Artists who illustrated in the CEREAL WARS

BREAKFAST CEREAL, as we know it today, was an invention of millers around the turn of the last century.

Advertisers put illustrators to work painting adults and mostly children scarfing down all kinds of grains in all kinds of shapes. The idea of pouring milk on a bowl of cereal was a convenient and appealing answer to the problem of breakfast. Here's some of the artists who succeeded in making it an everyday fixture of our mornings.

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