Peter Newell (1862 - 1924) was an American illustrator and cartoonist, creator of the comic strip The Naps of Polly (1905-1906). He made illustrations of classics, such as Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll, but he also created his own books (The Book of the Hole, The Book of the Rocket or The Inclined Book, several times reissued). His masterpiece, however, is the comic strip Polly's Naps, aimed at a child audience, was published in the New York Herald, which also included Gustave Verbeek and Winsor McCay, between 1906 and 1907. A strip that has been compared with early comic masterpieces such as Little Nemo or Dreams of a Rarebit Fiend, by the great Winsor McCay.