Name Fanny Cory | ||
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Died July 28, 1972, Stanwood, Washington, United States | ||
Fanny Young Cory (October 17, 1877 – July 28, 1972) was an artist and illustrator best known for her comic strip Little Miss Muffet, syndicated by King Features. She did both art and writing on "Sonnysayings." She went by several names: F. Y. Cory, F. Cory Cooney and Fanny Cory Cooney but eventually used Fanny Y. Cory as her professional name. She sometimes used FYC as a signature on her early work.
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Early life
Born in Waukegan, Illinois, on October 17, 1878, the daughter of Benjamin Sayre Cory and Jessy Salter McDougall.
She was 14 when she went art school in Helena, Montana. At the age of 17, she arrived in New York and enrolled at the Art Students League.
Fanny Cory was related to Kate Cory, particularly noted for her photographs and paintings of the Hopi.
Career
She did covers and interior illustrations for Century, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Scribner's, The Saturday Evening Post and St. Nicholas.
She was an illustrator of children's stories since 1898, under signature of F. Y. Cory.
In 1928 she was designing a one column comic entitled "Sonnysayings," appearing in many newspapers throughout the United States, Canada, Australia and Scotland, under the name of Fanny Y. Cory.
The Little Miss Muffet comic book was published in 1948 and 1949 by Best Books.
Book illustration
She illustrated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (published by Rand, McNally & Company copyright 1902, 1905)
She illustrated L. Frank Baum's books, The Master Key and The Enchanted Island of Yew.
She illustrated Marion Hill, The Pettison Twins, McClure, Phillips & Co, 1906.
She illustrated William L. Hill, "Jackieboy in Rainbowland" Rand McNally & Company 1911
Personal life
Fanny Cory Cooney lived in New York and moved to Montana in 1905. She married Fred W. Cooney and had 3 children: Sayre, Robert, Ted. She lived at Canyon Ferry, Helena, Montana.
She died in 1972 in Stanwood, Washington.