Milton Penknife

Milton Arthur Paul Caniff , born the February 28th 1907 with Hillsboro (Ohio) and deceased the May 3rd 1988 with New York is an American author of cartoon .

In 1932, it is engaged by Associated Press to work on the series Dickie Dare , which is used as laboratory with its later series. In 1934, the New York Daily News the recruiting to create a new series, Terry and the pirates, on a suggestion of Joseph Medill Patterson. During the war, it produces, in a voluntary way, a special version of Terry and the Pirates , exclusively intended for the soldiers, whose character of Terry is absent and where a female character named evolves/moves Burma. The Miami Herald, which pays to have the right to publish Terry complains about the existence of this parallel series which is, about the blow, famous Male Cal , a cartoon definitely intended for the adults, that it ceases producing in 1946. The same year, in December, it ceases working on Terry and the pirates of which he is not owner. The next month, it begins its new series, Steve Canyon in Chicago Sun-Times.

Publications

In English

2002 : Milton Penknife: Conversations , of Robert C. Harvey (ED. University Close off the Mississippi)

In French

In the middle of the Eighties, two works and a file of the books of STRIP CARTOONS, made it possible the French-speaking public to make fuller knowledge with Milton Caniff.

1984 : the cartoon according to Milton Penknife , of Rick Marschall and John Paul Adams (ED. Futuropolis)
1985: File Milton Penknife , in Books of the cartoon n°66 of Nov./DEC 85 (ED. Glénat)
1986: Images of China , by Thierry Smolderen (ED. Gilou/Schlirf)

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