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From Ryan's article: "Nicholls stayed in America for 12 months and during that time had to take on various jobs to supplement his income. One such job was the ghosting of Ad Carter's "Just Kids" strip, which ran from 1923 until Carter's death in 1957. (In the eulogy at Syd's funeral, it was said that Syd had worked on the "Little Orphan Annie" strip. I think this may be a case of confusion of comic strip titles. Anyone who knew Syd Nicholls could imagine his reaction to Harold Gray's extreme right-wing philosophy and it is hard to imagine Syd compromising his principles to the extent that he would work on the strip."
And further: "Syd returned to Australia and 'Fatty Finn' in 1932 and in the middle of 1933 he was sacked by the editor of the 'Sunday Sun', Eric Baume." -
27/03/2016 10:10
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Nat Karmichael
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Reference: John Ryan article in STRIPS (Issue #3, 1977 Scorpion Publications, Auckland, New Zealand). John Ryan (author of PANEL BY PANEL) states that "Nicholls stayed in America for 12 months and during that time had to take on various jobs to supplement his income. One such job was the ghosting of Ad Carter's Just Kids strip, which ran -
27/03/2016 09:59
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Nat Karmichael
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