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R.C. Harvey says it all in
the best article on Roy Crane that I have ever read:
http://www.adventurestrips.com/washtubbs/
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...and some more Roy Crane links to peruse: http://lambiek.net/artists/c/crane_r.htm http://www.stevestiles.com/crane.htm http://www.adventurestrips.com/washtubbs/ http://greatest.cartoonist.ever.com/
Very cool 1938 newspaper article (via Google News archives) on my favorite cartoonist, Roy Crane. Roy Crane pretty much invented the adventure comic strip, and his lively drawings and storytelling were the main influence on cartoonists such as Harvey Kurtzman, Charles Schulz, Wally Wood and John Severin.
from Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Nov 25, 1938 
If you’ve never seen all the scanned newspapers in the Google News archives, click on one of the images above and start exploring! I can’t even describe all the treasures you can find ^_^ Have fun!
More on cartoonist Roy Crane
Roy Crane practically created the adventure comic strip with his fantastic Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer comic strips. Roy Crane combined breakneck action and nail-biting suspense with a bigfoot cartoony style that produced a timeless classic strip that would influence the biggest names in 20th century cartoon art, including Milton Caniff, Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman and Charles Schulz.
http://Greatest.Cartoonist.Ever.com/
http://www.adventurestrips.com/washtubbs/
...and some more Roy Crane links to peruse:
http://www.reuben.org/ncs/members/memorium/crane.jpg
http://lambiek.net/artists/c/crane_r.htm
http://www.stevestiles.com/crane.htm
http://www.adventurestrips.com/washtubbs/
http://greatest.cartoonist.ever.com/
