E. W. Kemble

Edward Winsor Kemble (January 18, 1861–September 19, 1933) was an American cartoonist and illustrator. Born in Sacramento, California, his family moved to New York when he was young.

Kemble published his first cartoon in 1880 in Harper's Bazaar. He became a political cartoonist for the New York Daily Graphic and contributed to early Life issues. Kemble lived in the Rochelle Park area of suburban New Rochelle.^[1]

Mark Twain commissioned Kemble to illustrate the original edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

He held staff positions at Collier's Weekly and Harper's Weekly. Kemble was known for his depictions of African Americans.

His work includes A Coon Alphabet, "an alphabet book with rhymes written in imitation of southern Black English of the 19th century and illustrations that portray blacks in negative stereotypical roles".^[2] A Coon Alphabet invited its reader to turn the pages to complete rhymes in which pickaninny characters met with comic violence.^[3]

References

^ Westchester, The American Suburb, Roger Panetta (2006); page 186
^ "Descriptive notes for A Coon Alphabet". Historical Children's Literature Collection. University of Washington Libraries. http://content.lib.washington.edu/u?/childrens,733. Retrieved 30 July 2010.
^ Robin Bernstein, Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights, (New York: New York University Press, 2011), 74-78.

External links

Comic Creator: E. W. Kemble via lambiek.net
Kemble, E.W. (February 1930). Illustrating Huckleberry Finn. The Colophon, A Book Collectors' Quarterly (via University of Virginia)
Kemble's Illustrations for Huck Finn (via University of Virginia)

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