Allen Saunders

John Allen Saunders ( born March 24, 1899 according to other sources: April 24, 1899 in Hoosier, Indiana, United States, † January 28, 1986 in Maumee, Ohio, United States) was an American comic book writer and signatory.

Life and work

Saunders learned to draw by correspondence course and then studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and at Wabash College, where he attained a degree in 1920. His first cartoons he drew, after he had spent seven years working as a French teacher. His first comic strip ( The Great Gusto ) Saunders wrote to the drawings of Elmer Woggon in 1936. Later it was renamed The Great Gusto first in Big Chief Wahoo and then Steve Roper. In 1940, Saunders took over from Martha Orr eight years earlier created the strip Apple Mary, which was renamed the Mary Worth 's Family and drawn by Orr's former assistant Dale Conner on. The Strip, which was supervised by Saunders to the year 1979, was renamed in 1942 in Mary Worth. In addition to the work on Mary Worth Saunders delivered from 1943 to 1971 the lyrics to the drawn by Alfred Andriola strip Kerry Drake. In collaboration with the artist Al McWilliams 1968 Saunders ' third series was titled Dateline: Danger. Saunders ' son John took over his father's work after it abandoned for reasons of age the texts.