Way Back When: Let’s Not Forget to Laugh

Kids living dangerously c. 1918. Image: Fontaine Fox cartoon, Santa Barbara Morning Press, June 29, 1918

By Betsy J. Green

Although a lot of the news in the local papers was pretty grim in 1918, there was a new cartoon artist whose work began appearing here. It was a daily cartoon drawn by a man named Fontaine Fox. Fox began drawing cartoons for a Chicago newspaper back in 1908, then was syndicated and went national.