Leonard Starr
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Leonard Starr who was born October 28, 1925 was an advertising artist and cartoonist. In 1957 he created the comic strip On Stage, later titled Mary Perkins, On Stage. Characterized by equal parts soap opera and humor it featured tight slickly realistic graphics and, from the beginning, both a strong sense of design and occasionally daringly adventurous layout and story-telling. He received the National Cartoonist Society's Story Comic Strip Award for On Stage in 1960 and 1963, and their Reuben Award for it in 1965.
In 1979 he revived the comic strip Little Orphan Annie, eschewing the Ayn Rand-influenced political views that often characterized the original strip. Starr's close attention to line and strong design sense helped to make the strip, which had been in reprints since 1974 after creator Harold Gray's death in 1968, a success. Starr, who continued with the rechristed Annie until his retirement in 2000, received the National Cartoonist Society's Story Comic Strip Award for it in 1983.
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