The Caniff estate has retained special effects artist John R. Ellis to convert to DVDs the 34 episodes of Steve Canyon the 1958-59 NBC television series starring Dean Fredericks in the title role.

Capp is often associated with two other giants of the medium: Milton Caniff ( Terry and the Pirates, Steve Canyon ) and Walt Kelly ( Pogo ).

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.

* 1946: Milton Caniff, Terry and the Pirates

* Terry and the Pirates ( comic strip ), the comic strip created by Milton Caniff

Terry and the Pirates was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff.

In 1946, Caniff won the first Cartoonist of the Year Award from the National Cartoonists Society for his work on Terry and the Pirates.

The intensely patriotic Caniff, who donated design and illustration work to the military, created a free variant of Terry and the Pirates for the military newspaper Stars and Stripes.

Although Terry and the Pirates had made Caniff famous, the strip was owned by the syndicate, which was not uncommon at the time.

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

NBM, under its Flying Buttress Comics Library line, reprinted all of the Caniff Terry strips ( 10 / 22 / 34 to 12 / 29 / 46 ) in two hardcover series as well as in a series of trade paperbacks.

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.

The result was Terry and the Pirates, the strip which made Caniff famous.

During the war, Caniff began a second strip, a special version of Terry and the Pirates without Terry but featuring the blonde bombshell, Burma.

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.

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.

Among his writings on the subject are an introduction to Terry and the Pirates: Volume Two by Milton Caniff ( 2007 ), and an introductory text for a revised version of Al Hirschfeld's The Speakeasies of 1932 ( 2003 ).

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.

By 1946, Caniff had developed a worldwide reputation for his syndicated Terry and the Pirates.

The last Caniff episode of Terry and the Pirates appeared in December 1946, and then George Wunder took over the strip.

In 1946, when Milton Caniff left Terry and the Pirates, there were about 100 artists who applied for the job, according to Caniff.

: 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.

For CNS, Caniff created a unique version of his Terry and the Pirates, completely different in content from his regular daily and Sunday strips for the Chicago Tribune Syndicate.

The 26 founding members came from the group of 32 members who had paid dues by March 13, including strip cartoonists Wally Bishop ( Muggs and Skeeter ), Martin Branner ( Winnie Winkle ), Ernie Bushmiller ( Nancy ), Milton Caniff, Gus Edson ( The Gumps ), Ham Fisher ( Joe Palooka ), Harry Haenigsen ( Penny ), Fred Harman ( Red Ryder ), Bill Holman ( Smokey Stover ), Jay Irving ( Willie Doodle ), Stan MacGovern ( Silly Milly ), Al Posen ( Sweeney and Son ), Clarence Russell ( Pete the Tramp ), Otto Soglow ( The Little King ), Jack Sparling ( Claire Voyant ), Raeburn Van Buren ( Abbie an ' Slats ), Dow Walling ( Skeets ) and Frank Willard ( Moon Mullins ).

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