Fanny Cory

Who was Fanny Cory?

Fanny Young Cory was an artist and illustrator best known for her comic strip Little Miss Muffet, syndicated by King Features. She did both art and writing on "Sonnysayings." She went by several names: F. Y. Cory, F. Cory Cooney and Fanny Cory Cooney but eventually used Fanny Y. Cory as her professional name. She sometimes used FYC as a signature on her early work.

Born in Waukegan, Illinois, she was 14 when she went art school in Helena, Montana. At the age of 17, she arrived in New York and enrolled at the Art Students League.

She did covers and interior illustrations for Century, Harper's Bazaar, Life, Scribner's, The Saturday Evening Post and St. Nicholas.

The Little Miss Muffet comic book was published in 1948 and 1949 by Best Books.