Word: caniff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...perilous adventure lay before Terry and the Pirates-and the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate would be right in on it. Milton Caniff, Terry's creator, was going to abandon them for a $100,000-a-year job with Marshall Field; the News Syndicate would have to find a new artist capable of carrying on. Last week, a month before Caniff's contract ran out, the successor was announced...
...mustached, rosy-cheeked George Wunder, 33, formerly an obscure A.P. staff artist. Richard Clarke, executive editor of the Daily News, liked his trial strips best of the samples submitted. What Wunder does with Terry depends, in the beginning at least, on Milton Caniff. Says Clarke: "We've got to see where Caniff is going to wind up. We can't have a sharp break." Caniff had promised only one thing: not to kill off all his characters...
...Tribune. He hunted in Africa with Carl Akeley and Teddy Roosevelt, covered both sides in World War I, always saw to it that his contracts called for long vacations. That gave him spare ime to write books, lend an encouraging land to youngsters like Milton (Terry and the Pirates) Caniff...
...Miss Lace, heroine of artist Milton (Terry and the Pirates') Caniff's lusty, busty cartoon strip Male Call, feature of some 3,000 service newspapers...
...little time for fantasy's ancient, essential job of fusing the creatures of earth and heaven. The best of the rest, like Chester Gould's resourceful, bloodthirsty Dick Tracy, are like entertaining gangster movies that no one would confuse with truth or comedy, or-like Milton Caniff's extraordinarily proficient and accurate Terry and the Pirates-rattling good straight adventure strips...