Which children's comic strip character was created in 1928 by Mary Tourtel?
Mary Tourtel was buried with her husband at St Martin's Church, Canterbury; they had no children. In 2003, the Canterbury Heritage Museum, which closed in 2018, opened a special wing dedicated to Rupert Bear. The complete listing may be found at Rupert Little Bear Library. Mary Tourtel Mary Tourtel (born Mary Caldwell on 28 January 187415 March 1948) was an English artist and creator of the comic strip Rupert Bear. Her works have sold 50 million copies internationally. Tourtel was born Mary Caldwell, the youngest child of Samuel Caldwell, a stained-glass artist and stonemason, and his wife Sarah. Mary studied art under
Dolly Dimples (comic strip) Dolly Dimples (comic strip) Dolly Dimples was a syndicated comic strip character created by early American female cartoonist Grace Drayton who appeared in various William Randolph Hearst/King Features Syndicate publications. Over the period 1903 to 1933 she was known by the various names "Toodles" (1903–1904), "Dottie Dimple" (1908–1911), "Dimples" (1914–1918), and finally "Dolly Dimples" (1928–1933). King Features' archivist dates the character's debut as March 22, 1903, although at that point she was called Toodles, as part of the strip "Naughty Toodles", which ran from 1903 to 1904. An analog character appeared in two non-Hearst strips, "The Adventures of Dolly Drake