LARRY BRANNON | Canadian Animation, Cartooning and Illustration

LARRY BRANNON

This comic strip created James Winslow Mortimer and syndicated by the Toronto Star Syndicate ran for eight years from November 14 1960 to October 12 1968 in as many as 60 newspapers.

Mortimer left David Crane, a previous strip he had created to launch Larry Brannon. Actually the idea for Larry Brannon came to Mortimer before he started working on David Crane. Mortimer conceived him as a twenty-eight year old trouble shooter for a mining company a “dynamic young Canadian in a dynamic Canadian environment.”

SOURCE:

Periodical text:

“An Introduction to the Canadian Newspaper Comic.” Writ., Kenneth Barker. Inks: Cartoon & Comic Arts Studies, 4-2, May 1997: 18-25.

“The small but lively propaganda war of comic strips.” Maclean’s, 28 Jan.1961:54.

Newspaper:

“Adventurer ‘Larry Brannon’ Is Brainchild of Hamiltonian.” Expositor [Brantford],10 Nov.1960.

“Ex-Hamilton Artist To Draw Spec Strip.” Hamilton Spectator, circa. 1960.

GALLERY:

$C:\Users\Robert\Documents\CARTOONING ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION\IMAGE CARTOON\IMAGE CARTOON L\LARRY BRANNON, Btfd Expositor, 16,01,1961,19.jpg$ Expositor [Brantford], 16 January 1961: 19.

$C:\Users\Robert\Documents\CARTOONING ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION\IMAGE CARTOON\IMAGE CARTOON L\LARRY BRANNON, Tor Star 28,2,1961, 35.jpg$ Toronto Daily Star, 28 February 1961: 35.

$C:\Users\Robert\Documents\CARTOONING ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION\IMAGE CARTOON\IMAGE CARTOON L\LARRY BRANNON, Btfd Expositor, 9,8,1962.jpg$ Expositor [Brantford], 9 August 1962

$C:\Users\Robert\Documents\CARTOONING ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION\IMAGE CARTOON\IMAGE CARTOON L\LARRY BRANNON, Btfd Expositor, 23,11,1963,23.jpg$ Expositor [Brantford], 25 November 1963: 23.

$C:\Users\Robert\Documents\CARTOONING ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION\IMAGE CARTOON\IMAGE CARTOON L\LARRY BRANNON, Btfd Expositor, 25,11, 1963, 21.jpg$ Expositor [Brantford], 25 November 1963: 21.

$C:\Users\Robert\Documents\CARTOONING ILLUSTRATION ANIMATION\IMAGE CARTOON\IMAGE CARTOON L\LARRY BRANNON, Btfd Expositor, 29,7,1968, 21.jpg$ Expositor [Brantford], 29 July 1968: 21.