Percy Crosby
Writer, Illustrator, & Cartoonist | Writer
Percy Lee Crosby (December 8, 1891 – December 8, 1964) was an American author, illustrator, and cartoonist best known for his comic strip Skippy. Adapted into movies, a novel and a radio show, Crosby's creation was commemorated on a 1997 US Postal stamp. An inspiration for Charles Schultz's Peanuts the strip is regarded by comics historian Maurice Horn as a "classic... which innovated a number of sophisticated and refined touches used later by Charles Schulz and Bill Waterson". Humorist Corey Ford, writing in Vanity Fair, praised the strip as "America's most important contribution to humor of the century".
Subject ID: 140349
MorePercy Lee Crosby (December 8, 1891 – December 8, 1964) was an American author, illustrator, and cartoonist best known for his comic strip Skippy. Adapted into movies, a novel and a radio show, Crosby's creation was commemorated on a 1997 US Postal stamp. An inspiration for Charles Schultz's Peanuts the strip is regarded by comics historian Maurice Horn as a "classic... which innovated a number of sophisticated and refined touches used later by Charles Schulz and Bill Waterson". Humorist Corey Ford, writing in Vanity Fair, praised the strip as "America's most important contribution to humor of the century".
Subject ID: 140349
Subject ID: 140349
