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Fontaine Talbot Fox Jr. (June 4, 1884 – August 9, 1964) was an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for writing and illustrating his Toonerville Folks comic panel, which ran from 1913 to 1955 in 250 to 300 newspapers across North America.
Toonerville Folks ( a.k.a. The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains) was a popular newspaper cartoon feature by Fontaine Fox, which ran from 1908 to 1955. It began in 1908 in the Chicago Post, and by 1913, it was syndicated nationally by the Wheeler Syndicate. From the 1930s on, it was distributed by the McNaught Syndicate. [1]
Fontaine Fox. (3 March 1884 - 9 August 1964, USA) Born in Louisville, Kentucky, Fontaine Talbot Fox Jr. started his career as a reporter and part-time cartoonist for the Louisville Herald.
GREENWICH, Conn. Aug. 9 (AP) — Fontaine Fox, the cartoonist who created the “Toonerville Trolley” drawings that appeared on comic pages of more than 200 newspapers, died today at Greenwich...
The illustration of the fable by François Chauveau in the first volume of La Fontaine's fables, 1668. The Fox and the Grapes is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 15 in the Perry Index. The narration is concise and subsequent retellings have often been equally so. The story concerns a fox that tries to eat grapes from a vine but cannot ...
Fontaine Fox: Kentucky's Foremost Cartoonist By Kelly Thurman* For much too long the comic genius and the historic sig nificance of Fontaine Fox's social criticism has gone unsung Unquestionably, Fox deserves to be listed as the greatest car toonist yet produced by Kentucky. For more than forty years
Fontaine Talbot Fox, Jr. was an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for writing and illustrating his Toonerville Folks comic panel, which ran from 1913 to 1955 in 250 to 300 newspapers across North America.
That sense of floating detachment is one of the things that make Fox's art identifiable at a glance. Fontaine Fox retired in 1955, and nobody took over his panel — in fact, it's unlikely anyone ever could, really. And so, Toonerville Folks ended on February 9 of that year.
Sep 3, 1972 · “Toonerville Folks” was one such—a daily single panel that ran for more than 40 years, first sporadically in The Chicago Post, then syndicated in some 300 papers until 1955, when its creator,...
Nov 18, 2019 · Fontaine Fox (1884-1964), the celebrated “Toonerville Trolley” cartoonist, lived in Port Washington from 1914 to the 1930’s. His “Terrible Tempered” Mr. Bangs, the “Powerful Katrinka,” Banker Grey, and Old Man Flint were small-town characters who earned Fox a syndication in over 200 newspapers.
