Arthur Burdett Frost, usually cited as A. B. Frost, was an American illustrator, graphic artist, painter and comics writer. He is best known for his illustrations of Brer Rabbit and other characters in the Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus books.
A.B. Frost tombstone in Laurel Hill Cemetery
Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby from the 1895 version of Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings
Rail Shooting, by A B Frost from Shooting Pictures, by Scribner & Sons (1895)
Front Cover of The Golfer's Alphabet (1898)
Br'er Rabbit is a central figure in an oral tradition passed down by African-Americans of the Southern United States and African descendants in the Caribbean, notably Afro-Bahamians and Turks and Caicos Islanders. He is a trickster who succeeds by his wits rather than by brawn, provoking authority figures and bending social mores as he sees fit. Popular adaptations of the character, originally recorded by Joel Chandler Harris in the 19th century, include Walt Disney Productions' Song of the South in 1946.
Br'er Rabbit and the Tar-Baby, drawing by E. W. Kemble from "The Tar-Baby", by Joel Chandler Harris, 1904
Br'er Rabbit's dream, from Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881
The African savanna hare (Lepus microtis) found in many regions on the African continent: the original Br'er Rabbit.
Eatonton, Georgia's statue of Br'er Rabbit
