This is Dorothy Parrington posing as Miss Lace. You may also notice Milton Caniff at the drawing board. During WW II, Caniff did a strip called MALE CALL for US military newspapers, donating it free of charge. All the examples I've seen of MALE CALL are funny and rather sweet, rather than raunchy. Miss Lace was some sort of hostess helping to raise ( Read more... )

A surreal bit of crossover from March 9, 1947. Milton Caniff has left TERRY AND THE PIRATES to start his new STEVE CANYON strip (which he will own and make much money from, no fool he). Oddly enough, Caniff wants to find a spot for a favorite character, so he brings Col. Phil Cochran to be interviewed by Capp. Things get more metaphysically twisted ( Read more... )

Milton Caniff's strip MALE CALL ran in armed forces papers during WW II, and it may well have had more readers than any other strip in history (especially when you consider each issue of a service paper got passed around).


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This was produced in 1942 by Milton Caniff of TERRY AND THE PIRATES, as part of a booklet for US Army and Navy servicemen going to China. This page was not included in later reprints, though, so it seems not to have gone over too well. Its information seems so simplistic and inaccurate that today the reaction is usually "not knowing whether to ( Read more... )

A classic Sunday TERRY AND THE PIRATES page from 1942. Caniff was a master of silent final panel.


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It's really too bad "Dragon Lady" has become an automatic pejorative for any strong, attractive Asian woman or even any dominant female executive or politician. Here is the real thing, as awesome as ever. It's August 1940. The Japanese army is berserk in China -- pillaging, looting, raping and killing.There are a lot of Chinese bandits taking ( Read more... )

Excellent art and storytelling from one of the masters. This haunting page appeared December 29, 1946 (thus the New Year's poster in the last panel). It was Milton Caniff's farewell to his strip, which would be taken over by George Wunder (who was okay but uninspired). Caniff was starting his own strip, STEVE CANYON, which he would own and get a ( Read more... )

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