Leonard Starr
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Leonard Starr who was born October 28, 1925 was a Golden Age comic book artist, an advertising artist and award-winning cartoonist. In 1957 he created the comic strip On Stage, later titled Mary Perkins, On Stage, which was characterized by a mix of soap opera, adventure and humor. It featured tight, slickly realistic graphics and, from the beginning, both a strong sense of design and daring 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.
Starr also wrote a series of Graphic Novels featuring a sexy and capable female action heroine named Kelly Green. Starr's friend Stan Drake, cartoonist of the comic strip The Heart of Juliet Jones, illustrated the books.
In 1979 he revived the comic strip Little Orphan Annie. 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.
Starr went on to become the head writer of the acclaimed and memorable Rankin Bass animated series Thundercats.
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