Morris Weiss

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Morris Weiss (born August 11, 1915, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American comic book and comic strip artist and sometime writer, active from the 1930s through the mid-'70s. He created the teen-comedy character "Margie" for Timely Comics, and was the final cartoonist on the once-popular comic strip Mickey Finn.

Weiss befriended a host of notable artists, including James Montgomery Flagg. As a member of the National Cartoonists Society, he proposed the idea of a charity fund for members on hard times, which Alex Raymond developed into the Milt Gross Fund for Indigent Cartoonists.

Weiss was the inker and assistant on cartoonist Lank Leonard's Mickey Finn from 1936-1943 and again from 1960 on. He took over the strip in 1971, following Leonard's death in August 1970, continuing through the final Sunday strip on December 21, 1975, and the daily strip's finale on July 31, 1976.

With his wife Blanche, Weiss founded the Miami Society for Autistic Children.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] References

• Alter Ego #43 (Dec. 2004): Morris Weiss interview, pp. 7-22 (offline)
• Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Mickey Finn
• Lambiek Comiclopedia: Lank Leonard (Frank E. Leonard) (Gives Leonard death date as Aug. 1, 1970)
• Caskets on Parade (Gives Leonard death date as Aug. 2, 1970)
• The Comic Strip Project