Edgar Henry Banger (27 February 1897 – 1968),
also known as Harry Banger, was a
cartoon
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illustrator
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most proficient during the 1930s. His colourful characters were included in
comic
a Media (communication), medium used to express ideas with images, often combined with text or other visual information. It typically the form of a sequence of Panel (comics), panels of images. Textual devices such as speech balloons, Glo ...
s such as ''
Rattler
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'', ''
Dazzler'', ''Slick Fun, Cute fun,'' ''Rocket'' and ''Bouncer''. Also producing a rare seen Koko the Pup in some publications.
Not only did he operate from Wood Street Norwich prior to this during the war he worked from his studio in his home on Grapes hill, this house no longer exists.
Early life
He was the son of a Norfolk
photographer
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Duties and types of photographe ...
, also called Edgar Henry Banger.
Career
Banger's most famous was Koko the Pup for
DC Thomson
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's ''Magic'', and also Dully Duckling which appeared in Sunny Stories through late 40s and into the 50s.
His artwork was also well recognised through
Norfolk
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, being a regular
cartoonist
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for the local papers such as ''The
Eastern Daily Press
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Founded in 1870 as a broadsheet called the ''Eastern Counties Daily ...
'' and the ''Evening News''. He was a
Norwich City Football Club
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and contributed to their paper ''The Pink Un'', in which a lot of his
tongue in cheek
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History
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cartoons were mostly football based. He was famous for the characters Canary and Dumpling featuring debonair characters with a cartoon Canary or Dumpling head in the Norwich city Colours. A lot of his cartoons were
monogram
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med HB, Bang, or Harry Banger.
Where he worked
Banger mostly worked from his small studio room in the back of the terrace house that he lived in at Wood Street, Norwich, with his wife Maud Banger, daughter Yvonne, and sons Ray and Neville.
Death
Banger died in 1968 at the age of 71.
References
External links
Brief Biography
British comic strip cartoonists
1968 deaths
1897 births
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