Leonard Starr

Leonard Starr who was born October 28 1925 was an advertising artist and cartoonist. In 1957 he created the comic strip Mary Perkins, On Stage. Characterized by equal parts soap opera and humor it featured tight slickly realistic graphics and, from the beginning, both a strong sense of design and occasionally daringly adventurous layout and story-telling. In 1979 he revived the comic strip Little Orphan Annie without the Ayn Rand-ish conservative lectures which characterized the original strip. While it was a surprising choice his close attention to line and strong design sense made it a success.

See also: Leonard Starr, 1925, Artist, Ayn Rand, Cartoonist, Comic strip, Comics, Little Orphan Annie, Mary Perkins, On Stage