Milton Arthur Paul Caniff (February 28, 1907-May 3, 1988) was an American cartoonist most famous for Terry and the Pirates. February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1907 (MCMVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... May 3 is the 123rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (124th in leap years). ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A cartoonist at work. ... Terry and the Pirates was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff. ...

Caniff was born in Hillsboro, Ohio. He was an Eagle Scout and a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America. Caniff had done some cartoons for local newspapers as a teenager. Shortly after matriculating at Ohio State University, from which he graduated in 1930, Caniff began a career in journalism by applying to the Columbus Dispatch. There he worked with the noted cartoonist William "Billy" Ireland until Caniff's position was eliminated. In 1932, he traveled to New York City and was hired by the Associated Press to produce the adventure fantasy strip Dickie Dare. The strip was an action serial with a young male hero and was the prototype for Caniff's later work. While at Ohio State, Caniff joined the Sigma Chi Fraternity, and later provided illustrations for The Magazine of Sigma Chi and The Norman Shield (the fraternity's pledgeship/reference manual). Hillsboro is a city located in Highland County, Ohio. ... Eagle Scout is the highest rank attainable by a Scout in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), and is also used as a title of a Scout who has achieved this honor. ... The Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, is a special award, awarded only to Eagle Scouts, for distinguished service in his profession or to the community for a period of at least 25 years after earning his Eagle Scout rank. ... The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is an organization designed for boys between the ages of 7 and 18, and for both young men and women between the ages of 14 and 21, based in the United States of America, with some presence in other countries. ... The Ohio State University is currently the third largest university in the United States and currently ranked by US News and World Report as the best public university in Ohio and the twenty-first best public university in the nation. ... The Columbus Dispatch is a daily newspaper, based in Columbus, Ohio, that serves the central portion of the state. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... Associated Press logo This article concerns the news service. ... Public Motto In Hoc Signo Vinces (Latin: In this sign you will conquer) Founding location Miami University in Oxford, Ohio Founding date June 28, 1855 Founders Benjamin Piatt Runkle Thomas Cowan Bell William Lewis Lockwood Isaac M. Jordan Daniel William Cooper Franklin Howard Scobey James Parks Caldwell Grand Consul Keith... The Magazine of Sigma Chi, the official quarterly publication for undergraduate and alumni brothers of the Sigma Chi Fraternity, is one of the most highly esteemed magazines in the Greek-letter world. ...

In 1934, Caniff was hired by the New York Daily News to produce a new strip, Terry and the Pirates. It was this strip which made Caniff famous. Like Dickie Dare, Terry began the strip as a boy. But over the years the character aged and by World War II he was old enough to be portrayed as serving in the Army Air Force. New York Daily News Building, Raymond Hood, architect, rendering by Hugh Ferriss The New York Daily News is one of the largest newspapers in the United States with a circulation well over 700,000. ... Terry and the Pirates was an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff. ... Combatants Allies: • Poland, • UK & Commonwealth, • France/Free France, • Soviet Union, • USA, • China, ...and others• Axis: • Germany, • Italy, • Japan, • ...and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total: 50 million Full list Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total: 12 million Full list World War II... The United States Army Air Forces, or USAAF, was a part of the U.S. military during World War II. The direct precursor to the U.S. Air Force, the USAAF formally existed between 1941 and 1947. ...

During the war, Caniff began a second strip, a special version of Terry and the Pirates without Terry and featuring a female star named Burma. Caniff donated all of his work on this strip to the armed forces for free and the strip was only available in military newspapers. After complaints from a paying customer, the Miami Herald, the strip was renamed Male Call. Male Call featured more adult situations than Terry and the Pirates, including the character of Miss Lace, an attractive woman who was often drawn in sexually suggestive poses. Caniff ended Male Call in 1946. The Miami Herald is a daily newspaper owned by Knight Ridder. ... Male Call was a comic strip created and drawn by Milton Caniff exclusively for US military publications during World War II from January 24, 1943 to March 3, 1946. ...

1946 also saw the end of Caniff's association with Terry and the Pirates. While the strip was a major success, it was owned by the newspaper not Caniff. Caniff decided to start a new strip based on characters which he would own. Caniff produced his last strip of Terry and the Pirates in December 1946 and introduced his new strip Steve Canyon in the Chicago Sun-Times the following month. Steve Canyon was an action/adventure comic strip written by Milton Caniff. ... New home of the Chicago Sun-Times at 350 N. Orleans St. ...

Like his previous strip, Steve Canyon was an action strip with a pilot as its main character. Canyon was originally portrayed as a private pilot but he joined the military during the Korean War and remained so for the rest of the strip. While Steve Canyon never reached the popularity that Terry and the Pirates had at its height, it was a successful comic strip and Caniff continued it for over forty years until his death. Overview map of the Korean War The Korean War, from June 25, 1950 to cease-fire on July 27, 1953 (the war has not ended officially), was a conflict between North Korea and South Korea. ...

Caniff was one of the founders of the National Cartoonist Society and served as its President in 1948 to 1949. He also received the society's first Cartoonist of the Year Award in 1946 for Steve Canyon. Caniff would later also be awarded the Reuben Award in 1971 (again for Steve Canyon), and be named to the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 1988. He received the National Cartoonist Society Elzie Segar Award in 1971, the Award for Story Comic Strip in 1979 for Steve Canyon, the Gold Key Award (the Society's Hall of Fame) in 1981, and they have since named the Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award in his honor. The National Cartoonists Society is an organization of professional cartoonists created in 1946. ... The Reuben Awards, named for Rube Goldberg, are presented each year by the National Cartoonists Society to the person chosen as Cartoonist of the Year. ... An Eisner Award is given for creative achievement in comic books, one of the most prestigious such awards in North America. ... The National Cartoonists Society is an organization of professional cartoonists created in 1946. ...

Caniff died in New York City.