Cartoonist Born in Memphis, Cal Ally was the son of James Pinckney Ally, creator of the serial comic Hambone’s Meditations and the first editorial cartoonist at The Commercial Appeal in 1916. “Hambone’s Meditations” was published on the front page of The Commercial Appeal. When the elder Ellie died on April 16, 1934, his wife Nona, […]
T. S. Allen
1870 – 1930 Cartoonist T.S. Allen was an American cartoonist born in Fayette County, Kentucky, around 1870. He attended the James Kane Allen’s school and graduated in classical languages from the Transylvania University in Lexington. In the 1890s, he moved to New York to work as a clerc in his father’s law office. Around same […]