{"id":339,"date":"2007-05-21T09:14:05","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T17:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=339"},"modified":"2008-01-28T10:46:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-28T18:46:52","slug":"150-greatest-cartoonists-countdown-142-harold-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/21\/150-greatest-cartoonists-countdown-142-harold-grey\/","title":{"rendered":"150 Greatest Cartoonists Countdown: #142 Harold Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?page_id=638\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/150cartoonists\/150cartoonists.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liss.olm.net\/loahp\/\"><strong>#142 Harold Gray<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/comicartfans.com\/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=153439&#038;GSub=5381\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stwallskull.com\/blog\/images\/150cartoonists\/142_gray.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start with saying I haven&#8217;t read nearly as much Harold Gray&#8217;s <em>Little Orphan Annie<\/em> as I would like&#8230; I&#8217;ve picked up some reprints recently that I haven&#8217;t got to yet that I&#8217;m looking forward to. That said, what I have read has been extremely impressive. I love Gray&#8217;s bleak, straightforward art, his sparse, simple backgrounds, and his sense of composition. His storytelling skills made Annie one of the most popular comic strips of the thirties. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fantagraphics.com\">Fantagraphics did some reprints a while ago<\/a>&#8230; recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idwpublishing.com\/news\/pressreleases\/annie.shtml\">IDW Publishing picked it up<\/a>. A number of different Annie reprints can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kenpiercebooks.com\/annie1.htm\">here<\/a>, including some very cool facsimile editions of her old reprint books from the 20&#8217;s and 30&#8217;s that were published by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificcomics.com\/\">Pacific Comics Club<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Click the above image to see the full strip at comicartfans.com. One other interesting thing I ran across at comicartfans.com while making this post&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/comicartfans.com\/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=164437&#038;GSub=26108\">the last Annie strip by Harold Gray (from 7\/20\/68).<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lambiek.net\/artists\/g\/gray_h.htm\">Click here to read the entry on Harold Gray at lambiek.net.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#142 Harold Gray I&#8217;ll start with saying I haven&#8217;t read nearly as much Harold Gray&#8217;s Little Orphan Annie as I would like&#8230; I&#8217;ve picked up some reprints recently that I haven&#8217;t got to yet that I&#8217;m looking forward to. That &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/21\/150-greatest-cartoonists-countdown-142-harold-grey\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,18,17,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-150-greatest-cartoonists-countdown","category-cartoonists","category-comics","category-harold-gray"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZfX-5t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}