Thomas Starling Sullivant

Born in Ohio,Thomas Sullivant was raised in Germany, and then studied art in Europe, returning to Philadelphia, where in 1885, he studied under Thomas Eakins at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts.

In 1886, his first cartoons appeared in the minor humor magazine Truth. By the next year, his work could be seen in Puck and Harper's Weekly. Soon after, Life published his "Aesop to Date" series and other cartoons. By 1900, Sullivant was working mainly for Judge, though his work also appeared in the Hearst newspapers and in Life.