![]() The Pussycat Princess was started in 1935. Drayton was the first woman to be a cartoonist for Hearst. She also created syndicated newspaper comic strips for Hearst/King Features such as Naughty Toodles, Dottie Dimple, Dimples, Dolly Dimples and Bobby Bounce, and The Pussycat Princess. She either divorced Drayton or he died in 1923. In 1911, she divorced Wiederseim and married William Heyward Drayton and started signing her work as Grace Drayton. Drayton designed the popular Dolly Dingle Paper Dolls which appeared in the women's magazine Pictorial Review. Hays as writer, Drayton produced The Adventures of Dolly Drake and Bobby Blake in Storyland and The Turr’ble Tales of Kaptin Kiddo in the period 1905–1909. The Campbell Soup Kids and Drayton's other children characters were drawn in a cute cherubic style often with round faces, plump bodies, and rosy cheeks. She created the Campbell Soup Kids which was used in advertisements for Campbell's Soup beginning in 1904. įrom 1905–1909, she was a member of The Plastic Club, an arts organization in Philadelphia. Drayton began her career as a freelance artist in 1895. ![]() While at PSDW, she was a student of the American artist and teacher Robert Henri from 1893-94. ĭrayton attended Drexel Institute (now Drexel University) and the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (PSDW). ![]() Her father, George Gebbie, was an art publisher. Drayton was born Viola Grace Gebbie in 1877 in Philadelphia. ![]()
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