Harry Grant Dart

{{Short description|American cartoonist and illustrator}}

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Harry Grant Dart (November 3, 1868 – November 15, 1938){{cite book|author=Maurice Horn|title=The World Encyclopedia of Cartoons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=37gzAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Chelsea House|isbn=978-0-7910-5185-6|page=221}}[https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dart_harry_grant.htm Harry Grant Dart (3 November 1868 - 15 November 1938, USA)] was an American cartoonist and illustrator known for his futuristic and often aviation-oriented cartoons and comic strips.

His first jobs were brochures for the National Crayon Company and illustrations for the Boston Herald. His career took off when the New York World sent him to Cuba, where, in the days before news photography became commonplace, he became a sketch artist for important events. He rose to become the art editor for The World.

In 1908, Dart produced his comic strip The Explorigator.[http://lambiek.net/artists/d/dart_harry_grant.htm Harry Grant Dart] at the Lambiek Comiclopedia. Retrieved on July 8, 2008. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317195046/https://www.lambiek.net/artists/d/dart_harry_grant.htm Archived] from the original on March 17, 2015.[https://archive.today/20150307142420/http://toonopedia.com/explorig.htm The Explorigator] at Don Markstein's Toonopedia. Archived from [https://archive.today/20150307142420/http://toonopedia.com/explorig.htm the original] on April 6, 2015. Intended as a rival for Winsor McCay's Little Nemo, The Explorigator concerned the flight of the eponymous airship, headed by a crew of children ages 9–10: Admiral Fudge (who wore a swastika on his hat, years before the symbol became that of the Nazi Party), Detective Rubbersole, Maurice Mizzentop, Nicholas Nohooks, Grenadier Shift, Teddy Typewriter, and Ah Fergetit.Bill Blackbeard, Dale Crain, Steve Vance, 100 Years of Comic Strips, p. 77 The strip ran for 14 weeks in 1908.

Dart went on to become a prolific cartoonist, continuing with Boys Will Be Boys in 1909 and Life and Judge in the 1910s and 1920s.

He died in Laconia, New Hampshire, in 1938.