Mary Tourtel
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Mary Tourtel (1874 – 1948) was an artist and creator of Rupert Bear. She was born Mary Caldwell in Canterbury, England on January 28, 1874.
Born into an artistic family she grew up studying art, in particular animal drawings. She became a children's illustrator, through which she met and eventually married the editor of The Daily Express newspaper, Herbert Tourtel. Rupert the Bear was created in the 1920s as competition with The Daily Mail newspaper and their character Teddy Tail created by Charles Folkard, and Pip, Squeak and Wilfrid in The Daily Mirror.
She retired in 1934 after beginning to go blind and the strip was continued by Alfred Bestall. Tourtel died in 1948.pt:Mary Tourtel
