Biography:

Charles Nelan was born in 1858 in Ohio.  In 1888, he began working as a cartoonist for the Cleveland Press.  He later worked at the New York Herald where he published a series of cartoons about the Spanish-American War .  He began working for the North American in 1901 and drew a series of unflattering cartoons about Samuel Pennypacker.  His cartoons prompted the State Legislature to pass an anti-cartoon bill in 1903 which prohibited cartoonists from depicting politicians as animals, birds, insects, fish, or any non-human creature.  The unpopular law was never enforced and was repealed in 1907.  Nelan also worked for the New York Globe.  He died in 1904.