Happy Birthday to Lily Renée (Lily Renée Willheim Peters Phillips) born 100 years ago today.
Lily joins a few other centenarians on our Senior Strippers list.
This seems a good time to update our Senior Strippers roster, cartoonists who for 90+ years continue to survive “the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to.”
Below is, as best as I can determine, a list of cartoonists who continue to carry on past 90 years.
cartoonist ERNIE POIGNANT February 4, 1919
artist and cartoonist WAYNE THIEBAUD Novermber 15, 1920
comic book and comic strip cartoonist AL JAFFEE March 13, 1921
comic book artist LILY RENEE PHILIPS May 12, 1921
gag and comic strip cartoonist ROGER BRADFIELD September 24, 1924
editorial cartoonist JIM IVEY April 15, 1925
cartoonist and illustrator SANDY KOSSIN June 4, 1926
gag cartoonist GEORGE BOOTH June 28, 1926
comic book and comic strip artist MEL KEEFER July 2, 1926
cartoonist EMIL V. ABRAHAMIAN September 1, 1926
comic book artist FRANK GIUSTO September 6, 1926
comic book and comic strip artist RAMONA FRADON October 2, 1926
comic book, comic strip, gag cartoonist ORLANDO BUSINO October 10, 1926
illustrator HILARY KNIGHT November 1, 1926
cartoonist PIERRE “PEB” BELLOCQ November 25, 1926
comic book and comic strip cartoonist HY EISMAN March 27, 1927
comic book and comic strip artist YAROSLAV HORAK June 12, 1927
illustrator and comic book artist MORT KUNSTLER August 28, 1927
comic book and comic strip cartoonist JACK KATZ September 27, 1927
magazine cartoonist WAYNE HORNE September 27, 1927
comic book and comic strip artist SY BARRY March 12, 1928
comic book artist MARTY ELKIN March 12, 1928
comic strip artist SYDNEY JORDAN May 28, 1928 (1931?)
comic book cartoonist BOB BOLLING June 9, 1928
comic book and comic strip artist JOE GIELLA June 27, 1928
comic book and gag cartoonist DON OREHEK August 9, 1928
cartoonist JULES FEIFFER January 26, 1929
cartoonist ARNOLD ROTH February 25, 1929
cartoonist PAUL COKER March 5, 1929
caricaturist and illustrator EDWARD SOREL March 26, 1929
editorial cartoonist ART VAN RHYN April, 1929
cartoonist and puzzle maker DICK ROGERS June 19, 1929
comic book artist VIC CARRABOTTA June 24, 1929
French Disney artist PIERRE NICHOLAS July 22, 1929
comic book artist DON PERLIN August 27, 1929
comic strip and gag cartoonist FRANK HILL September 10, 1929
comic book writer and editor SID JACOBSON October 20, 1929
editorial cartoonist CHARLIE DANIEL December 14, 1929
comic book artist JOHN ROMITA January 24, 1930
magazine cartoonist TED TROGDEN April 14, 1930
editorial cartoonist YARDLEY JONES May 2, 1930
comic book write and artist AL WIESNER July 2, 1930
comic book publisher JIM WARREN July 29, 1930
cartoonist R. O. BLECHMAN October 7, 1930
cartoonist PAUL FRANK GRAY October 10, 1930
cartoonist and illustrator EDWARD FRASCINO November 11, 1930
comic creator and writer BILL OWENS February 1, 1931
animator GERALD POTTERTON March 8, 1931
cartoonist MORT GERBERG March 11, 1931
cartoonist RENZO ORRU March 24, 1931
Coming up later this year is comic book and comic strip cartoonist Larry Lieber.
Since last year’s roll call we have lost
Bob Fujitani, Frank Jacobs, Ken Mahood, Henry Martin, Joe Sinnott, and Frank Thorne.
Corrections and additions are welcomed and encouraged.