Graphic Art, Cartoons and Milton Caniff

"Graphic art began to be an important element in the make up

 of the American newspaper in the early days of the republic.

Paul Revere engraved anti-British cartoons upon copper plates

for printers in Massachusetts Colony in the Revolution

and Benjamin Franklin illustrated his Pensylvania Gazette

and Poor Richard's Almanac.....Cartoons were already a potent

editorial influence at the time of the War of 1812.

A history of the United States since that time could be told

entirely in editorial cartoons." - John Paul Adams,

Milton Caniff: Rembrandt of the Comic-Strip, p. 16,

c.1946, David McKay Company.

The Above were copied from examples

of Mr. Caniff's artwork in the book with a China Marker.