George Hager was a Seattle illustrator and editorial cartoonist who worked for the ''

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'' in the early 20th century. He was the son of another Seattle cartoonist, John Hager. He is known for being the first illustrator to show the Pike Place Market in Seattle. 200px, 1907 cartoon depicting the early Pike Place Market in Seattle. Hager also edited children's page for the Christian Science Monitor He studied art at the University of Washington and the

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in New York, where another Seattle cartoonist,

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taught. He was also a member of the Seattle Cartoonists' Club, and illustrated several of the men in the club's book, ''The Cartoon; A Reference Book of Seattle's Successful Men''.

Comic strip, The Waddles

Waddles was a duck drawn by Hager for the ''Christian Science Monitor'' in the cartoon strip ''The Adventures of the Waddles''. According to the ''Seattle Daily Times'', Waddles was a continuation of his father's duck, associated with the weather man.Seattle Daily Times, November 9, 1935, page2, column 2. ''Strolling around the town''.
/ref> John Hager had to discontinue his illustrating when his eyes went, and his children ran the Waddles comic strip. John's daughter, Mrs. George Dearborne, wrote the rhyming lines to go with the cartoon, while son George Hager did the illustration.
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Artists from Seattle Artists from Indiana American comics artists American editorial cartoonists American caricaturists American illustrators 1885 births Year of death missing {{US-illustrator-stub