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.

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

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 ...

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 film adaptation was based on the 1977 Broadway musical of the same name — which, in turn, was based on the Little Orphan Annie comic strip that first debuted in 1924.

The film starred Aileen Marie Quinn as Annie, a 10-year old orphan girl whose character was based on the 1977 Broadway musical, in addition to Little Orphan Annie, a daily comic strip that debuted ...

This is an “Annie” that knows that “Little Orphan Annie” was a comic strip first, and that its young heroine could be hotheaded and childlike but also stoic and sensible and wise beyond ...

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.