Harper's Weekly cartoons of Thomas Nast, who was recruited in 1862 and worked with the "Weekly" for more than 20 years. Nast was a feared caricaturist, and is often called the father of American political cartooning. He was the first to use an elephant as the symbol of the Republican Party. He also drew the legendary character of Santa Claus; his version became strongly associated with the figure, who was popularized as part of Christmas customs in the late nineteenth century. "Harper's Weekly" was the most widely read journal in the United States throughout the period of the Civil War. So as
Robert Brown (cartoonist) greet a ship, everyone was dressed as basketball players and a coach was standing in between them. Robert Brown (cartoonist) Robert "Buck" Brown (February 3, 1936 – July 2, 2007) was an African-American painter and cartoonist best known for creating "Playboy" magazine's naughty "Granny" character. Brown was born in Morrison, Tennessee, in the 1930s and moved to Chicago as a child after the separation of his parents. He graduated from Englewood High School in 1954 and then joined the United States Air Force. While in the Airforce He would pinup his cartoons in the barracks getting laughs from the sergeant