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Palmer Cox

Born April 28, 1840(1840-04-28)
Granby, Quebec, Canada
Died July 24, 1924 (aged 84)
Granby, Quebec, Canada
Occupation Illustrator, author, poet
Notable work(s) The Brownies

Palmer Cox (April 28, 1840 – July 24, 1924) was a Canadian illustrator and author, best known for his series of humorous verse books and comic strips about the mischievous but kindhearted fairy-like The Brownies. Events 1192 - Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title Year 1840 ( MDCCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Granby is a city in southwestern Quebec, located east of Montreal. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Events 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Employment is a Contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. The Brownies is a series of publications by Canadian Illustrator and Author Palmer Cox, based on names and elements from Celtic Events 1192 - Assassination of Conrad of Montferrat (Conrad I King of Jerusalem, in Tyre, two days after his title Year 1840 ( MDCCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year Events 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. Year 1924 ( MCMXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page For the vector -based drawing program by Adobe Systems, see Adobe Illustrator. An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist A fairy (also fay, fey, fae, faerie; collectively wee folk, good folk, people of peace, fair The Brownies is a series of publications by Canadian Illustrator and Author Palmer Cox, based on names and elements from Celtic The cartoons were published in several books, such as The Brownies, Their Book (1887). Due to the popularity of Cox's Brownies, one of the first popular handheld cameras was named after them, the Eastman Kodak Brownie camera. Brownie was the name of a long-running and extremely popular series of simple and inexpensive Cameras made by Kodak.

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Biography

He was born in Granby, Quebec, son of Michael and Sarah (Miller) Cox, and became a carpenter and car builder. Granby is a city in southwestern Quebec, located east of Montreal. He moved to San Francisco via Panama as a railroad contractor. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Panama, officially the Republic of Panama (República de Panamá) is the southernmost country of Central America. He lived in San Francisco from 1863 to 1875. In 1874, he began to formally study drawing and contribute illustrated stories to such publications as Golden Era and Alta California. [1] After 1875, Cox lived in New York (Pine View House, East Quogue, Long Island). New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches During this time he regularly contributed editorial cartoons to Oscar Hammerstein's United States Tobacco Journal.

The earliest publication of Brownie characters took place in 1879, but not until the February, 1881 issue of Wide Awake magazine were the creatures printed in their final form. In 1883, Brownie stories appeared in St. Nicholas Magazine and as their popularity rose, they were covered in publications such as the Ladies' Home Journal. The St Nicholas Magazine (1873-1941 was a successful American children's magazine published by Scribner's beginning in November 1873 and designed for Ladies' Home Journal is a Magazine which first appeared February 16, 1883 and eventually became one of the leading magazines of the 20th Century [2]

Cox's Brownies are little men who have adventures together. Each Brownie has a distinctive physical appearance: for example, one, Cholly Boutonnière, wears a top hat and monocle, another is dressed as a stereotypical Chinese peasant, yet another is dressed as a Red Indian chief in war bonnet. Cox's text is quite crude, and does not develop individual personalities for the Brownies, aside from the "ethnic" ones speaking in stereotypical dialect. Cox's illustrations tend to show a crowd of Brownies jumbled together, with specific Brownies recurring from one illustration to the next, but with no Brownie occupying a predictable location in the picture.

Cox died in his home, Brownie Castle, on July 24, 1924. His tombstone, decorated with a Brownie figure, reads: In creating the Brownies he bestowed a priceless heritage on childhood. [3]

Bibliography

A Cox Brownie
A Cox Brownie

Homages in other works

Sources

Footnotes
  1. ^ Lambiek Comiclopedia. Palmer Cox.
  2. ^ Don Markstein's Toonopedia. The Brownies (1881).
  3. ^ Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon. Palmer Cox biography.
  4. ^ Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon. The Brownie Clown in Brownie Town. Image
  5. ^ Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon. Brownies on stage-Lyrics.

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