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The Herman comic strip first
appeared in the 1970's in newspapers.
The
1st Treasury of Herman contains one-panel comic stripa
that focuses on one-line zingers about the stupid things humans do or
questions asked that just make you scratch your head and think. Most of
the people in this strip are overweight and unattractive and Jim never
claimed that he was an artist. Most of the comic strips revolve around
things that just make you go...huh?
The book is divided up into 4
chapters. Jim Unger gives a brief (couple of pages) description of the
creative process at the beginning of each chapter. He also talks about
how he creates this comic strip with insight into Jim himself...and
Herman, of course.
Jim Unger was born in
London, U.K. in 1940. He came to Canada as a young man and started his
cartooning career at the Mississauga Times. He eventually moved to
Ottawa where he began his internationally syndicated cartoon panel
Herman. Herman became very popular in
the late-1970s, and continued into the early 1990s, until Jim Unger
retired from drawing the famous comic strip. It was seen daily in
hundred of newspapers and enjoyed by millions.
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