Rose Cecil O’Neill (June 25, 1874 – April 6, 1944) was an American cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. She built a flourishing career as a magazine and book illustrator and, at a youngster age, became the best-known and highest- paid female personal ad illustrator in the United States. O’ Neill earned a fortune and international fame by creating the Kewpie, the most widely known cartoon feel until Mickey Mouse.
The daughter of a CD salesman and a homemaker, O’Neill was raised in rural Nebraska. She exhibited incorporation in the arts at an in advance age, and sought a career as an illustrator in New York City at age fifteen. Her Kewpie cartoons, which made their debut in a 1909 matter of Ladies’ Home Journal, were far along manufactured as bisque dolls in 1912 by J. D. Kestner, a German toy company, followed by composition material and celluloid versions. The dolls were wildly popular in the to the front twentieth century, and are considered to be one of the first mass-marketed toys in the United States.
O’Neill plus wrote several novels and books of poetry, and was supple in the women’s suffrage movement. She was for a times the highest-paid female illustrator in the world upon the endowment of the Kewpie dolls. O’Neill has been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
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