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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO – CHICAGO (AP) — The iconic redheaded orphan Annie is ending her time on newspaper comics pages after 85 years. Tribune Media Services announced Thursday that it will cease syndication ...

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 ...

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 ...

Based on the popular comic strip and adapted from the Tony Award ... With equal measures of pluck and positivity, little orphan Annie charms everyone's hearts despite a next-to-nothing start ...

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 ...