After 86 years on newspapers’ comic pages, the always youthful Little Orphan Annie ... Sunday’s strip marks Annie‘s final adventure with well-known characters such as her father figure ...

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 ...

It's just too rich a vein (not) to mine." Little Orphan Annie debuted as a comic strip exclusively in the New York Daily News on Aug. 5, 1924. As it grew in popularity, it appeared in more than ...

Unlike the Annie of stage and screen, Maeder said Gray started “Little Orphan Annie” the comic strip with dark and political themes. Maeder said he attempted to stay faithful to that legacy ...

Gray used the Little Orphan Annie comics to spread the gospel of self-reliance and stick-to-it-iveness—in other words, the ...

A chronological reprinting of one of the most important comic strips ... gems? Annie has this enviable problem as the 1940s come to close in Harold Gray’s epic Little Orphan Annie.

Of course, "Annie" also has its own local connection to the Chicago area. Harold Gray, the artist who came up with the cartoon idea for the newspaper comic strip "Little Orphan Annie" in 1924 ...

Gray penned “Little Orphan Annie” while living in Lombard, first on Stewart Avenue and then in that grand Main Street home. His comic strip would take on a life of its own, spawning a radio ...

Daddy Warbucks is in serious trouble. The egg-bald guardian of that ageless comic-strip carrot top, Little Orphan Annie, has been railroaded into a private insane asylum run by one Dr. Le Quaque.

But Annie’s story goes back to 1924 when "Little Orphan Annie" first appeared in a syndicated comic strip. It was the brainchild of a man named Harold Gray, who happened to live in Lombard.

Unlike the Annie of stage and screen, Maeder said Gray started "Little Orphan Annie" the comic strip with dark and political themes. Maeder said he attempted to stay faithful to that legacy ...