Rose O’Neill
She grew up in  rural Nebraska. Her father was a book salesman.  ^Her mother was a homemaker. She bacame interested in the arts when she was still young. She wenmt to New York City to become an illustrator. She first published her Kewpie cartoons in 1909 in Ladies' Home Journal. In 1912, bisque dolls were made from them. The dolls were very popular. They are seen as one of the first mass-marketed dolls in the United States.