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Johnny Gruelle
American artist and author · United States · On the map · Artists · Lived 1880 to 1938 · aged 57
John Barton Gruelle was an American artist, political cartoonist, children's book and comics author, illustrator, and storyteller. He is best known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy dolls and as the author/illustrator of dozens of books. He also created the Beloved Belindy doll.
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Raggedy Ann and Andy
"The Quacky Doodles" 1917 ad by Paramount-Bray Pictographs in Motion Picture News
Gruelle's U.S. Patent design for the Raggedy Ann doll
Rapunzel, from an edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales, illustrated by Johnny Gruelle
The character "Sally Migrundy" from the anthology Friendly Fairies (1919)About this person
Gruelle also contributed cartoons and illustrations to at least ten newspapers, four major news syndicates, and more than a dozen national magazines. He was the son of Hoosier Group painter Richard Gruelle.
