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Caniff and continued
Caniff continued Male Call until seven months after V-J Day, ending it in March 1946.
Caniff nonetheless continued to enjoy enormous regard in the profession and in newspapering, and he produced the strip until his death in 1988.
Caniff continued Male Call until seven months after V-J Day, bringing it to a conclusion on March 3, 1946.

Caniff and Gilfeather
: Knock-offs, such as Associated Press's Mister Gilfeather ( which, by the way, was handled at various times by both Al Capp and Milton Caniff, before they hit it big with Li ' l Abner and Terry & the Pirates, respectively ), began to proliferate.

Caniff and until
Launched shortly after Caniff retired from his previous strip, Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon ran from January 13, 1947 until June 4, 1988, shortly after Caniff's death.

Caniff and spring
In the spring of 1934, Caniff changed the strip from fantasy to " reality " when Dickie no longer dreamed his adventures but experienced them as he traveled the world with a freelance writer, Dickie's adult mentor, " Dynamite Dan " Flynn.

Caniff and 1933
In July 1933, Caniff began an adventure fantasy strip, Dickie Dare, influenced by series such as Flash Gordon and Brick Bradford.
Sickles followed Caniff, creator of the Terry and the Pirates comic strip, to New York City in 1933, where both men initially worked as staff artists for the Associated Press.

Caniff and when
According to Capp ’ s longtime friend Milton Caniff, Capp was “ charming ” when he chose to be, but he added, “ He could be very difficult if he didn ’ t like you .” Frank Frazetta described Capp as " exasperating, infuriating, domineering, obnoxious, loud, lots of fun, acidic and lovable.
And when Caniff, growing more and more frustrated with the lack of rights to the comic strip he produced, was offered the chance to own his own strip by Marshall Field, publisher of the Chicago Sun, the cartoonist left Terry to produce a strip for Field Enterprises.
In 1946, when Milton Caniff left Terry and the Pirates, there were about 100 artists who applied for the job, according to Caniff.

Caniff and was
Although Capp's endorsement activities never rivaled Li ' l Abner's or Fearless Fosdick's, he was a celebrity spokesman in print ads for Sheaffer Snorkel fountain pens ( along with colleagues and close friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ), and — with an irony that would become apparent later — a brand of cigarettes, ( Chesterfield ).
Goldberg was elected president with Russell Patterson as vice president, C. D. Russell as secretary and Milton Caniff, treasurer.
At that first meeting there was Al Capp, Walt Kelly, Alex Raymond, Ernie Bushmiller, Milton Caniff, all of them just sitting there, big as life.
The ceremony was headed by retired Brigadier General Jimmy Stewart, and a portrait of Chennault by cartoonist Milton Caniff was unveiled.
Terry and the Pirates was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff.
He vanishes from the strip and a Christmas, 1945 strip has Caniff saying he based the character on a pilot friend, Frank Cliff, who was killed in Shanghai and " Dude died with him.
Caniff became increasingly concerned by the contemporary Second Sino-Japanese War, but he was prevented by his syndicate from identifying the Japanese directly.
Originally starring the beautiful adventuress Burma, it was racier than the regular strip, and complaints caused Caniff to rename it Male Call to avoid confusion.
Although Terry and the Pirates had made Caniff famous, the strip was owned by the syndicate, which was not uncommon at the time.
Terry and the Pirates was a radio serial adapted from the comic strip of the same name created in 1934 by Milton Caniff.
Milton Arthur Paul Caniff ( February 28, 1907 – April 3, 1988 ) was an American cartoonist famous for the Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon comic strips.
Caniff was born in Hillsboro, Ohio.
Graduating in 1930, Caniff began at the Columbus Dispatch where he worked with the noted cartoonist Billy Ireland, but Caniff's position was eliminated during the Great Depression.
In 1934, Caniff was hired by the New York Daily News to produce a new strip for the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate.
Daily News publisher Joseph Medill Patterson wanted an adventure strip set in the mysterious Orient, what Patterson described as " the last outpost for adventure ," Knowing almost nothing about China, Caniff researched the nation's history and learned about families for whom piracy was a way of life passed down over the generations.
The result was Terry and the Pirates, the strip which made Caniff famous.
But Caniff's most memorable creation was the Dragon Lady, a pirate queen ; she was seemingly ruthless and calculating, but Caniff encouraged his readers to think she had romantic yearnings for Pat Ryan.
Caniff donated all of his work on this strip to the armed forces — the strip was only available in military newspapers.
Her function, Caniff often said, was to remind service men what they were fighting for, and while the situations in the strip brimmed with ' double entendre ', Miss Lace was not, as far as she appeared in the strip, a loose woman, but she " knew the score.

Caniff and which
A lifelong chain-smoker, he happily plugged Chesterfield cigarettes ; he appeared in Schaeffer fountain pen ads with his friends Milton Caniff and Walt Kelly ; pitched the Famous Artists School ( in which he had a financial interest ) along with Caniff, Rube Goldberg, Virgil Partch, Willard Mullin and Whitney Darrow, Jr ; and, though a professed teetotaler, he personally endorsed Rheingold Beer, among other products.
Seeking creative control, Caniff negotiated with Field Enterprises for a new strip on which he could retain ownership.
Milton Caniff credited Patterson for suggesting a comic strip about the Orient, which led to the creation of Caniff's Terry and the Pirates.

Caniff and produced
During the 12 years that Caniff produced the strip, he introduced many fascinating characters, most of whom were " pirates " of one kind or another.
Caniff produced his last strip of Terry and the Pirates in December 1946 and introduced his new strip Steve Canyon in the Chicago Sun-Times the following month.

Caniff and left
Seeking creative control of his own work, Caniff left the strip in 1946, his last Terry strip being published on December 29.

Caniff and 1934
Examples include Little Orphan Annie ( drawn and plotted by Harold Gray from 1924 to 1944 and thereafter by a succession of artists including Leonard Starr and Andrew Pepoy ), and Terry and The Pirates, started by Milton Caniff in 1934 and picked up by George Wunder.

Caniff and .
Note the reference to Milton Caniff.
Before leaving, he met Milton Caniff, and the two became lifelong friends.
Milton Caniff offered another anecdote ( from Phi Beta Pogo, 1989 ) involving Capp and Walt Kelly, " two boys from Bridgeport, Connecticut, nose to nose ," onstage at a meeting of the Newspaper Comics Council in the sixties.
" Lazarus went on to cite Capp as one of the " four essentials " in the field of newspaper cartoonists, along with Walt Kelly, Charles Schulz and Milton Caniff.
* 1907 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist ( d. 1988 )
Essentially self-taught, Kirby cited among his influences the comic strip artists Milton Caniff, Hal Foster, and Alex Raymond, as well as such editorial cartoonists as C. H. Sykes, " Ding " Darling, and Rollin Kirby.
“ She practically ran the damn thing ,” Caniff recalled.
L to r: Bill Mauldin, Don Sherwood, Mort Walker, Lyndon B. Johnson, Milton Caniff and George Wunder.
The group included Caniff, Bill Mauldin and Mort Walker.
The Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award is awarded by unanimous vote of the NCS Board of Directors.
* February 28 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist ( d. 1988 )
* April 3 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist ( b. 1907 )
Pratt has cited authors like Robert Louis Stevenson, James Oliver Curwood, Zane Gray, Kenneth Roberts, Joseph Conrad, Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville and Jack London as influences, along with cartoonists Lyman Young, Will Eisner, and especially Milton Caniff.
He drew Willie and Joe only a few times afterwards: for the funerals of Omar Bradley and George C. Marshall, both of them considered " soldiers ' generals "; for a Life Magazine article on the " New Army "; and to memorialize fellow cartoonist Milton Caniff.

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