Biography of Arch Bistow

Arch Bristow (1882-1964) was an iconic cartoonist early in his career with thenationally published Zimmie cartoon which ran from 1905-24; at its peak it was in152 newspapers with 14 million readers in the United States and Canada and a veryfamous writer regionally with his Hay Rake Magazine which began in 1920. He wasalso the author of numerous columns in regional newspapers throughout his lifemany running simultaneously in several newspapers. He also had four books: twowith cartoons Jolly Jokers in the Town of Johns in 1907 and Zimmie's SummerBook in 1908 one of verses Hay Ray Verses in 1921 and one of prose Old TimeTales of Warren County in 1932. However he is best remembered for the Hay RakeMagazine of which he published over 40 issues of 64 pages each where he didalmost all the illustrations stories and editing. In this book you will get abiography of Arch himself and a sample of each of his works.The artwork for the covers was done by his friend Don Wharton of Spring Creek PA.