Frank DobiasFrank Dobias.

Franz August Rudolph de Santis Dobiáš (May 11, 1900, January 10, 1976), known as Frank Dobias, was an Austrian-born American illustrator of children's books. Among many other works, his illustrations for the Japanese version of Little Black Sambo made the book a bestseller in Japan, selling well over a million copies between 1953 and 1988.