Percy Crosby

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American cartoonist

United States WritersLived 1891 to 1964 · aged 73

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Percy Lee Crosby was an American author, illustrator and cartoonist best known for his comic strip Skippy. S. Postal Service stamp. An inspiration for Charles Schulz's Peanuts, the strip is regarded by comics historian Maurice Horn as a "classic...

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Panel from The Clancy Kids, 1919

Cover art for Judge, 27 Dec 1924

Percy Crosby's topper strip, Always Belittlin' (October 6, 1935), ran above Skippy

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Enid BennettAlso in Sooky (1931)

Jackie SearlAlso in Skippy (1931)

Guy OliverAlso in Skippy (1931)

Norman Z. McLeodAlso in Sooky (1931)Douglas HaigAlso in Skippy (1931)

Robert CooganAlso in Sooky (1931)

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Percy Lee Crosby was an American author, illustrator and cartoonist best known for his comic strip Skippy. Adapted into movies, a novel and a radio show, Crosby's creation was commemorated on a 1997 U.S. Postal Service stamp. An inspiration for Charles Schulz's Peanuts, the strip is regarded by comics historian Maurice Horn as a "classic... which innovated a number of sophisticated and refined touches used later by Charles Schulz and Bill Watterson". Humorist Corey Ford, writing in Vanity Fair, praised the strip as "America's most important contribution to humor of the century".

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