Snippet: The Kewpie Doll was the creation of Rose Cecil O'NEILL (1874-1944), a gifted artist who introduced the Kewpies in 1909 as a cartoon in "Ladies' Home Journal." The Kewpies were cherubic characters whose name derived from "Cupid." They proved immensely popular and soon commanded page-long adventures in women's magazines. O'Neill designed a hugely popular Kewpie Doll that she patented in 1913. All told, she earned over a million dollars in royalties before the Kewpie craze dwindled in the 1930s.