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Little Orphan Annie was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem " Little Orphant Annie " by James Whitcomb Riley , and it made its debut on August 5, 1924, in the New York Daily News .
May 9, 1968. (1968-05-09) (aged 74) La Jolla, California, U.S. Area (s) Cartoonist. Notable works. Little Orphan Annie. Harold Lincoln Gray (January 20, 1894 – May 9, 1968) was an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the newspaper comic strip Little Orphan Annie .
May 9, 2024 · Harold Gray (born January 20, 1894, Kankakee, Illinois, U.S.—died May 9, 1968, La Jolla, California) was an American cartoonist and creator of “ Little Orphan Annie ,” one of the most popular comic strips of all time. After graduating from Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, in 1917, Gray joined the staff of the Chicago Tribune, to ...
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Little Orphan Annie, American newspaper comic strip depicting the adventures of a plucky street urchin. Little Orphan Annie enjoyed an extraordinarily long life in newspapers, on stage, and in film. Making her first appearance on Aug. 5, 1924, Annie—who was conceived as an 11-year-old escapee from.
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Jun 15, 2023 · The complete Little Orphan Annie : Gray, Harold, 1894-1968 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive.
Aug 3, 2020 · From the very first strip, which debuted today, ninety six years ago in the New York Daily News, Harold Gray established the emotional tenor that would distinguish Little Orphan Annie. Compared to the elaborate and carefully-conceived novel-length narratives Gray created in the 1930s and 1940s, the early Annie strips might seem a bit crude: the ...
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Apr 30, 2018 · From 1924 to 2010, cartoonist Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie comic strip presented the adventures of a plucky young girl with empty pupils who fell in and out of trouble at home and...
