Harold Gray

Harold Lincoln Gray ( born January 20, 1894 in Kankakee, Illinois, † May 9, 1968 in La Jolla, California ) was an American comic book artist. He became famous for his comic strip Little Orphan Annie.

After completing his military service, Gray worked as a graphic artist for the Chicago Tribune, where he led the series The Gumps by Sidney Smith letterte 1921-1924. On August 5, 1924, he competed in the New York Daily News, the story of the little orphan girl Little Orphan Annie, originally made ​​with a male protagonist and Little Orphan Otto could mean. The strips were rapidly spreading across the country and the first albums released in the year 1926.

Other graphic activities of Gray were the comic series Private Lives, which he recorded in 1931 and 1932, and the Little Orphan Annie offshoot Maw Green, who started on 1 January 1933 and was relatively short-lived. In addition, he supported from 1933 to 1946 his assistant and cousin Ed Leffingwell in the series Little Joe, when he wrote the lyrics and in the drawings, especially the faces, helped. Little Orphan Annie Gray drew until his death in 1968.