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Al Posen (Alvah Posen) was born on 2 October, 1894 in New York City, New York, is an American cartoonist, 1894-1960. Discover Al Posen's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

Popular As Alvah Posen
Occupation Cartoonist
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 2 October, 1895
Birthday 2 October
Birthplace New York City, New York
Date of death 10 June, 1960
Died Place N/A
Nationality United States

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1506

Posen was friends with Smokey Stover cartoonist Bill Holman, and the famed nonsense Phrase "1506 nix nix" seen in Smokey Stover was an inside joke between the two cartoonists.

The number 1506 was a reference to a hotel room where Posen stayed.

Posen was a bachelor who liked to ski at Lake Placid, New York and vacation at a ranch in Wyoming.

1894

Alvah Posen (October 2, 1894 - June 10, 1960) was an American cartoonist on several comic strips, but he is best known for his 1933-1960 comic strip Sweeney & Son and as co-producer of the now-lost Marx Brothers film, Humor Risk (1921).

Born in New York City, Posen served in the Army during World War I and worked for a film advertising agency when the war ended.

He then travelled in the Orient as a member of a geological and mining expedition, spending a year in Siam and Yunan.

1922

In 1922, with no formal training in art, Posen created the rhyming daily comic strip, Them Days Are Gone Forever (aka Them Days Is Gone Forever).

1925

Distributed by United Features Syndicate, it was published in 1000 newspapers within a year, and continued until April 4, 1925.

1926

On April 19, 1926, Posen began another daily strip called Jinglet, which used several rhymed words in a four-panel gag.

1927

(For example: "Pals / Gals / Luck / Stuck".) This ran until March 19, 1927.

1933

Posen followed it with another rhyming Sunday strip, the short-lived Ella and Her Fella, from May 21 to September 30, 1933.

This also featured a revival of Jinglet as the topper.

Sweeney & Son debuted as a Sunday page on October 1, 1933, replacing Ella and Her Fella.

Jinglet continued to be the topper strip from 1933 to 1950.

1949

In 1949, Posen created a new daily strip, Rhymin' Time, which ran from January 17, 1949 to 1950.

Rhymin' Time was a four-panel strip with lyrics set to "Turkey in the Straw'", such as:

1950

From 1950 to 1953, the daily strip Rhymin' Time became the Sunday topper for Sweeney & Son, displacing Jinglet.

1952

Posen, Gus Edson, Bob Montana and other cartoonists participated in a USO cartoonists tour in October 1952.

1953

Jinglet returned in 1953, and ran as the Sunday topper for the rest of the run, ending in 1960.

Posen also adapted his rhyming formats into comic strip advertisements for Bristol-Myers and companies.

As a National Cartoonists Society member, he originated the idea of cartoonist shows for American servicemen and became the NCS Director of Overseas Shows.

1956

Posen received the National Cartoonists Society's Silver T-Square Award in 1956.

1960

Sweeney & Son continued for more than 25 years, until August 21, 1960.