Nipper

Nipper (1884–1895) was a dog who served as the model for a painting titled His Master's Voice. This image was the basis for the dog-and-gramophone logo used by several audio recording and associated brands: Victor Talking Machine Company, Gramophone Company, Berliner Gramophone, His Master's Voice, HMV, EMI, RCA, RCA Victor, Victrola, Electrola, Bluebird, Zonophone, JVC and Deutsche Grammophon.

Biography

Nipper was born in 1884 in Bristol, England, and died in September 1895. He was a mixed-breed dog and probably part Jack Russell Terrier, although some sources suggest that he was a Smooth Fox Terrier, or "part Bull Terrier". He was named Nipper because he would bite the backs of visitors' legs.

Nipper originally lived with his owner, Mark Henry Barraud, in the Prince's Theatre where Barraud was a scenery designer. When Barraud died in 1887, his brothers Philip and Francis took care of the dog. Nipper himself died of natural causes in 1895 and was buried in Kingston upon Thames in Clarence Street, in a small park surrounded by magnolia trees. As time progressed the area was built upon, and a branch of Lloyds Bank now occupies the site. On the wall of the bank, just inside the entrance, a brass plaque commemorates the terrier that lies beneath the building.

Doug Wright (cartoonist)

Douglas Austin Wright (August 11, 1917 – January 3, 1983) was a Canadian cartoonist, best known for his weekly comic strip Doug Wright's Family (1949–1980; also known as Nipper) . The Doug Wright Awards are named after him to honour excellence in Canadian cartooning.

Biography

After emigrating to Canada in 1938, Wright worked as an illustrator at an insurance company before serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War Two. It was here that his cartoons of fellow servicemen first drew the eye of a magazine editor. After freelancing in Montreal for a few years after the war, Wright took over Juniper Junction in 1948 after its creator, Jimmy Frise, died suddenly. Within a year, Wright launched a wordless and untitled gag strip about a little boy for the Montreal Standard (called The Weekend magazine after 1951). Eventually entitled Nipper, the strip switched to The Canadian, another national weekly newspaper supplement, in 1967 and the name was changed to Doug Wright's Family. Wright suffered a stroke in March 1980, and had another stroke on January 3, 1983. He died the next day in hospital at the age of 65.

Nipper (disambiguation)

Nipper was the dog model for the painting His Late Master's Voice.

Nipper or Nippers may also refer to:

  • Nipper (Canadian comics), a comic strip by Doug Wright between 1949 and 1967
  • Nipper (comics), a British comic book
  • Chela (organ), a grasping structure on the limb of a crustacean or other arthropods
  • Nipper (tool), a tool used to remove small amounts of a hard material
  • Nippers, young surf lifesavers
  • Tipsy Nipper, a light aircraft
  • Jim "Nipper" Bradford (1926–2005), Australian rules footballer
  • William "Nipper" Truscott (1886–1966), Australian rules footballer
  • Nipper's Harbour, a community in Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
  • Nipper Building, an apartment block in New Jersey, USA
  • People with the surname Nipper:

  • Al Nipper (born 1959), Major League Baseball coach
  • Zack Nipper, American artist
  • See also

  • NIP (disambiguation)
  • Nippur, an ancient Sumerian city
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    Trouble

    by: Nibiru

    I...sit on the stairs...got time on my hands
    ...have nowhere to go...feelin' good and I know...
    Whatever you do don't make me come down...
    Don't make me come down...
    You will have trouble...
    Why...do you hurt me...i'm such a nice guy
    Put a knife in my heart...then turn it around
    You laugh while I bleed...as I bleed to death...
    If I bleed to death...you've got trouble...
    (chorus)
    Hit me again and I'll spit in your face...
    Love me again and I'll cut you right back...
    Smile at me and I'll Frown at you...
    You will be in trouble....
    I'm feeling alone...I pick up the phone...
    when nobody's home...I need to go out
    I'm runnin' the streets...no shirt on my back
    no shirt on my back...lookin for trouble...
    Hit me again and I'll spit in your face...
    Love me again and I'll cut you right back...
    Smile at me and I'll frown at you...
    You will be in trouble...
    I'm...coming to you...I wanna make love....
    You're not in the mood...so I leave you alone...
    I'll get magazines...go play with myself...
    go play with myself...go play with trouble
    I've got a disease...It's inside my head...
    so I go to bed...to whom it concerns...
    I haven't a clue...I haven't a clue...
    well maybe it's you...givin' me trouble
    (chorus twice)
    Hit me again and I'll....etc...




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