Palmer Cox

Palmer Cox (April 281840-July 241924) was a Canadian born artist, best known for his series of humorous verse cartoons about the mischievous but kind-hearted Brownies. 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.

He was born in Granby, Quebec, son of Michael and Sarah (Miller) Cox, and became a carpenter and car builder. He moved to San Francisco via Panama as a railroad contractor. He lived in San Francisco from 1863-1875. In 1874 he began to formally study drawing and contribute illustrated stories to such publcations as Golden Era and Alta California. After 1875 lived in New York (Pine View House, East Quogue, Long Island). His Brownie stories appeared in St. Nicholas and the Ladies' Home Journal

Works

• Squibs of California (1874) Later republished as Comic Yarns (1887)
• Hans Von Petter's Trip to Gotham (1878)
• How Columbus Found America (1878)
• That Stanley (1878)
• Queer People, such as Goblins, Giants, Merry Men and Monarchs (1888)
• Queer People with Paws and Claws (1888)
• Queer People with Wings and Stings (1888)
• The Brownies, Their Book (1887)
• Another Brownie Book
• The Brownie's at Home (1893)
• The Brownie's Around the World (1894)
• The Brownie's Through the Union (1895)
• The Brownie's Abroad (1899)
• The Brownie's in the Philippines
• The Brownie Clown in Brownie Town
• The Brownie Primer
• The Brownie Calendar
• Palmer Cox's Brownies (Play)
• The Brownie's in Fairyland (Children's Cantata)

External links

• biography
• bibliography
• The Brownies' Ride online