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Walter Rease Allman was an American cartoonist.
Walter Allman worked in the grain business at a young age, but didn't have much interest in the trade, spending his time drawing on the sides of boxes and crates. His talent soon landed a job at an engraving company; he later found employment with the Toledo News-Bee newspaper. His cartoon "work was picked up by the Scripps syndicate NEA Service and his comic Doings of the Duffs became a nationwide feature". An example of his work with the Toledo paper can be seen in 1912, honoring victims of the Titanic disaster.
His “The Doings of the Duffs” comic strip gained a similar level of fame with the public as the Mutt and Jeff strip had.
Allman was a cartoonist from 1915-1924. He died in 1924 at age 42 after suffering a nervous breakdown in 1923.