Little Orphan Annie (Fantagraphics)

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Little Orphan Annie: wide-eyed, pupil-less, cute, red-headed waif, loaded with pluck, gumption, rock-solid values, the work ethic. This impoverished orphan is always ready to make her way. She finds friends everywhere, decent folk who don’t allow life to get them down; if it does, Annie bucks them up.

Eternally pre-pubescent, ever virgin and virtuous, never quite a young woman, Annie remains a child, big sister to the world.

With her faithful dog, Sandy, Annie makes her way through the byroads of American life during the 1930s and 1940s, encountering a colorful assortment of characters, saints and sinners, guardian angels, victims and villains, the flesh and fibre of our national character.

This is Americana.

Harold Gray, the strip’s creator/cartoonist, became legendary for the comic strip from which these stories are culled and reformatted.

The comic book reflects its newspaper origins. With the strip’s nature as an ongoing continuity, stories don’t end. They unfold.

— David Porta
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