Bert Green cartoons

1920-1948

Cartoonist, animator and writer Bert Green (nee Herbert), was born in England on Jan. 28, 1885. He came with his family to the United States as a young child, later studying art at Pratt Institute and Chase Art School. After working as a cartoonist for several newspapers, including The New York herald, The world, The New York American, The New York journal, and The Atlanta Georgian for ten years, in 1915 Green began to draw cartoons for motion pictures. He later turned to creating comic strips for newspapers and comic stories with illustrations, most notably, The love letters of an interior decorator, fictitious letters from a bootlegger to his fiancee (later published as a book), for Liberty magazine. During World War II, he served in the Navy, creating educational cartoons to explain complicated equipment. Green was married to Catherine Porter and had a son, Robert; after his first wife's death, he later married Evelyn Betts. He died Oct. 5, 1948 at the Bronx Veterans Administration Hospital after an extended illness. Original cartoons, comic strips, and drawings, mostly black and white, by Bert Green. Some of the pieces, such as Diana's diary, The Doyle Family and The love letters of an interior decorator (also published in book form by Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1929), were published in Liberty magazine during the 1920s and early 1930s. Also included are 2 sheets of cartoon panels for Kids is kids, possibly published in Humdinger (1947), as well as a 1941 comic strip of Susie, "from the Liberty serial of the same name." Among the several color drawings included are Characters for Bert Green's animated movie page (1945), with directions for making the panels into an animation flip book, and a book jacket design for an unpublished book The love letters of Private Mc Swivel (approximately 1948). It is unclear if Green's miscellaneous drawings, comic strips, etc. found in the collection were ever published.