Show ARTIST CREATES T STARTS OA IN Dl BUTCHER cH HOUSE Ul p 1 x x w i 1 WA s 0 Gk 0 D e 00 1 1 t V Well II I I went into a a meat mar mar- market market ket to get some meat an and they gi mo a I a job Instead That's how v Gene Ahern lr creot Doi ird Ing rd- rd of od the tho famous comic Our Our log Ing House e explains captains his entry Into Inlo the drawing game But It'll bo be hard for tor you to set get the connection unless we 0 go on with tho the balance of the store ston rh r on on back some 12 Scars cars ago meat market wrapping paper came me In large rolls And when Gen Gene wash aSIl t using strips of this paper Iper to wrap pork chops up In III hen he ho n was sketchIng comic things on It 10 0 lit IU ur w v I In And then to bring fiction to fe C on one day a man connected with it a 1 fashion house housa drifted in to Set get et n pound of sausage As ho he took hla 1113 I package ho he noted some dra drawings draIng Ing ot of girl girls on tho the paper Who Vho made these tho the tash man asked Ahern Oh Oh I just did did just for tor the fun of o 0 It replied Gene Oene Well Veil said the tho fashion man mall be bo more fun tun un If you iou ou got paid for It couldn't It So Gene started to work III In a l fashion house Then It shortly de developed that an early training at shifting stage scenery shifting still lingered In Ahern s system So adding this to the tact fact that comic things thinG's and comic original expressions appealed most strongly to A Ahern hern he ha grabl J off ocr a job with Ith the tho NEA SerIce Ser Ice Ino Inc n CK J rs i 1911 i 1 l hat was In ht 1914 an and the tho budding artist drew e eer t er co thin thing from flom layous laroA to one-column one comics Shortly ho produce produced an original idea In III comic strip form Auto form Olto which Otto which I a O KH e Ills his hi at al freak Creak art rt work a chane chance chance- roll Following 0 In this came another faa fal fai failure lure turl Squirrel rood which gave Aherns Ahern's writing ability al an opportunity opportunity to become popular ext In line IIno came romo Aint Natura Wonderful and The Tho Crazy Quilt which h were t two 0 of tho country's first real masterpieces of slang and satire And now all youve you've got to do isto Is isto to 10 combine the tho thought and art pt t tinto into all pf jot those early arly f features to understand why his present feature Our Boarding House Is the lead lead- leader cr er in It its line OUR BO G no G HOUSE This feature Is the Iho last word void 01 d In I original slang writing and cr cle situation stuff And white while the tho millions of readers who ho see sen Our Our Boarding e ever ry d diy day y can appreciate It tho- tho thou 1 thoroughly real touch they cant can't get the folks get out that Geno Gene Aherns Ahern's own of oC For it just Imagine looking back to September 16 1895 and trying to 10 tomake tomake make maJe yourself think that Eug Eugene n i just born and named would eser e Ibe be pushing a more moro drawing pen pell to I tl such big success |