Roy Crane Collection. [1905-1937?]

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Roy Crane Collection. [1905-1937?]

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The collection consists of two boxes of early, mostly unpublished drawings by Roy Crane. Most of the drawings in the collection are in tablets and cover several years of work beginning in 1909 when Crane was nine. Even then his interest was in action, soldiers and Indians, ships at sea, and trains, all drawn with a great attention to detail. This concern with detail was to be a hallmark of much of his later work. When he was 14 and with his father's encouragement, Crane took a cartoon correspondence course offered by Charles Landon, an editor and illustrator at the Newspaper Enterprise Association (now a part of E. W. Scripps Company) and at Cosmopolitan. The original course outline that lists assignments and requirements is in the collection as are the original drawings by Crane for each assignment. These drawings were sent to Landon who made written comments and explicated his comments with original illustrations. Included also are early cartoons by Crane drawn when he was a student at Simmons College for the college yearbook and cartoons created at the University of Texas for publications there. Brochures advertising the Newspaper Enterprise Association and the Washington Tubbs II adventures and drawings from other courses that Crane took are included. The collection also contains clippings of Crane's published cartoon strips dating from 1925 to 1937.

2 boxes (3 linear ft.) : ill.

Hardin-Simmons University, Richardson Library

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Hardin-Simmons University, Richardson Library

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Crane, Roy

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Cartoonist. Royston Campbell (Roy) Crane, Jr. was the creator of Washington Tubbs II, an adventure strip first published in 1924. His next creation, Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune, was introduced into the strip in 1928 to protect the non-swashbuckling Tubbs on his adventures. Captain Easy soon eclipsed Tubbs in the story and became the hero of his own Sunday cartoon strip in 1933. In 1949, the Tubbs name was dropped from the daily strip. Crane's last adventure strip was Buz Sawyer, the story o...