Thomas Aloysius Dorgan (29 April 1877–2 Mei 1929), juga dikenal sebagai Tad Dorgan, adalah seorang kartunis Amerika yang menandatangani gambar-gambarnya dengan tulisan Tad. Ia dikenal atas panel kartunnya Indoor Sports dan beberapa kata dan ekspresi yang ia tambahkan pada bahasa.[1]
Referensi
↑"'Tad,' Cartoonist, Dies In His Sleep". The New York Times. May 3, 1929. Thomas A. Dorgan, Famous For His 'Indoor Sports,' Victim of Heart Disease. Was A Shut-In For Years. Worked Cheerfully at Home in Great Neck on Drawings That Amused Countless Thousands. His slangy breeziness won immediate circulation. It was he who first said 'Twenty-three, Skidoo,' and 'Yes, we have no bananas,' 'apple sauce' and 'solid ivory.' Other expressions that are now part of the American vernacular include 'cake-eater,' 'drug-store cowboy,' 'storm and strife,' 'Dumb Dora,' 'dumb-bell,' 'finale hopper,' 'Benny' for hat and 'dogs' for shoes.;
Sumber
McCrory, Amy. "Sport Cartoons in Context: TAD Dorgan and Multi-Genre Cartooning in Early Twentieth-Century Newspapers," American Periodicals: A Journal of History, Criticism, and Bibliography – Volume 18, Number 1, pp.45–68. The Ohio State University Press, 2008.
Zwilling, Leonard. A TAD Lexicon. Etymology and Linguistic Principles: V.3, Rolla MO: G. Cohen, 1993.
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