But even with timely story lines, public interest in newspaper comic adventures faded decades ago. Fewer than 20 newspapers ran the strip at ... they came off Little Orphan Annie," says Randy ...

From 1924 to 2010, cartoonist Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie comic strip presented the adventures ... his hand creating his own. Believing a character who had no allegiance to family or ...

After 86 years on newspapers’ comic pages ... to end Little Orphan Annie’s run as newspapers continue to shrink and audiences shift to other forms of media. Sunday’s strip marks Annie ...

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Today marks the end of the line for the once wildly-popular comic strip featuring Little ... Orphan Annie" was part soap opera, part soap box. Conservative cartoonist Harold Gray used his ...

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 ... N.M., said the character received a modern makeover about 10 years ago ...

Little Orphan Annie, the long-running comic strip character, will soon end her run in physical newspapers. Tribune Media Services, which puts out the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," announced ...

Nowadays, the Little Orphan Annie comics that ... “one long supperless week” when Annie sticks up for herself. But in the ...

Along with her scruffy sidekick, the comic strip character appeared ... A Hundred Years of Little Orphan Annie,” traces the evolution of the character from her 1924 debut in the New York Daily ...

The egg-bald guardian of that ageless comic-strip carrot top, Little Orphan ... prison,” says Annie, after casing the place and discovering that patients, as another strip character puts it ...

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.