Ralph A. Wolfe

Ralph Wolfe was an animator and artist of newspaper features in the 1920s and 1930s. Ralph Allison Wolfe was born in Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, Oklahoma into a family of Caucasian and Cherokee origins. By the 1920s he was a cartoonist in the moving pictures industry. He was a longtime animator for Disney, Warner Bros and Fleischer.

In the late 1920s he moved from Los Angeles to New York City to work on a number of newspaper strips, such as 'The Outline of Polar Exploration' (1928), 'The Pioneers' (which he took over from Lovrien Gregory, 1928-29), 'Sancho and the Don' (1930) and 'Animal Wise Cracks' (1929-30). Wolfe free-lanced in the comic book industry during the 1940s into the early 1950s.