Hundreds showed up to a ballroom in Oakland to offer their respects to Wee Pals creator Morrie Turner who passed last month.
Hundreds of fans, family members and friends dropped by the ballroom of Claremont Hotel on Sunday afternoon to say their final goodbyes to the well-known Oakland-born cartoonist.
Turner broke racial barriers in the 1960s when he became the first African-American to have a syndicated comic strip — the gently humored, ethnically diverse “Wee Pals.” The comic still runs daily in the Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times.
A fitting and well deserved closing to a wonderful career.
Also: RC Harvey writes a eulogy and tribute in The Comics Journal.