Henry Mayer (cartoonist)

Henry Mayer (18 July 1868 – 27 September 1954), often seen as Hy Mayer in signatures, using the traditional abbreviation for Henry,[1] was a German-American editorial cartoonist, comic artist,[2] children's book illustrator and animator.

Mayer was born in Worms, Germany, the son of a Jewish merchant from London.

[3] After working as a magazine illustrator in Munich, Paris (Le Figaro Illustré), and London (Pall Mall Gazette), he emigrated to the United States in 1886.

[5] From 1909 to 1917 he contributed artwork to early films such as the Universal Animated Weekly newsreel series.

[8] Mayer also worked with Otto Messmer on the series The Travels of Teddy, satirizing President Teddy Roosevelt, before Messmer left to work with producer Pat Sullivan on the long-running Felix the Cat animation series.

Henry Mayer, 1922
The Awakening . Suffragists were successful in the West; their torch awakens the women struggling in the East and South in this cartoon by Henry Mayer in Puck 20 February 1915