Name Grace Drayton | Role Author | |
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Died 1936, New York City, New York, United States Books Dolly Dingle Paper Do, Adventures of Dolly Dingle Pa, Six Dolly Dingle Postcards, Favorite Dolly Dingle Sti, More Dolly Dingle Paper Do | ||
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Grace Drayton (October 14, 1877 – January 31, 1936 ) was an illustrator who created popular period comics Dolly Dimples (1910) and The Pussycat Princess (1935). She created the "Campbell Soup Kids" advertising campaign [1] and is probably best known for her popular Dolly Dingle paper dolls in the women's magazine Pictorial Review. She frequently collaborated with her sister, Margaret G. Hays, also a comic strip author and writer.
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Christened Viola Grace Gebbie, in 1900 she married Theodore Wiederseim and started signing her work "Grace Wiederseim." In 1911, Grace divorced Wiederseim and married W. Drayton, and started signing her work Grace Drayton. She divorced Drayton in 1923 but continued to sign her work "Grace Drayton" or "G G Drayton."
She was an early member of Philadelphia's The Plastic Club.