Milton Caniff produced adventure comic strips for over half a century. He is regarded by many as one of the best writer-artists to work in the genre, and in the 1980s was one of the few surviving... Read full biography
Milton Caniff produced adventure comic strips for over half a century. He is regarded by many as one of the best writer-artists to work in the genre, and in the 1980s was one of the few surviving practitioners of that demanding craft. During a good part of his long career, he set the standards... Read full biography
Milton Caniff produced adventure comic strips for over half a century. He is regarded by many as one of the best writer-artists to work in the genre, and in the 1980s was one of the few surviving practitioners of that demanding craft. During a good part of his long career, he set the standards against which the competition has since been measured. After beginning with Dickie Dare, Caniff went on to draw two major strips, Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon. Milton Arthur Paul Caniff was an... Read full biography
Milton Caniff produced adventure comic strips for over half a century. He is regarded by many as one of the best writer-artists to work in the genre, and in the 1980s was one of the few surviving practitioners of that demanding craft. During a good part of his long career, he set the standards against which the competition has since been measured. After beginning with Dickie Dare, Caniff went on to draw two major strips, Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon. Milton Arthur Paul Caniff was an only child, born in Hillsboro, Ohio. From that small Midwestern town, where he spent his first 10 years, came several of the influences that shaped his life. His father worked in the print shop of the local newspaper, and Caniff, who went to work in a... Read full biography
Milton Caniff produced adventure comic strips for over half a century. He is regarded by many as one of the best writer-artists to work in the genre, and in the 1980s was one of the few surviving practitioners of that demanding craft. During a good part of his long career, he set the standards against which the competition has since been measured. After beginning with Dickie Dare, Caniff went on to draw two major strips, Terry and the Pirates and Steve Canyon. Milton Arthur Paul Caniff was an only child, born in Hillsboro, Ohio. From that small Midwestern town, where he spent his first 10 years, came several of the influences that shaped his life. His father worked in the print shop of the local newspaper, and Caniff, who went to work in a newspaper art department at 14, thought of himself as basically a newspaperman all his life. The Sigma Chi fraternity, which Caniff join... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (16)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
100 Years of American Newspaper Comics An Illustrated Encyclopedia
1996
Horn, Maurice (editor)
414 pages (color)
The History of Aircraft Nose Art: 1916 to Today
1991
Ethell, Jeffrey; Clarence Simonsen, Don Allen
192 pages (color)
The Encyclopedia of American Comics From 1897 to the Present
1990
Goulart, Ron (Editor)
408 pages (color)
The Smithsonian Collection of Newspaper Comics
1988
Blackbeard, Bill and Martin Williams
334 pages (color)
Great Cartoonists And Their Art
1987
Wood, Art
192 pages
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
The Adventurous Decade Comic Strips in the Thirties
1975
Goulart, Ron
224 pages
Classic Comics & Their Creators Life Stories of American Cartoonists
1973
Sheridan, Martin
304 pages
Comic Art in America
1959
Becker, Stephen
387 pages
The Comics
1947
Waugh, Coulton
360 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index