Russ Westover

Russell Channing Westover (March 8, 1886 – May 3, 1966) was a cartoonist best known for his long-run comic strip Tillie the Toiler.

After four months, he dropped out after an instructor said, "Young man, the drawing of Caesar is good, but that caricature you made of me on the border is terrible".

Westover worked on his concept of a flapper character in a strip he titled Rose of the Office.

Cupples & Leon published a series of at least eight Tillie the Toiler reprint collections beginning in the 1920s and continuing into the 1930s.

Westover profited from another movie when Kay Harris appeared in the title role of Columbia Pictures' Tillie the Toiler in 1941.

Russ Westover's Tillie the Toiler (June 25, 1939)
Russ Westover, Hugh Herbert and Otto Soglow look over the comics section of the April 10, 1938 edition of the Los Angeles Examiner .