A Saturday Offering


 Wallace Tripp weighs in on Little Orphan Annie.


Little Orphan Annie, July 2 1967.

Drawn by Harold Gray, Annie battled communists, saboteurs, murderers, labor unions, Roosevelt, you name it, the strip became increasingly right wing in tone and outlook.  It continued after Gray's death in 1968 until 2010.  I read it when I was a kid in Dallas.  Annie's dog is named Sandy.
'In 1956, a sequence about juvenile delinquency, drug addiction, switchblades, prostitutes, crooked cops, and the ties between teens and adult gangsters unleashed a firestorm of criticism from unions, the clergy and intellectuals with 30 newspapers cancelling the strip. The syndicate ordered Gray to drop the sequence and develop another adventure'. (Wikipedia).
 
Harold Lincoln Gray, January 20, 1894 – May 9, 1968.

 

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