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1929 BATHING BEAUTY NAUTICAL CARTOON R. B. FULLER ARTIST COMIC PRINT FC5035:
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1929 BATHING BEAUTY NAUTICAL CARTOON R. B. FULLER ARTIST COMIC PRINT FC5035

DATE OF THIS**ORIGINAL** ITEM:1929

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ILLUSTRATOR/ARTIST:

Ralph Briggs Fuller(March 9, 1890 – August 16, 1963) was an American cartoonist best known for his long-runningcomic stripOaky Doaks, featuring the humorous adventures of a good-hearted knight in the Middle Ages. He signed the stripsRB. Fuller.

Born inCapac, Michigan,Fuller was the oldest child of six children born to Louise and Arthur Fuller. The Fuller family lived inRichmond, Michigan, where his father was a druggist. He was 16 when he sold his first cartoon toLifefor $8. In the following mail, he received a letter fromLiferequesting the return of the $8 because they had previously used that gag. He did send back the $8. However, he soon soldLifeanother cartoon and followed with contributions to theNew York World'sFunsupplement in 1910.

Fuller studied at theChicago Academy of Fine Artsand went to work as a staff artist for theChicago Daily News. While he was at theDaily News, he received $100 for the first color picture ever published byLife. That triggered a desire to work in magazine illustration, and he moved to New York, where he lived at 17 Livingston Street. After a 1914 trip to England, Fuller and his wife Alexa lived at 217 East 16th Street inBrooklyn. By 1920, the couple and their children Robert and Elizabeth were living at 170 Ames Avenue inLeonia, New Jersey.

For years he contributed cartoons HumorandThe New Yorker. He had his own feature,Fuller Humor, inJudgeduring the 1920s. With the collapse ofJudgeand other humor magazines, Fuller's freelance markets were diminishing, so he considered doing a comic strip.AP Newsfeaturesoffered him a detective strip, but Fuller wanted to take a humorous approach.

In 1935, Fuller had a syndicate offer to take over a top humor strip because it was believed the creator was planning to leave. However, Fuller had a tough decision to make, since AP Newsfeatures was auditioning several artists to drawOaky Doaks, scripted by the syndicate's comics editor, Bill McCleery. Fuller recalled that AP handed him several pages ofOaky Doaksscript to look over. He walked to theRoosevelt Hotel, where he sat in the lobby reading the script. When he finished, he had made his decision; he saw the comic possibilities ofOaky Doaks, and he also would have the opportunity to do a strip displaying his name as the artist.

Oaky Doakswas launched on June 17, 1935, many months before the start ofPrince Valiant. For two years, Fuller and McCleery collaborated (with no credit given to McCleery as scripter). Fuller eventually took over the writing as well as the art, along with other writing by M. J. Wing.

TheOaky DoaksSunday strip, which began in 1941, was initially drawn by Bill Dyer (who also worked onThe Adventures of Patsy) and later by Fuller. Oaky Doaks visited Camelot in the 1940s, but he later went to the Kingdom of Uncertainia, where he remained until the strip ended in 1961.

Fuller was also an accomplished watercolorist and a member of theLeonia, New Jerseyart colony.He drewOaky Doaksfrom his home inTenafly, New Jersey, where his studio, painted light green and curtained in gold, overlooked his back lawn. In 1950, he reflected:

I liked a sequence when Oaky was captured by the Vikings. They got over to the American Coast and got mixed up with the Indians. That gave me Vikings, and Indians as well as knighthood to burlesque. I just finished a Sunday sequence where there was a combination of pirates and Indians and buried gold, shipwrecks, cast-ashore-on-a-desert-island and anything a kid would want in a feature. I was sorry when I had to quit it. I think every man has a little of the knight in him... I think a situation is funnier than a gag—but if you get both, it's really fine. Maybe I'm trying to burlesque the serious adventure strips, I don't know.

Oaky Doakscame to an end when the comics division of AP Newsfeatures folded in 1961.

A resident ofTenafly, New Jersey, Fuller died two years later inBoothbay Harbor, Maine, where he had a summer home.

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