1. Ralph Briggs Fuller was an American cartoonist best known for his long-running comic strip Oaky Doaks, featuring the humorous adventures of a good-hearted knight in the Middle Ages.
12 Facts About Ralph Fuller
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The Ralph Fuller family lived in Richmond, Michigan, where his father was a druggist.
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Ralph Fuller was 16 when he sold his first cartoon to Life for $8.
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Ralph Fuller studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and went to work as a staff artist for the Chicago Daily News.
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Ralph Fuller had his own feature, Fuller Humor, in Judge during the 1920s.
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AP Newsfeatures offered him a detective strip, but Ralph Fuller wanted to take a humorous approach.
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In 1935, Ralph Fuller had a syndicate offer to take over a top humor strip because it was believed the creator was planning to leave.
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However, Ralph Fuller had a tough decision to make, since AP Newsfeatures was auditioning several artists to draw Oaky Doaks, scripted by the syndicate's comics editor, Bill McCleery.
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Ralph Fuller recalled that AP handed him several pages of Oaky Doaks script to look over.
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Ralph Fuller walked to the Roosevelt Hotel, where he sat in the lobby reading the script.
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Ralph Fuller was an accomplished watercolorist and a member of the Leonia, New Jersey art colony.
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Ralph Fuller drew Oaky Doaks from his home in Tenafly, New Jersey, where his studio, painted light green and curtained in gold, overlooked his back lawn.