Tom Little (cartoonist)

Little was born in Snatch (now called Peytonsville) in an extremely rural part of Williamson County, Tennessee.

[4] His tenure at the paper was interrupted by service in the US Army (at 5'2", he was rejected by the US Marines for being underweight) and a year (1923–24) as a reporter and cartoonist at the syndicate of the New York Herald Tribune.

[2][3] He began drawing editorial cartoons for the Tennessean in 1934 and drew exclusively after abandoning editing and reporting in 1937.

[1][6] Beginning in 1934, Little collaborated with Tom Sims (writer of Popeye) on a single panel comic strip for King Features called Sunflower Street, depicting the lives of rural African-Americans.

[2] Little married Helen Dahnke of Union City, TN (1900-1938) in 1927;[7] she was an editor for The Nashville Tennessean.