OSKAR LEBECK, DELL COMICS, AND THE CROTON CONNECTION

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A chance encounter with a copyright card bearing the familiar name of "Raggedy Ann & Andy" and the not so familiar name of  'OSKAR LEBECK" , followed by "Croton-on-Hudson"--click on the image---prompted one of the Everything Croton Elves to do a little more searching and....

Oskar Lebeck, John Stanley & Friends - A Photo Essay by Michael Barrier

Oskar Lebeck (1903-1966) was one of the greatest comic-book editors, the man who more than anyone else gave the Dell comic books of the 1940s their distinctive qualities. His best cartoonists were Walt Kelly, whose Pogo was born in Animal Comics, a comic book Lebeck edited, and John Stanley, who brought to the Little Lulu comic book penetrating wit and layers of comedy that no one could have expected when Lulu was appearing in gag panels in the Saturday Evening Post. Many other exceptional writers and cartoonists, including Gaylord DuBois, Morris Gollub, Dan Noonan, and George Kerr, produced much of their best work under Lebeck's light hand.  READ AND SEE MUCH MORE AT http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Essays/Lebeck/LebeckStanley.html

INCLUDES THREE PHOTOS FROM HIS CROTON-ON-HUDSON HOME TOO....