Sidney Smith (cartoonist)
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Robert Sidney Smith, known as Sidney Smith, was the creator of the influential comic strip The Gumps, based on an idea by Captain Joseph M. Patterson, editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune.
Portrait circa 1912
Sidney Smith surrounded by letters received in 1929 after he killed The Gumps' Mary Gold, the first character to die in a continuity comic strip
Sidney Smith's The Gumps (March 8, 1925)
Smith's grave at Rosehill Cemetery
Little Orphan Annie
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Little Orphan Annie, also simply known as Annie, was a daily American comic strip created by Harold Gray and syndicated by the Tribune Media Services. The strip took its name from the 1885 poem "Littl
First Little Orphan Annie Sunday page (November 2, 1924)
The first strip of Annie's test run, published on August 5, 1924.
Leonard Starr's Little Orphan Annie
Members of the original Broadway cast for Annie: Andrea McArdle as Annie, Reid Shelton as Daddy Warbucks, and Sandy