Armundo Dreisbach Condo (September 19, 1872 in Freeport, Illinois – 24 August 1956 in Albany, California)News of Yore: A.D. Condo's Aim Is True at Stripper's Guide, by Allan Holtz; published March 18, 2012; retrieved March 2, 2013 was an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the comic strip The Outbursts of Everett True.
History Condo first joined the newspaper industry in the 1880s, working as a printer's devil. In 1896, the Toledo News hired him as an editorial cartoonist as a direct response to the William Jennings Bryan presidential campaign.CONDO’S REFORMER ‘EVERETT TRUE’ HAS NOW SWATTED 6,000 PESTS, from the Montana Daily Independent; by A.H. Frederick; published November 18, 1923; archived at Yesterday's Papers He subsequently worked for the Cleveland Press,Everett True: A.D. Condo, Artist Who Created Him In 1902, from the New Orleans States; published 10/2/1917; archived at Stripper's Guide (March 18, 2012); retrieved March 2, 2013 and was then contracted to the Press's owner, the Newspaper Enterprise Association, where he created The Outbursts of Everett True.
Other works Condo's other works included "Diana Dillpickles", "Osgar und Adolf" (1911-1915, ethnic humor), and "Mr. Skygack, from Mars" (1907-1912, often described as the first science fiction comic strip).Mr. Skygak, From Mars, at the Filson Historical Society, by Michael Veach; published September 28, 2010; retrieved March 2, 2013
The last comic strip to feature Condo's byline was published in 1946;A. D. Condo (1872-1956), by John Adcock, at Yesterday's Papers; published 16 May 2009; retrieved 2 March 2013 however, a one-off Everett True strip was published in the Madison Capital Times in 1948 to illustrate a story about August Derleth tracking down Condo in a California nursing home. Derleth was compiling 300 of his favorite Everett True cartoons for publication in a book which was to feature more new strips by Condo. In 1953, Derleth told the Capital Times that he was still working on the book and remained in contact with Condo, whose "fingers no longer respond so well" but still wanted to draw one last strip showing True confronting Senator Joseph McCarthy.Entwistle, Harold E. "'Everett True' May Take Up Cudgel Against 'Smearers'", The Capital Times, September 5, 1953, page 2. Derleth's book was never published.
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