View AccountDunning, Marshall Alston (1894 - 1949)
Marshall Alston Dunning original cartoon arwork
At the age of 12 he had a drawing of William Howard Taft published in the San Antonio Express. By the time the First World War broke out, he had moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and worked for the Landon School of Cartooning. He enlisted 7 September 1918, serving first with the 158th Depot, then with the Medical Department. Dunning’s cartoons began appearing in the hospital newspaper Heads Up on 4 January 1919 and ran until the paper ended 7 April 1919. After being honorably discharged from the army on 21 July 1919, Dunning returned to Cleveland, graduating from the Cleveland School of Art in 1921. Over the next 28 years, he worked for the Akron Times and Cleveland Press in Ohio, and the Miami News and Jacksonville Journal in Florida. Dunning travelled west to California, where he worked for the San Diego Tribune. He also worked as an animator, contributing to movie shorts for the Walt Disney Company, including "The Three Little Pigs" (1933), and to "Krazy Kat" shorts at Columbia Pictures. He relocated to Texas in 1938 as cartoonist for the Austin American-Statesman before returning to Florida in 1943. Dunning died of a heart attack in Jacksonville on 29 June 1949.
