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4 unusual facts about Raoul Barré


Dick Huemer

While as an artist-illustrator living in The Bronx, New York, Huemer first began his career in animation at the Raoul Barré cartoon studio in 1916.

Raoul Barré

Another man who had stood up to Hearst was Bud Fisher, who had the courts uphold his copyright ownership to his Mutt and Jeff comic strip, which had been printed by Hearst newspapers for nine years.

In 1912, Barré saw an animated film that inspired him to go into the industry (perhaps Winsor McCay's "How a Mosquito Operates").

Barré spent the last few years of his life drawing oil paintings and political cartoons (helping to make his son-in-law Gaspard Fauteux Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec) while starting his own art school.



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