1. Walter Harrison Cady was an American illustrator and author, best known for his Peter Rabbit comic strip which he wrote and drew for 28 years.
13 Facts About Harrison Cady
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Harrison Cady's father fostered a love of nature and encouraged his art skills.
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Harrison Cady entered an apprenticeship with a local painter, Parker Perkins.
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Harrison Cady was 18 when his father was killed in Boston.
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Harrison Cady moved to New York City and within a year found work as an illustrator with the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper.
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Harrison Cady stayed at the Brooklyn Eagle for four years, while freelancing to other publications.
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Harrison Cady's first published comic strip was Jolly Jumpers, which ran from 1912 to 1914 via the Publishers Press syndicate.
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Harrison Cady's income increased considerably after Life editor John Ames Mitchell signed Cady as staff artist and cartoonist.
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Harrison Cady continued to write and draw the strip for almost three decades.
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Harrison Cady had a long association with Burgess, illustrating the writer's books, including Happy Jack, and his daily newspaper column, Bedtime Stories.
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Harrison Cady was very prolific, illustrating over 70 years for such publications as St Nicholas Magazine, Boys' Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home Journal, Good Housekeeping and Country Gentleman.
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Harrison Cady illustrated the Queen Silver-Bell series by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
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Harrison Cady's work is on display at the Thornton W Burgess Museum in Sandwich, Massachusetts.