The Festival of Cartoon Art

Just a quick note that Harry and I have arrived in Columbus Ohio for the Festival of Cartoon Art at Ohio State University. This event is honoring Milton Caniff's 100th anniversary, and we are looking forward to all of the events that Lucy Caswell and OSU have planned. More detail and pictures as things progress!

Check this link for more info:

Festival of Cartoon Art

Air Force Times/Steve Canyon Anniversary

Cartoonist kept loyal Air Force following with straight-laced adventures of fictional flyboy

Pages of history:

"Steve Canyon" kept a loyal Air Force following with the straight-laced adventures of a fictional flyboy. Check out historic strips, video and a special 60th birthday celebration

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Click to go to Air Force Times Online and read more!

The Air Force Times (in cooperation with The Milton Caniff Estate, Caniff Biographer Robert C. Harvey, and artist/writer Russ Maheras) have put up a splendid page on their website devoted to Steve Canyon's 60th Anniversary. A special newly created Steve Canyon full color comic-strip, created by Maheras, is being featured online as well as in the September 24th edition of their weekly newspaper.

Fans of our site and the Steve Canyon TV series will find streaming clips from four different episodes (three previously unreleased on our site) including an extended clip from the much requested OPERATION INTERCEPT. You will also find several scans of classic Steve Canyon strips, comments from Milton's nephew Harry Guyton, and R.C. Harvey, and MORE! Head on over there and check it out!

John Ellis
Hollywood, CA

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Biography: Milton Caniff and Norman Rockwell in Coronet

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive: Biography: Milton Caniff and Norman Rockwell in Coronet

We (The Milton Caniff Estate) recently loaned the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive copies of two issues of Coronet magazine from 1942 and 1947 to digitize. Read these fascinating articles about Milton Caniff's challenges in creating and drawing these strips...plus scans of great artwork and more! Thanks to ASIFA-Hollywood and Steve Worth for sharing this content on their website.

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Click to go to ASIFA and read more!

NOTE that the ASIFA website appears to be no more, but here is a link to an archived copy of the original post on archive.org, click HERE.