The Complete Little Orphan Annie, Volume One: Will Tomorrow Ever Come? Daily Comics, 1924-1927
It’s the Fourth of July, so on this most American of holidays, it seems meet to discuss that most American of comic strips, Little Orphan Annie, the saga of the tiny, red-haired waif with “a heart of gold and a mean left hook.” Today’s audiences probably know of this famous character mostly from the musical Annie, but the titular heroine originates in Harold Gray’s massive, decades-spanning, immensely popular, and sometimes gritty comic strip in the Chicago Tribune, in which the resourceful orphan regularly tangled with gangsters and occasionally dispensed two-fisted vigilante justice in back-alley brawls. Continue reading “‘Little Orphan Annie,’ Volume 1”