Artist: ANONYMOUS
Size: 40 1/8 x 28 3/4 in./102 x 67.7 cm
Condition: A.
Printer: Carey & Sons Lith, NY
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Key Words: Literary

Fay-King / Daily Mirror. ca. 1926.
Fay King (incredibly, her real name) was one of the more celebrated female ink-slingers during the rambunctious yellow-journalism years of the American 1910s and '20s. A double-threat cartoonist and writer, petite and pretty with bobbed hair and a notepad, she got her start scribbling for Seattle and Portland papers around 1911, then headed east. The Denver Post announced her as "the greatest woman cartoonist, caricaturist and 'kidder' in the world today." While in the Mile-High City, she dove into a whirlwind romance with boxing champion Oscar "Battling" Nelson, then sued him for divorce after a three-day marriage, claiming he kidnapped her to the wedding. By 1920, she was in Manhattan, living at the Pennsylvania and Commodore hotels, inking for all the broadsheets. Headlines for The Daily Mirror include "Fay King Tips Girls on Husband-Catching," "Fay King Discovers Shop Talk is the Essence of All Conversation"; but the Depression brought a new social realism to her work: "Only Tragedy Bares Some Problems of Children of the Rich, Fay King Says" in 1932.