Template:Infobox artist George Hager was a Seattle illustrator and editorial cartoonist who worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the early 20th century.[1] He was the son of another Seattle cartoonist, John Hager.[1] He is known for being the first illustrator to show the Pike Place Market in Seattle.
Hager also edited children's page for the Christian Science Monitor[1] He studied art at the University of Washington and the Arts Student League in New York, where another Seattle cartoonist, William Charles McNulty taught.[1] He was also a member of the Seattle Cartoonists' Club, and illustrated several of the men in the club's book, The Cartoon; A Reference Book of Seattle's Successful Men.[2]
Comic strip, The Waddles
Waddles was a duck drawn by Hager for the Christian Science Monitor in the cartoon strip The Adventures of the Waddles. According to the Seattle Daily Times, Waddles was a continuation of his father's duck, associated with the weather man.[3] John Hager had to discontinue his illustrating when his eyes went, and his children ran the Waddles comic strip.[4] John's daughter, Mrs. George Dearborne, wrote the rhyming lines to go with the cartoon, while son George Hager did the illustration.[3][4]