But their efforts proved unpopular, and Annie originals left the comics pages in 1974: Reruns of Gray's work took up residence on newspaper pages. When the 1977 Broadway adaptation became a smash ...

Facing a shifting media landscape, Tribune Media Services has decided to bring an end to the comic strip Annie are more than 86 years.

After 86 years on newspapers' comic pages, the always youthful Little Orphan Annie, who's survived a jail in North Korea, repeated kidnappings, accusations of murder, gangsters and even the death ...

This image provided May 26, 2010 by Tribune Media Services Inc., shows the character Annie from the "Annie" comic strip. It is an early black and white drawing by the strip's creator and ...

Nowadays, the Little Orphan Annie comics that Harold Gray drew from Aug. 5, 1924, through his death in 1968 are less ...

CHICAGO - Come this summer there will be no more tomorrows for "Annie." After 85 years, Tribune Media Services announced Thursday that it will cease syndication of the comic strip featuring the ico… ...

CHICAGO — Come this summer there will be no more tomorrows for “Annie.” After 85 years, Tribune Media Services announced today that it will cease syndication of the comic strip featuring the ...

Little Orphan Annie may be famous in comic strips and movies, but she was first near and dear to the hearts of a Hancock ...

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.

“Orphan Annie ‘splains ‘bout new home” read the headline in a Chicago newspaper. Along with her scruffy sidekick, the comic strip character appeared not in the funny pages but in the real ...

The 1977 musical, later made into a 1982 film, is based on Harold Gray's "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year.