Document Type
Article
Date
Spring 1980
Keywords
Syracuse University Special Collections, Ray Thompson, cartoonists, comic strips, Buzz Sawyer, Wash Tubbs, Les Turner, Captain Easy
Language
English
Disciplines
American Art and Architecture | American Popular Culture
Description/Abstract
The newspaper comic strip was well established in the United States by World War I. It had become a part of every American's cultural background long before the Disney cartoon films of the 1930s. The George Arents Research Library for Special Collections at Syracuse University has a large collection of original drawings for comic strips. There are cartoons from the early days of the comic strip to the work of artists still drawing strips which many Americans read every day.
Some of the comic strips have extraordinary lives, continuing past their creator's lifetimes. Buzz Sawyer and his friend Roscoe Sweeney survive their creator, Roy Crane, evolving with the times and becoming almost real to their readers.
Recommended Citation
Thompson, Ray. "Roy Crane—Pioneer Adventure Strip Cartoonist." The Courier 17.1 (1980): 3-13.
Source
local input
