'Babe Bunting', from Famous Funnies #24.
Roy L. Williams was an early 20th-century American comic artist who made a realistically-drawn newspaper series, titled 'Babe Bunting' (1935-1940). Not much else is known about him.
Babe Bunting
'Babe Bunting' was syndicated through the Ledger Syndicate from 27 May 1935 until 10 February 1940. The strip is about a little girl called Babe who is abandoned in a movie theater. She is taken in by a kind lady, while a search is organized to find the child's ill mother and her missing locket. Besides publications in newspapers, 'Babe Bunting' was also published in the early comic book 'Famous Funnies' by Eastern Color Printing between 1936 and 1940. In 1937-1938, it also ran in Italian newspapers.
Identity
Some sources credit the artist as the Roy Williams (1907-1976) who worked as an animator and gag writer for The Walt Disney Company from 1930 through the 1960s, known as "The Big Mouseketeer" in the children's TV show 'The Mickey Mouse Club' (1955-1959). A source cited in Allan Holtz' 'American Newspaper Comics' encyclopedia states that Roy L. Williams passed away in October 1938, and episodes of 'Babe Bunting' during its final year-and-a-half were made by Kemp Starrett.