Circus Solly

 

George O. Frink’ (also referred to as “Charles Frink”) was an early 20th century American newspaper cartoonist, best-known as the creator of ‘Circus Solly’ and its follow-up ‘Slim Jim and the Force’. Frink was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in either 1872 or June 1874. By the early 1900s, he was working as a cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News. He applied a sketchy style with influences from John T. McCutcheon, Joe Donahey, Frederick Burr Opper and early George Herriman.

Between 1901 and 1911, Frink produced a great many short-lived and irregularly appearing features for the News. These included ‘The Absent-Minded Man’ (1901-1902), ‘Ambitious Activity: The Amateur Detective’ (1901-1902), ‘Motion Pictures’ (December 1901), ‘Pictures of Energy’ (December 1901), ‘Why Popkins Is A Bachelor’ (1902), ‘Experiences’ (1902), ‘Have You Ever Noticed?’ (1902), ‘Scientific Experiments’ (1902), ‘Prediction Habit’ (1902), ‘Uncle Bellamy’ (1902-1903), ‘Mister Grouch’ (1903), ‘Mister Makinbrakes’ (April 1905), ‘Tommy Town’ (1905), ‘Ratty and Algy’ (1905), ‘The Goat Family’ (1905, continuation of Roy W. Taylor’s ‘The Goats’), ‘The Red Creek School’ (1906), ‘Jan The Joker’ (1906), ‘Going To College’ (1906), ‘Serving The Papers’ (1906), ‘Terrible Tommy’ (1906), ‘The Awful Bore’ (1906-1908, 1911-1912), ‘Buddy and Banty’ (1906-1908), ‘Professor Umpah and his Horn’ (1906-1908), ‘The Village Doc’ (1907-1909), ‘Fearless Finglebaum’ (1908), ‘Teaching Royalty’ (1908), ‘The Optimist’ (1908), ‘Getting Down Early’ (1908-1909), ‘Sammy Spankem’ (1908-1913), ‘His Frightful Nerve’ (1909-1910), ‘Official Agonies’ (1909-1910), ‘The Town Blowhard’ (1909-1912), ‘The Detective At Home’ (1910-1911) and ‘The Stubborn Man’ (1910).

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Charles Frink

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