Thomas Nast, the German-born editorial cartoonist for Harper’s Weekly magazine, came up with both of them — he introduced the donkey first, on Jan. 19, 1870: 155 years ago Sunday. And in case ...

German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some ... Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly, the celebrated Nast drew thousands of cartoons during the second half of the nineteenth ...

In an 1874 cartoon published in Harper's Weekly, Nast depicted a donkey (representing ... the symbol became widely accepted. Thomas Nast played a crucial role in solidifying the association ...

THOMAS NAST, a German-born caricaturist, has been hailed as the “father of the American cartoon” by critics and historians. His most famous work appeared in Harper’s Weekly between 1862 and ...

One of the most influential figures in shaping the modern image of Santa was Thomas Nast, an American cartoonist who drew pictures of Santa for Harper's Weekly in the 1860s and 1870s ...