11 Facts About Walt McDougall

Walter Hugh McDougall was an American cartoonist.

Walt McDougall produced some of the earliest full color newspaper comic strips, and was one of the first producers of regular political cartoons in American daily papers.

Walt McDougall drew children's comic strips, including Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz written by L Frank Baum, and has been called the first syndicated cartoonist for his contributions to the weekly columns of humorist Bill Nye.

Walt McDougall's books include The Hidden City and The Rambillicus Book.

Walter Hugh McDougall was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of John Alexander McDougall, a painter and close associate of writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving.

Walt McDougall began his professional work in 1876 with the New York Daily Graphic, which three years earlier had become the nation's first illustrated daily newspaper.

Walt McDougall sold early works to Harper's Weekly and Puck.

Walt McDougall began working for the New York World in 1884, and a cartoon printed on August 10 of that year became the World's first political cartoon.

Walt McDougall is sometimes credited with the first color cartoon in an American newspaper: a May 21,1893, cartoon on the cover to the World's first color Sunday comic supplement.

Walt McDougall illustrated the popular newspaper column of humorist Bill Nye for many years, and has thus been called the first syndicated cartoonist.

Walt McDougall illustrated the comic strip Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz, written by L Frank Baum, as well as his own novel The Hidden City and story books such as Comic Animals and The Rambillicus Book.