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Sir Gerald Hubert Edward Busson du Maurier ( 26 March 1873  11 April 1934 ) was an English actor and manager . He was the son of the ___MASK44___ George du Maurier and brother of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies . In 1902 , he married the actress Muriel Beaumont with whom he had three daughters : writers Angela du Maurier ( 1904  2002 ) and Daphne du Maurier ( 1907  1989 ), and painter Jeanne du Maurier ( 1911  1996 ). His popularity lay in his subtle and naturalistic acting : a " delicately realistic style of acting that sought to suggest rather than to state the deeper emotions ". His " Times " obituary said of his career : " His parentage assured him of engagements in the best of company to begin with ; but it was his own talent that took advantage of them ." A cartoonist ( also comic strip creator ) is a visual artist who specializes in drawing cartoons . This work is often created for entertainment , political commentary , or advertising . Cartoonists may work in many formats , such as animation , booklets , comic strips , comic books , editorial cartoons , graphic novels , manuals , gag cartoons , graphic design , illustrations , storyboards , posters , shirts , books , advertisements , greeting cards , magazines , newspapers , and video game packaging . A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative , often serialized , with text in balloons and captions . Traditionally , throughout the 20th century and into the 21st , these have been published in newspapers and magazines , with horizontal strips printed in black - and - white in daily newspapers , while Sunday newspapers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections . With the development of the internet , they began to appear online as web comics . There were more than 200 different comic strips and daily cartoon panels in ___MASK41___ newspapers alone each day for most of the 20th century , for a total of at least 7 , 300 , 000 episodes . Muriel Beaumont , Lady du Maurier ( 1881  27 November 1957 ) was an English stage actress . She was the wife of the actor Gerald du Maurier and mother of the ___MASK44___ Daphne du Maurier . She retired from the stage in 1910 . Mary Anne Clarke ( born Mary Anne Thompson ; 3 April 1776  21 June 1852 ) was the mistress of Prince Frederick , Duke of York and Albany . Their relationship began in 1803 , while he was Commander - in - Chief of the army . Later in 1809 , she wrote her memoirs which were published . She was the subject of a portrait by Adam Buck , and a caricature by Isaac Cruikshank ; ten days after the latter ' s publication , the Duke resigned from his post as Commander of the ___MASK13___ Army . In 1811 , she commissioned Irish sculptor Lawrence Gahagan to sculpt a marble bust of her ; this is now housed in the National Portrait Gallery , ___MASK92___ . A comic book or comicbook , also called comic magazine or simply comic , is a publication that consists of comic art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panels that represent individual scenes . Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative , usually dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form . Although some origins in 18th century ___MASK60___ and 1830s Europe , comic books were first popularized in the United States during the 1930s . The first modern comic book , " Famous Funnies ", was released in the United States in 1933 and was a reprinting of earlier newspaper humor comic strips , which had established many of the story - telling devices used in comics . The term " comic book " derives from ___MASK41___ comic books once being a compilation of comic strips of a humorous tone ; however , this practice was replaced by featuring stories of all genres , usually not humorous in tone . Sir James Matthew Barrie , 1st Baronet , ( 9 May 1860 19 June 1937 ) was a Scottish novelist and playwright , best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan . He was born and educated in ___MASK35___ but moved to ___MASK92___ , where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays . There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys , who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens ( included in " The Little White Bird "), then to write " Peter Pan , or The Boy Who Wouldn ' t Grow Up ", a " fairy play " about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland . Sylvia Jocelyn Llewelyn Davies ( 25 November 1866  27 August 1910 ), " née " Sylvia du Maurier , was the mother of the boys who were the inspiration for the stories of Peter Pan by J . M . Barrie . She was the daughter of cartoonist and ___MASK44___ George du Maurier and his wife Emma Wightwick , the elder sister to actor Gerald du Maurier , the aunt of novelists Angela and Daphne du Maurier and a great - granddaughter of Mary Anne Clarke , royal mistress of Prince Frederick , Duke of York and Albany . George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier ( 6 March 1834 -- 8 October 1896 ) was a French - ___MASK13___ cartoonist and author , known for his cartoons in Punch and also for his novel Trilby . He was the father of actor Gerald du Maurier and grandfather of the writers Angela du Maurier and Dame Daphne du Maurier . He was also the father of Sylvia Llewelyn Davies and grandfather of the five boys who inspired J . M . Barrie ' s Peter Pan . Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J . M . Barrie . A free spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up , Peter Pan spends his never - ending childhood having adventures on the mythical island of ___MASK4___ as the leader of the Lost Boys , interacting with fairies , pirates , mermaids , ___MASK85___ , and occasionally ordinary children from the world outside ___MASK4___ . In addition to two distinct works by Barrie , the character has been featured in a variety of media and merchandise , both adapting and expanding on Barrie ' s works . These include a 1953 animated film , a 2003 dramatic / live - action film , a TV series and many other works . ___MASK4___ is a fictional location featured in the works of J . M . Barrie and those based on them . It is an imaginary faraway place , where Peter Pan , Tinker Bell , the Lost Boys and other mythical creatures and beings live . Although not all people who come to ___MASK4___ cease to age , its best known resident famously refused to grow up , and it is often used as a metaphor for eternal childhood ( and childishness ), immortality , and escapism . It was first introduced as " the Never Never Land " in the theatre play " Peter Pan , or The Boy Who Wouldn ' t Grow Up " by Scottish writer J . M . Barrie , first staged in 1904 . A mermaid is a legendary aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish . Mermaids appear in the folklore of many cultures worldwide , including the Near East , Europe , Africa and Asia . The first stories appeared in ancient ___MASK49___ , in which the goddess Atargatis transformed herself into a mermaid out of shame for accidentally killing her human lover . Mermaids are sometimes associated with perilous events such as floods , storms , shipwrecks and drownings . In other folk traditions ( or sometimes within the same tradition ), they can be benevolent or beneficent , bestowing boons or falling in love with humans . The Prince Frederick , Duke of York and Albany ( Frederick Augustus ; 16 August 1763  5 January 1827 ), a member of the House of Hanover , was the second son and child of King George III , King of ___MASK39___ and Ireland and Elector of Hanover . A soldier by profession , from 1764 to 1803 he was Prince - Bishop of Osnabrück , and from the death of his father in 1820 until his own death in 1827 he was the heir presumptive to his elder brother , King George IV , both to the ___MASK71___ of ___MASK39___ and Ireland and the Kingdom of Hanover . However , he died before his brother .