Louis Biedermann's pictorial forecast of New York City in the year 1999 (The New York World, 30 December 1900). A beautiful Biedermann Circulation magazine cover from September 1926, 'The Magic Carpet of the Comics', depicts several famous newspaper comic characters together on a flying magazine, hovering over the city. From 1921 on, circulation was published on an irregular basis, in print runs of 5,000 copies or less. His own work appeared in the King Features publication Circulation, which called itself a "magazine for newspaper-makers". Biedermann made similar futuristic drawings and science fiction Doomsday scenarios for Science and Invention magazine.īiedermann also worked for the King Features Syndicate, starting out as a staff assistant filling in when cartoonists went on vacation, lettering word balloons and inking in unfinished comic strips by various King Features cartoonists. In 1928, Biedermann also illustrated an article speculating what would happen if the moon suddenly broke up and crashed into Earth. On 29 April 1906, just a week after an earthquake devastated San Francisco, Biedermann illustrated an article about what would happen if an earthquake hit New York. For example, on 30 December 1900, Biedermann drew a two-page "pictorial forecast" of New York City in the year 1999. Especially for speculative topics, worlds of the future depicted from the words of newspaper stories captured the public imagination. Around the beginning of the 20th century, he started illustrating for Joseph Pulitzer's The New York World, a newspaper with one of the largest circulations in the United States at the time. In an era before the use of photography became common, illustrators like Biedermann played an important role in providing visual material for written articles.
The success of this book led to an annual commission by King Features Syndicate to illustrate calendars with the complete roster of the company's comic strip characters.Ĭover illustration for The New York World's supplement The Subway (2 October 1910). Together with writer Jack Lait, Louis Biedermann was the co-creator of the book 'All The Funny Folks' (1926), in which he made sophisticated crossover drawings featuring dozens of famous comic characters by other cartoonists.
Even though he never drew a comic strip of his own, Biedermann sometimes made sequential illustrations. Biedermann was a master of drawing crowd scenes and views from a bird's eye perspective. His drawings livened up articles, covers and calendars. Biedermann also worked for other publications, including the magazine Science and Invention. Louis Biedermann, an early 20th-century American illustrator, is mainly known for his work for the newspaper The New York World and its short-lived magazine, Circulation. Louis Biedermann artwork from 'All The Funny Folks' (1926).
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