Allen Saunders

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John Allen Saunders (born March 24, 1899 , according to other information: April 24, 1899 in Hoosier , Indiana , United States , † January 28, 1986 in Maumee , Ohio , United States) was an American comic book author and illustrator.

life and work

Saunders learned to draw by correspondence course and then studied at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts and Wabash College, where he graduated in 1920. He drew his first cartoons after working as a French teacher for seven years. Saunders wrote his first comic strip ( The Great Gusto ) on the drawings of Elmer Woggon in 1936. The Great Gusto was later renamed first Big Chief Wahoo and then Steve Rooper . In 1940, Saunders took over the Apple Mary strip, created by Martha Orr eight years earlier, renamed Mary Worth's Family and continued to be drawn by Orr's former assistant Dale Conner. The Strip, which Saunders maintained until 1979, was renamed Mary Worth in 1942 . In addition to working on Mary Worth , Saunders provided the texts for the strip Kerry Drake drawn by Alfred Andriola from 1943 to 1971 . In collaboration with the illustrator Al McWilliams , Saunders' third series was created in 1968, entitled Dateline: Danger . Saunders' son John took over his father's job after he gave up writing due to old age.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Andreas C. Knigge : Comic Lexikon . Ullstein Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin and Vienna 1988, ISBN 3-548-36554-X , p. 388.
  2. ↑ a b c Allen Saunders at lfb.it (Italian), accessed on September 17, 2011
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Allen Saunders at lambiek.net (English), accessed on September 17, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Saunders, Allen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saunders, John Allen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comic book writer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 24, 1899 or April 24, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoosier , Indiana, United States
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1986
Place of death Maumee , Ohio, United States