Frederick
Opper,
the son of immigrants from Austria,
was born in 1857. He first began contributing drawings to newspapers
when he was fourteen years old. After spending eighteen years with
Puck magazine, where he was influenced
by the work of Joseph Keppler, Opper
joined the New York Evening Journal,
a newspaper owned by William Randolph Hearst.
Opper's
cartoons in the New
York Evening Journal often featured a little man labelled
as the Common People. Although Opper worked for William
Randolph Hearst for over thirty years (1899-1932), he also contributed
drawings to other journals such as The Arena
and the New York American. Frederick
Opper died in 1937.
Frederick Opper, Joseph
Pulitzer (c. 1900)
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