# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roy-crane
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:13:15.390Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roy-crane"
name: "Roy Crane"
slug: "roy-crane"
description: "Royston Campbell Crane, who signed his work Roy Crane, was an American cartoonist who created the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy and Buz Sawyer. He pioneered the adventure comic strip, establishing the conventions and artistic approach of that genre. Comics historian R. C. Harvey wrote, \"Many of those who drew the earliest adventure strips were inspired and influenced by his work.\""
tagline: "American cartoonist (1901-1977)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/89/Roy_Crane_%28self-portrait%29.gif"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1901-11-22"
deathDate: "1977-07-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.08
  momentum:             0.8656716417910449
  historical:           9.613104
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Roy Crane"
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    title: "روي كرين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Crane"
    title: "Roy Crane"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Crane"
    title: "Roy Crane"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Crane"
    title: "Roy Crane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Crane"
    title: "Roy Crane"
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  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Crane"
    title: "Roy Crane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Crane"
    title: "Roy Crane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Crane"
    title: "Roy Crane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Crane"
    title: "Roy Crane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Crane"
    title: "Roy Crane"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2116532"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump