To me this is an exceedingly appealing 1935 page by the 22 year old Walt Kelly — exhibiting influence by Harrison Cady and perhaps other cartoonists who were drawing scenes akin to this.
These characters are prescient of Kelly's later drawings of Brownies and fairy tale little folk.
Here's a little blurb about Kelly from way back, either from Time or Newsweek. One has to wonder how he would have handled our current mess if he was alive, kicking and inking now (oh, if only).
My name is Thom Buchanan.
I'm an artist and photographer.
People are my favorite subjects to portray in art and photos. My wife (and studio partner) has called that my 'people skills', as I've been passionately creating portrait studies for many years.
I refer to myself as a pictorialist, a combination of image-making and journalist. Images are my life.