Never Was Comic Strips – Annie’s Li’l Orphans

Annie’s Li’l Orphans
by Stan Drake and Bill Yates

Around the early 1970s(?) bigfoot partnered with
realistic to produce a strange hybrid comic strip.

Annie, drawn by Stan Drake, was a counselor at
Wanderland Orphanage, whose kids were drawn by Bill Yates.

 

 

According to Bill Yates’ introduction to the strip
Stan Drake drew Annie using a model and helped write/gag the strip

 

 

while Bill Yates did the cartoon kids and the backgrounds and was the main gagman/writer.

 

Coollinesartwork has a selection of dailies from the syndicate submission.

 

Joakim Gunnarsson has found a couple more strips, but with a twist.

The above have Stan Drake partnered with Dik Browne.
Were these the original ideas? Did Drake take this concept to Yates because Browne was too busy?