17 Facts About Jimmy Swinnerton

James Guilford Swinnerton was an American cartoonist and a landscape painter of the Southwest deserts.

Jimmy Swinnerton was known as Jimmy to some and Swinny to others.

Jimmy Swinnerton signed some of his early cartoons Swin, and on one ephemeral comic strip he used Guilford as his signature.

Jimmy Swinnerton's birthplace is a matter of dispute, with one gallery-owner giving Eureka, California, and another writing,.

Jimmy Swinnerton's listed date of birth November 13,1875 was, according to Swinnerton himself, without dispute.

Swinnerton, in his early teens Jimmy provided cartoon advertisements in the windows od local businesses.

Jimmy Swinnerton was 14 when he entered the San Francisco School of Design, where the painter Emil Carlsen was one of his instructors.

Jimmy Swinnerton was still a teenager when he became a staff cartoonist for Hearst's San Francisco Examiner in 1892.

Jimmy Swinnerton drew a few more Little Bears for the paper, followed by some strips with a Noah's Ark setting, referred to as Mount Ararat.

Jimmy Swinnerton hit upon a durable theme with a series of strips featuring anthropomorphic tigers, which soon took the title Mr Jack.

Meanwhile, Swinnerton continued to fill his Sunday space with a new character, a scatterbrained boy named Jimmy.

Jimmy Swinnerton drew Jimmy in various formats, eventually under the title Little Jimmy, until 1958.

Jimmy Swinnerton alternated between residences in Arizona and California for most of his life.

Jimmy Swinnerton joined the Bohemian Club, rose through the ranks, and was elected president in 1929.

Jimmy Swinnerton was a member of the California Art Club and the Academy of Western Painters.

Jimmy Swinnerton painted desert scenes as a fine artist from about 1920 to 1965.

Jimmy Swinnerton died in Palm Springs, California, at the age of 98.