April 12, 2024
1884 Palmer Cox Cartoon Frogs & Mice Large Poem Rare
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Subject: 1884 Palmer Cox Cartoon Frogs & Mice Large Poem Rare Year : 1884 Approximate Size: 8" x 10" Palmer Cox (April 28, 1840 – July 24, 1924) was a Canadian illustrator and author , best known for The Brownies , his series of humorous verse books and comic strips about the mischievous but kindhearted fairy-like sprites . The cartoons were published in several books, such as The Brownies, Their Book (1887). Due to the popularity of Cox's Brownies , one of the first popular handheld cameras was named after them, the Eastman Kodak Brownie camera . Illustrator and poet Palmer Cox was born on his parent’s farm in the South-Ridge District, between Adamsville and Granby, Quebec. Moving to San Francisco, he contributed cartoons, prose and poems to such publications as the Golden Era, the Alta California, and the San Francisco Examiner. Later he moved to New York w he contributed to Scribner’s and other east coast periodicals. It was that the first collection of his Brownie stories was published; The Brownies, Their Book. He published 25 books in all; 16 of them, Brownie books. His continuing popularity can be seen in the 1988 Tuttle reprint of the Brownie Yearbook and the 1971 reprint of Bugaboo Bill. Palmer Cox died at Brownie Castle with eleven books still in print, leaving a legacy that lives on. A Cox Brownie Squibs of California
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