“I’ve always loved to travel, so I went to many different places in search of information that I could use in the strip I even spent some time aboard an aircraft carrier. Before actually starting the strip, and to insure authenticity, I did a great deal of research. It promised lots of action, and I also felt that I would be making a contribution to the war effort. “It was during World War II, so I decided to make Buz a Navy pilot.
I drew Wash Tubbs until 1943, when I started drawing Buz Sawyer.
“In 1924 I began drawing Wash Tubbs, a pioneer adventure and story strip (it was later to be called Captain Easy). Webster will always be remembered for his Timid Soul panel and other features. “I always maintained a great interest in cartooning, and at one time I was H.T. In 1921, I worked on the Austin American, and in 1922 I as with the old New York World. In 1918, I got my first professional experience when I became the staff layout man and cartoonist for the Fort Worth Record. “I studied art at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. As a result of a three-year drought…which caused the Crane swimming lake to blow away in a cloud of dust…I’ve never since lived beyond the sight and smell of water. It featured an introduction by Beetle Bailey’s Mort Walker and was compiled by Allen Willette.
This is pulled from an oversized saddle-stitched magazine from Allied Publications with the creatively-challenged title These Top Cartoonists Tell How They Create America’s Favorite Comics. Even the modern strip, Rip Haywire by Dan Thompson shows a Crane influence as does Randy Reynaldo’s Rob Hanes.Īnd in a classic Comics Journal interview, Art Spiegelman calls Crane an influence on Jack Kirby.Ĭontinuing my series on cartooning and cartoonists, Roy Crane wrote about himself and his work back in 1964. He’s been dead for 30 plus years, but looking through his strip work, you can see his influence in comics from Milton Caniff to Alex Toth to Howard Chaykin. But one look at Roy Crane’s work and anyone can see that he definitely was worthy of the “genius” tag.Ĭrane created two great adventure classics, Wash Tubbs (which later became Captain Easy) and Buz Sawyer, with Wash being called the first true newspaper adventure strip. We all have our favorites and we all like to think ours are the great ones. It’s easy to toss around the word “genius,” especially when it comes to comics.
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