Udo J. Keppler (April 4, 1872 - July 4, 1956) was an American political cartoonist, Native American advocate, and publisher, known as Joseph Keppler Jr. beginning in 1894. The son of Joseph Keppler (1838 - 1894), the founder of Puck magazine, he was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and graduated from the Columbia Institute in 1888. Between 1890 and 1891, Keppler studied in Germany, and worked for Puck from 1890 until 1914. He contributed cartoons to the magazine beginning that year and became a co-owner of the magazine after his father's death in 1894. He changed his name to Joseph Keppler Jr. after he inherited his father's position at the magazine. He sold Puck in December 1913, and stayed on as art director for another four months. After the sale of Puck, Keppler contributed to Judge and Leslie's Weekly until 1915, and retired in 1920. He moved to La Jolla, California, in 1946 where he died ten years later. He married Louise (Lulu) Eva Bechtel, a match opposed by his mother and sister, on April 4, 1895. More by this mapmaker...

John Samuel Pughe (June 3, 1870 - April 19, 1909) was a Welsh-American cartoonist best known for his contributions to Puck magazine in the 1890s and early 1900s. After studying at Cooper Union, he began to illustrate news stories for the New York Recorder, Brooklyn Life and other publications in New York. In 1894, he began as a regular contributor to Puck, a relationship that would continue until health issues hampered his output soon before his death. Learn More...

Jacob Ottmann (March 4, 1849 - November 5, 1889) was a Prussian-American lithographer active New York during in the second half late 19th century. Ottmann was born in Meisenheim, Germany. He came to the United States in July of 1863 and was naturalized as U.S. Citizen on October 19, 1876. Ottmann, already a trained lithographer, joined Vincent Mayer and August Merket, 'Mayer and Merket,' around 1869. By 1874, Ottmann had built up enough equity and became a partner, with the firm changing its imprint to 'Mayer, Merkel and Ottmann'. The concern specialized in highly graphic color printed trade cards, and, by the 1800s, were a major American lithographic firm. Mayer and Merkel retired in 1885, leaving the firm to Ottmann, who renamed it 'J. Ottmann Lithographic' and in 1886 relocated to the Puck Building at 39 E. Houston Street. Ottmann must have begun to show signs of ill-health around 1888, when he composed and filed his will. In the following year, 1889, he applied for a passport to return to the Vaterland for a 'brief visit', but apparently never made it, dying shortly after receiving his passport. He is interred at Greenwood cemetery. After Ottmann's death in 1890, the firm was taken over by his son, William Ottmann, who shunted day to day management to Frank A. Bloom (1855 - 1901). Bloom ran the firm until his death in 1901, when it was acquired and became part of the United States Printing and Lithographing Company. Learn More...