Sullivan, Edmund Joseph (1869 – 1933)

Edmund Joseph Sullivan original cartoon artwork

E. J. Sullivan, was a British book illustrator who worked in a style which merged the British tradition of illustration from the 1860s with aspects of Art Nouveau. Sullivan worked at the Daily Graphic from the age of nineteen, moving to the Pall Mall Magazine in 1893. During this period he produced standard news and portrait illustrations, but began to work on illustrations to literature at the Magazine. He also illustrated Tom Brown's Schooldays. Later books include The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, first published in 1913 and in many subsequent editions. Here, among many fanciful and beautiful black-and-white drawings, he used images of skeletons and animated pots. Sullivan also used his skills of satire in 1916 in a collection of wartime designs called the Kaiser's Garland, which attacked Prussian militarism.