Eugene Zimmerman

1862-1935

Swiss/American (Basel, Switzerland; Horseheads, New York)

Zimmerman, whose nickname was Zim, was a prolific artist, with more than 40,000 illustrations published in his lifetime. He worked for Puck and Judge magazines and was the founder of the so-called “Grotesque” school of caricature, being the first caricaturist to incorporate exaggerated cartooniness not only in the faces of his subjects, but in the bodies as well. He retired from Judge in 1897 and founded the American Association of Cartoonists and Caricaturists. He was also a writer and teacher. His columns ran in Cartoons magazine during the early years of the century, as did ads for his landmark correspondence course in cartooning.