At 89 years-old, Morrie Turner, who is the first nationally syndicated African American cartoonist in America, was still making cartoons for the children of Sacramento. Turner sketched the first black comic strip called “Wee Pals”, which hit the newspapers of Chicago in 1965. Turner described his first comic strips as challenging. The papers were very […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Morris “Morrie” Turner, the creator of the “Wee Pals” comic strip and the first African American cartoonist to be syndicated nationally, has died. He was 90. Family spokesman David Bellard says the Oakland, Calif.-born Turner died peacefully at a hospital in Sacramento, Calif., on Saturday. Turner developed the humorous, ethnically diverse […]
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