Lou Ferstadt

Louis Goodman Ferstadt (7 October 1900–August 1954) was an American muralist and comics artist.

[2] His early childhood coincided with a pogrom and in 1910, his family emigrated to Chicago in the United States.

[1] In 1926–1927, Ferstadt did a comic strip called The Kids on Our Block in the New York Evening Graphic.

[5] He painted murals at the RCA Building and the Eighth Street Subway station in New York City on the occasion of the 1939 World's Fair.

Ferstadt identified as a communist and regularly contributed comic strips for the Daily Worker newspaper.

Ferstadt working as part of the New Deal