page_title: Ed Wheelan
section_title: Comic strips
hierarchical_section_title: Ed Wheelan / Comic strips
caption_attribution_description: English: installment of Ed Wheelan's comic strip Old Man Experience. Here, an actor arranges for his friend to watch a sold-out play from just offstage - but, as Old Man Experience points out, this is a terrible vantage point from which to watch a play. The text in this image should be transcribed and included in the description on this page. See also &#123;&#123;Transcription&#125;&#125;. The Google OCR tool may be of use in transcribing images. català&#160;| Cymraeg&#160;| Deutsch&#160;| English&#160;| español&#160;| македонски&#160;| Nederlands&#160;| português&#160;| svenska&#160;| 中文&#160;| +/−
context_page_description: Edgar Stow Wheelan, who signed his work Ed Wheelan, was an American cartoonist best known for his comic strip Minute Movies, satirizing silent films, and his comic book Fat and Slat, published by DC Comics. He was one of the earliest writer-artists to introduce daily narrative continuity and cinematic techniques to comic strips.
  Born in San Francisco, Wheelan was the son of costume designer Albertine Randall, who drew the 1920s strip The Dumbunnies, and businessman Fairfax Henry Wheelan, a political reformer.
context_section_description: Prepared at the Thacher School and Phillips Exeter Academy, he graduating from Cornell University in 1911, Wheelan found employment at the San Francisco Examiner, moving on to the New York American, where he drew an eight-column comic strip about sports.
  For William Randolph Hearst's King Features, he created the strip Midget Movies in 1918, but he left in 1920 after a dispute with Hearst. To replace Midget Movies, Hearst launched The Thimble Theatre, drawn by Elzie Crisler Segar.
  Wheelan continued to mock movies in his Minute Movies for the George Matthew Adams Service. He drew the two-tiered Minute Movies from the early 1920s until 1935, developing one of the characters into a spin-off strip, Roy McCoy. Near the end of the 1930s, Wheelan teamed with Bill Walsh on Big Top, a circus strip.
caption: Installment of Wheelan's comic strip Old Man Experience.
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