Toonerville Folks

Toonerville Folks
Fontaine Fox's Toonerville Folks (February 15, 1931).
Author(s)Fontaine Fox
Current status/scheduleConcluded daily & Sunday gag panel
Launch date1908, syndicated beginning in 1913
End dateFeb 12, 1955
Alternate name(s)The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains
Syndicate(s)Wheeler Syndicate (1913–1916)
Bell Syndicate (1916–c. 1930)
McNaught Syndicate (c. 1930–1955)
Publisher(s)All-American Publications
Eastern Color Printing
Genre(s)Humor

Toonerville Folks (a.k.a. The Toonerville Trolley That Meets All the Trains) was a popular newspaper cartoon feature by Fontaine Fox, which ran from 1908 to 1955. It began in 1908 in the Chicago Post, and by 1913, it was syndicated nationally by the Wheeler Syndicate. From the 1930s on, it was distributed by the McNaught Syndicate.[1]