Royston Campbell Crane (November 22, 1901 - July 7, 1977), who signed his work Roy Crane, was an American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip characters Wash Tubbs, Captain Easy, and Buz Sawyer. He created one of the earliest adventure comic strips, and influenced many of the subsequent cartoonists in that genre. Image File history File links Rcrane. ... November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1901 (MCMI) 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). ... July 7 is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 177 days remaining. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Wash Tubbs was a comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from April 14, 1924 to 1988. ... Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune was an action/adventure comic strip created by Roy Crane that started Sunday, June 11, 1933 and was discontinued in 1988. ... Buz Sawyer was a popular comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from November 1, 1943 to 1989. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ...

Crane was born in Abilene, Texas and grew up in nearby Sweetwater. When he was 14 years old, he took the C.N. Landon correspondence course in cartooning. He initially attended college at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene and later the University of Texas, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. At 19, he studied for six months at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago. His early career was a checkered one, including pitching tents for a Chautauqua, a seaman's berth, and a stint riding the rails. In 1922, he began his newspaper cartooning career on the New York World, where he assisted H.T. Webster. Nickname: The Friendly Frontier Location within the state of Texas County Taylor County Mayor Norm Archibald Area    - City 286. ... Sweetwater is a city located in Nolan County, Texas. ... Hardin-Simmons University Hardin-Simmons University, (HSU) is a private baptist university located in Abilene, Texas. ... The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is the flagship[3][4][5][6][7] institution of the University of Texas System. ... Phi Kappa Psi (ΦΚΨ, Phi Psi) is a U.S. national college fraternity. ... This article is about Illinois largest city. ... The Chautauqua, (pronounced shÉ™-tôkwÉ™) was a popular educational movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the United States. ... The New York World was a newspaper published in New York from 1860 until 1931. ...

In 1924, Crane approached C.N. Landon, who was then an editor at the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA). Landon agreed to let him try his hand at a humorous strip titled Washington Tubbs II, soon shortened to Wash Tubbs, which debuted on April 21, 1924. After about four months, Crane tired of the gag-a-day format and sent his diminutive hero off on a treasure hunt. The strip evolved into a rollicking adventure yarn, all the more so after the introduction in 1929 of the raffish soldier of fortune, Captain Easy. United Media is large editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States, owned by The E.W. Scripps Company. ... Wash Tubbs was a comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from April 14, 1924 to 1988. ... April 21 is the 111th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (112th in leap years). ... 1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Captain Easy, Soldier of Fortune was an action/adventure comic strip created by Roy Crane that started Sunday, June 11, 1933 and was discontinued in 1988. ...

World War II rendered the comic-opera settings of Tubbs's adventures frivolous. The strip took on a new tone. In 1943, an offer from Hearst's King Features Syndicate persuaded Crane to jump ship and create a more realistic comic strip, Buz Sawyer. He left Wash Tubbs in the hands of his assistant, Leslie Turner, a boyhood friend who had shared the hobo life with him. King Features Syndicate is a syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation; it distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editorial cartoons, puzzles and games to thousands of newspapers around the world. ... Buz Sawyer was a popular comic strip created by Roy Crane that ran from November 1, 1943 to 1989. ...

Crane, an excellent draftsman despite his deceptively cartoonish style, established himself as a master of shading. He progressed from line drawings with cross-hatching to grease pencil on textured paper, then to Benday Dots, and finally to Craftint doubletone paper. The Craftint paper, when brushed with the right solutions, revealed either one or two layers of diagonal shading. Under Crane's brush, the technique yielded scenes of dramatic atmosphere, such as junglescapes fading into the misty distance. From time to time, Crane went on location to research his plot lines and visuals. An example of the concept of Benday Dots The Benday Dots printing process is similar to pointilism but uses one primary color and is more spaced out (e. ...

Crane was awarded the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Cartoonist of the Year in 1950, and their Story Comic Strip Award in 1965, both for Buz Sawyer . He was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the University of Texas at Austin in 1969. He progressively relinquished his cartooning to assistants, and died in Orlando, Florida in 1977. 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. ... The University of Texas at Austin, often called UT or Texas, is the flagship[3][4][5][6][7] institution of the University of Texas System. ... Nickname: The City Beautiful, O-Town, 407 Location in Orange County and the state of Florida. ...

Further reading

• Goulart, Ron. The Adventurous Decade. Arlington House, 1975. (Reprinted by Hermes Press, 2004.)
• Harvey, R.C. A Flourish of Trumpets: Roy Crane and the Adventure Strip. Online article.
• Marschall, Richard. America's Great Comic-Strip Artists. New York: Abbeville Press, 1989. Devotes a chapter to Crane and his oeuvre.
• Nantier Beall Minoustchine (NBM)'s Flying Buttress Classics Library reprinted the complete run of Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy in a series of 18 volumes. Bill Blackbeard's introductions to these books contain biographical and critical material.