I found a link with some info about this “Tack” Knight. Interestingly enough, he worked at Disney and Fleischer.

http://lambiek.net/artists/k/knight_tack.htm

So did Walt Disney rip off Tack for his business cards? Or was it the other way around?

Check out the Michigan State University Libraries Reading Room Index to the Comic Art Collection at http://www.lib.msu.edu/comics/rri/krri/knack.htm for their entries on Knight, Tack (Benjamin Thackston)

Benjamin Thackston Knight
Born: Dillsboro, NC. Apr. 4, 1895
Died: San Francisco, Ca. 1977
“Tack” Knight drew the “My Big Brudder”, “Baby Sister” and “Little Folks” comic strips.
He was an assistant on Gene Byrnes’ Reg’lar Fellers from 1924-29.
He also worked at the Disney and Fleischer Studios.
Search this page for “Knight”.

Benjamin Thackston “Tack”Knight was born April 4, 1895 in Dillsboro, North Carolina. By his early 20s he was a cartoonist living in San Francisco. He was working on animated cartoons in the late teens — and likely knew Pinto Colvig who was also animating in town at the time. Tack was honored with The Nation Cartoonists Society’s “Silver T-Square Award” in 1974. He passed away on December 5, 1976 in San Francisco.

Wow, that is old… the plate on “types” would have the ‘politically correct’ crowd all in a tither (Scotchman? Darktown Celebrity?)

Didn’t he work on the first Donald Duck short The Wise Little Hen? A friend has a hand colored model sheet initialled by him.

Because Tack Knight already used the name “Little Folks” in his strip, Charles Schulz had to change the name of his strip to “Peanuts” when it became syndicated.

I got a reproduction copy of this book as a door prize years ago at a cartoonist association meeting I went to. I’ve used bits and pieces of it when I taught cartooning to kids - the style is simple and accessible.

Loved it! Even the politically incorrect stuff tickled me because Tack seems to have been such a good natured guy. A real gem.

I have an original copy given to be by my Grandfather! Thanks Pop.

Actually, a sixth printing from 1923 distributed by Devoe&Raynlds Co.Inc. NY Chicago

I was flipping through Hank Ketcham’s autobiography the other day and he mentions using “Tack” Knight’s Cartoon Tips early on in his career.

I want to download these images in their original size and make them into a PDF, but when I try to download them, I just get a little dot instead of the actual image. This is weird. I can download other images from Flickr with no problem, why can’t I download images from this set?

“TACK”KNIGHT WAS MARRIED TO MY HUSBAND’S AUNT, BERTHA MACDONALD. THEY HAD A DAUGHTER, MARY, WHO DIED AT A YOUNG AGE. AFTER HER DEATH, BERTHA AND “TACK” DIVORCED. WE HAVE SOME OF ORIGINAL HIS ORIGINAL DRAWINGS