Early Life

Thomas Carl Anderson was a cartoonist and comic artist born in Madison. He moved with his family to Des Moines, Iowa, where he worked in his father's planing mill. After an education in common schools and the School of Industrial Arts in Philadelphia, he was employed as staff artist on the Philadelphia Times in the early 1890's.

Career and Impact

Then Anderson went to New York City to draw cartoons and comic sketches for the World and Journal, and soon began extensive freelance work. His sketches have been published in Judge, Life, Puck, McClure's syndicate, and the Saturday Evening Post. In 1932 he created the character named "Henry," which ran many years as a King Features comic strip.

He moved back to Madison in 1930 and maintained a studio there until his death. Severe arthritis caused him to turn his famous comic strip, "Henry" over to an understudy two years before his death. 

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