1930s Comic Strip Larry Whittington Fritzi Ritz Creator Daisy Daily & Dotty Dawn

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1930s Comic Strip Larry Whittington Fritzi Ritz Creator Daisy Daily & Dotty Dawn:
$50.00

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This sale is for one piece of original comic art by the artist Larry Whittington - I am listing several pieces by him so if this is of interest please look at my other sales. There is a fairly detailed biography below written by the great comic strip aficionado Alex Jay. Whittington\'s originals are rare with only a few known in collections. I was told a long time ago that after Whittington\'s premature death ( he was hit by a car) most of his art was thrown out.This is a mid/late 1930s strip for Daisy Daily and Dotty Dawn which ran in the weekly Hastings News (Hastings on the Hudson, New York) 1936-1938?- it measures 20 by 6 inches and has some staining to front and glue stains at rear. Original General Features Syndicate Inc. tag on bottom 3rd panel. It is signed by Whittington in the last panel. Daisy goes out to but a tennis racket and winds up getting an outfit instead - forgetting the racket.
Carl Lawrence “Larry” Whittington was born in West Virginia around 1903 according to most census records and death information.
Whittington left the World to produce Mazie the Model for the New York Mirror. The strip saw print from May 25, 1925 to April 14, 1928.
According to the 1940 census, Whittington and his mother, a widow, resided at the same address, 4314 214th Place, Queens, New York, as his brother-in-law, Walter. Whittington’s occupation was artist in the art industry.

On occasion, news about Marjorie would also mention her brother as a cartoonist of the Evening World.
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