You might have heard the news this week that Little Orphan Annie is about to expire; or at least, the comic strip will end in June. It was created by Harold Gray way back in the 1920s, and frankly I thought it had disappearewd awhile ago, after Leonard Starr gave it up.
The strip's heyday was probably the 1930s, when Depression era America could simultaneously identify with and be inspired by Gray's plucky heroine. The strip spun off into a popular radio show as well, which you know if you've ever watched
A Christmas Story during the holidays (or any other time for that matter).
I could never quite figure out why Annie lkept winding up on the streets given the patronage of the uber-rich Daddy Warbucks, but I guess that was necessary to keep the melodrama alive.
Now it's just the story of another pop culture icon biting the dust. But it had a nice long run, and I guess revivals of the stage play
Annie will keep the character alive for some time to come.
You might have heard the news this week that Little Orphan Annie is about to expire; or at least, the comic strip will end in June. It was created by Harold Gray way back in the 1920s, and frankly I thought it had disappearewd awhile ago, after Leonard Starr gave it up. 
The strip's heyday was probably the 1930s, when Depression era America could simultaneously identify with and be inspired by Gray's plucky heroine. The strip spun off into a popular radio show as well, which you know if you've ever watched A Christmas Story during the holidays (or any other time for that matter).
I could never quite figure out why Annie lkept winding up on the streets given the patronage of the uber-rich Daddy Warbucks, but I guess that was necessary to keep the melodrama alive.
Now it's just the story of another pop culture icon biting the dust. But it had a nice long run, and I guess revivals of the stage play Annie will keep the character alive for some time to come.
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