desperate dan lookalike?

jamie · Post by **jamie** » 04 Oct 2006, 10:39

was just looking through animationarchive.org and found a post about an artist called milt gross, who i wasn't aware of.

http://www.animationarchive.org/pics/gross306-big.jpg

what stood out to me was the similarity of his character Pop to our own Desperate Dan, right down to the outfit, moustache, hat. not sure which character came first though.

anyway, just thought it might be of interest. a mild diversion, if you will.

jamie

Peter Gray · Post by **Peter Gray** » 04 Oct 2006, 11:10

I always thought Desperate Dan was partly inspired by Popeye....

Well Superman was inspired by popeye

Steve Bright · Post by **Steve Bright** » 04 Oct 2006, 15:36

The inspiration for the look of Desperate Dan came very close to home for Dan's original artist, the legendary Dudley D Wtakins. It was this man...

[img:134:170]http://www.thatsbraw.co.uk/Biog/Albert%20Barnes.jpg[/img]

Albert Barnes - first editor of The Dandy, who reputedly had a chin like a chest of drawers.

David Simpson · Post by **David Simpson** » 04 Oct 2006, 16:59

There's a Milt Gross biography at http://www.bpib.com/gross.htm, which suggests that That's My Pop appeared in the 'thirties.

Cap Haggis · Post by **Cap Haggis** » 04 Oct 2006, 19:24

Superman was largely influenced, according to his creators (Schulster and Siegel himself ) by Edgar Rice Burroughs' John Carter of Mars and Tarzan - although they also mentioned Zorro, as well as Popeye, as Peter noted. I think Dan was influenced, as Steve suggest, by Albert Barnes (well I read that somewhere as well) .