Be Joyful Dancer

White illustration of two figures dancing on a dark blue background with white text along the bottom edge.

Illustrator Thomas E. Powers (1870-1939) is known as the first American to draw a color comic strip for a newspaper, the New York Evening World. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, educated in Kansas City, Missouri, and worked briefly in Chicago, Illinois before moving to New York City in 1894. His most well-known comic is "Joy and Gloom" and features a character named Joy.