Darrell McClure
Cartoonist, Comic Strip Creator
1903 – 1987
Who was Darrell McClure?
Darrell Craig McClure, was an American cartoonist and illustrator best known for his work on the comic strip Little Annie Rooney from 1930 to 1966. The strip took its name from an 1890 song by Michael Nolan.
McClure was born in Ukiah, California, where his mother was the painter Ethel Jameson Docker. At age nine, McClure moved with his family to San Francisco, where he went to art school at night, doing his first professional jobs at age 14. He was 17 when he began an apprenticeship in animated cartoons, and he studied at the California School of Fine Arts. After work in logging camps as a lumberjack, he was a sailor on commercial freighters in the Pacific, eventually traveling to New York City on a freighter.
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- Born
- Feb 25, 1903
Ukiah - Profession
- Education
- San Francisco Art Institute
- Died
- Feb 27, 1987
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on July 23, 2013
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