George Hager

{{short description|American cartoonist}}

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| name = George Hager

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| caption = Caricature of Hager, done by one of the members of the Seattle Cartoonists' Club for the club's 1911 book about Seattleites

| birth_name = Luther George Hager

| birth_date =March 1885

| birth_place =Indiana, U.S.

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| spouse = Beatrice Holbrook Dearborn[http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/newspapers/doc/v2:127D718D1E33F961%40GBNEWS-12894EB4F2BAC464%40-12822CD883A5B11F%40/ Seattle Daily Times, January 1, 1910, page 1. "Rich young woman will wed artist: Beatrice Holbrook Dearborn, Daughter of Seattle Pioneer, to be Married to Luther George Hager Tonight".]

| children = 1

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| field = Drawing

| training = Arts Student League, New York and University of Washington, Seattle

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| works = The Adventures of the Waddles

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George Hager was an American illustrator and editorial cartoonist who worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the early 20th century.{{Citation

|last=McCormick

|first=Mike

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|title=Forecaster Famous in Seattle

|newspaper=Terra Haute Tribune Star, section B

|pages=7

|date=January 7, 1996

|url=http://visions.indstate.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/vcpl&CISOPTR=7554&CISOBOX=1&REC=2#metajump

|accessdate=2012-02-20

}}{{dead link|date=January 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} He was the son of another Seattle cartoonist, John Hager. He is known for being the first illustrator to show the Pike Place Market in Seattle.

image:Pike Place Market - first day P-I cartoon.jpg

Hager also edited children's page for the Christian Science Monitor He studied art at the University of Washington and the Arts Student League in New York, where another Seattle cartoonist, William Charles McNulty taught. He was also a member of the Seattle Cartoonists' Club, and illustrated several of the men in the club's book, The Cartoon; A Reference Book of Seattle's Successful Men.{{cite book |title=The Cartoon; A Reference Book of Seattle's Successful Men |last=Calvert|first=Frank|url=https://archive.org/stream/cartoonreference00calv#page/n5/mode/2up|year=1911|publisher=The Press of Trustee Printing Company |location=Seattle, Washington|isbn= |pages=}}