Wayback Whensday: H. M. Wilder
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In the most recent entry of his Inkslingers series Rob Stolzer appreciates the talent of H. M. Wilder.
Wilder was a wonderful figurative artist, much on the order of his contemporaries A.B. Frost and T.S. Sullivant. All three of the cartoonist-illustrators had the ability to capture a figure’s movement at the apex of an action.
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Frost and Wilder in particular, imbued a sense of slapstick in their figure movement, due in large part to that figural exaggeration in the midst of action.
H.M. Wilder contributed to many of the top publications of the day. He produced work for Harper’s Weekly for many years, and the magazine sent Wilder to the Paris Exposition in 1900. He was also a frequent contributor to Life, Puck and Judge, among other publications.
Through a series of original art Stolzer extols “Wilder’s wonderful use of exaggerated figural movement, terrific textures and just beautiful ink-slinging.”
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