'The Latest News From Bugville'.
Paul Bransom was an early 20th-century animal and wildlife illustrator and painter, born in Washington DC. He left school at age 13 and became an apprentice draftsman. He spent a lot of his free time at the Washington Zoo sketching the animals. Bransom went to New York and took a job with the New York Evening Journal, where he took on the comic strip 'The Latest News from Bugville' between 1903 and 1912. During his long career, Bransom has illustrated nearly 50 books on wildlife subjects.