F. Y. Cory
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| Born |
October 18, 1877 Waukegan, Illinois |
| Died | July 28, 1972 (aged 94) Stanwood, Washington |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Cartoonist, illustrator |
| Pseudonym(s) | F. Y. Cory, F. Cory Cooney, Fanny Cory Cooney, Fanny Y. Cory, FYC |
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Notable works
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Sonnysayings (c. 1920–1956) Little Miss Muffet (1935–1956) |
| Spouse(s) | Fred W. Cooney (m. 1904) |
| Children | Sayre, Robert, Ted |
Fanny Young Cory (October 17, 1877 – July 28, 1972) was a cartoonist and book illustrator best known for her comic strips Sonnysayings and Little Miss Muffet. Cory was one of America's first female syndicated cartoonists.
She went by several pen names: F. Y. Cory, F. Cory Cooney and Fanny Cory Cooney but eventually used Fanny Y. Cory as her professional name. She sometimes used FYC as a signature on her early work.
Fanny Young Cory was born in Waukegan, Illinois, on October 17, 1878, the daughter of Benjamin Sayre Cory and Jessy Salter McDougall.
Cory was 14 when she went to art school in Helena, Montana. At the age of 17, she arrived in New York and enrolled at the Art Students League. She returned to Montana in 1905. She died in 1972 in Stanwood, Washington.
Cory did covers and interior illustrations for Century, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Scribner's, The Saturday Evening Post and St. Nicholas. She was an illustrator of children's stories since 1898, under the signature of F. Y. Cory.
Cory illustrated Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (published by Rand, McNally & Company, copyright 1902, 1905). She illustrated L. Frank Baum's books The Master Key and The Enchanted Island of Yew. She illustrated Marion Hill's The Pettison Twins (McClure, Phillips & Co, 1906). Cory illustrated William L. Hill's Jackieboy in Rainbowland (Rand McNally & Company, 1911).
In c. 1920 she began producing a one-column comic entitled Sonnysayings, distributed by the Ledger Syndicate, which appeared in many newspapers throughout the United States, Canada, Australia and Scotland, under the name of Fanny Y. Cory. By 1935, Sonnnysayings had moved to King Features, where it ran until Cory's retirement in 1956.
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