Percy Crosby

Percy Crosby
BornPercy Lee Crosby
(1891-12-08)December 8, 1891
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
DiedDecember 8, 1964(1964-12-08) (aged 73)
Kings Park, New York, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Cartoonist, Writer, Artist
Notable works
Skippy
Spouse(s)
Gertrude Volz
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(m. 1917; div. 1927)​
Agnes Dale Locke
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(m. 1929; div. 1939)​
Carolyn Soper
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(m. 1940)​
www.skippy.com

Percy Lee Crosby[1] (December 8, 1891 – December 8, 1964)[2][3] was an American author, illustrator and cartoonist best known for his comic strip Skippy. Adapted into movies, a novel and a radio show, Crosby's creation was commemorated on a 1997 U.S. Postal Service stamp. An inspiration for Charles Schulz's Peanuts,[4] the strip is regarded by comics historian Maurice Horn as a "classic... which innovated a number of sophisticated and refined touches used later by Charles Schulz and Bill Watterson."[4] Humorist Corey Ford, writing in Vanity Fair, praised the strip as "America's most important contribution to humor of the century".[5]

  1. ^ Percy Lee Crosby at FamilySearch.org. Retrieved on January 8, 2016.
  2. ^ Percy Crosby, Social Security Number 229-07-1487, at the Social Security Death Index via GenealogyBank.com. Source gives December 8, 1891 – December 1964, with no specific date.
  3. ^ Robinson, Jerry (1978). Skippy and Percy Crosby. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston. ISBN 0-03-018491-6. Gives specific death date of December 8.
  4. ^ a b Horn, Maurice, ed. (1996). "Skippy". 100 Years of American Newspaper Comics. New York: Gramercy Books. pp. 348–349. ISBN 0-517-12447-5.
  5. ^ Quoted in Skippy: A Complete Compilation 1925–1926. Westport, Connecticut: Hyperion Press. 1977. ISBN 0-88355-629-4 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-88355-628-3 (softcover)