Mell Lazarus
was an American cartoonist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was best known as the creator of two comic strips, Miss Peach (1957–2002) and Momma (1970–2016). He wrote two novels. For his comic strip Pauline McPeril (a 1966-69 collaboration with Jack Rickard), he used the pseudonym Fulton, which is also the name of a character in his first novel, The Boss Is Crazy, Too.