone
- Denison, Thomas Stewart (1904). Pomes Ov The Peepul Illustrations: Will B Johnstone. Chicago: T.S.Denison.
- Johnstone, Will B (1926). Take It From Me! (Novelization of Johnstone, Will R. Anderson, Harvey F. Thew play/film). New York City: Jacobsen- Hodgkinson-Corporation.
- McCutcheon, John T. (1940). Saga of a Hoosier Boy: A Collection of Pictorial Tributes by the Contemporaries of John T. McCutcheon. Illustrations: Fontaine Fox, H. D. Webster, D. R. Fitzpatrick, St. Louis Post Dispatch James Montgomery Flagg, Milton Caniff, Joseph Parrish, Carey Orr, John Cassel, George McManus, Charles Kuhn, Harold Gray, Clifford Berryman, Carl Anderson, Rube Goldberg, Rollin Kirby, Dorman H. Smith, Frank King, Frank Willard, Jacob Burck, Edmund W. Gale, Edmund Duffy, Zack Mosley, Gus Edison, Jimmy Murphy, Burt Thomas, Rudolph Dirks, Vaughn Shoemaker, Nelson Harding, Jay N., Ding) Darling, William F. Heitman, Chester Gould, Sol Hess, Charles G. Werner, Walter Berndt, Carl Somdal, James H. Donahey, Cy Hungerford, Harold Talburt, Carl Ed, Hal Coffman, Paul Battenfield, Martin Banner, Will B. Johnstone, Karl Kae Knecht. Chicago: Indiana Society of Chicago.
- Perelman, Sidney J. (1973). The Four Marx Brothers in Monkey Business and Duck Soup (scripts by Perelman, Johnstone, Harry Ruby, Bert Kalmar) . New York City: Simon & Schuster.
- Lardner, Ring (1979). Ring Lardner's You Know Me Al: The Comic Strip Adventures of Jack Keefe.Introduction Al Capp Illustrations: Will B Johnstone and Dick Dorgan. New York City: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.