Gregg, I tried to identify L.W.M. a while back when I put that cartoon online in a collection of Twain political cartoons. The only person with those initials listed in the index of Paul P. Somers, Jr., _Editorial Cartooning and Caricature: A Reference Guide_ (Greenwood, 1998) is Lillian Weckner Meissner. She is mentioned in the text as being one of the cartoonists included in an exhibit on "Women Practitioners of the 'Ungentlemanly Art'" at Ohio State University (1989). The catalog for the exhibit was published as _1989 Festival of Cartoon Art_, but I haven't seen that yet. I haven't been able to find anything else about her. It's very possible that her career started later. There were not many female cartoonists in 1900, and she's not mentioned in the discussion of early cartoonists in Alice Sheppard's _Cartooning for Suffrage_. Ohio State University has a Cartoon Research Library and they could probably provide information about her, but they charge for research services: http://www.lib.ohio-state.edu/cgaweb/research.htm Jim Zwick