Olympic medal record
Art competitions
Silver	1932 Los Angeles	Watercolors and drawings

Percy Leo Crosby (December 8, 1891 – December 8, 1964)^[1][2] was a U.S. author, illustrator, and cartoonist. Art competitions formed part of the modern Olympic Games during its early years from 1912 to 1948 The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were an International Multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1932 Art competitions were held as part of the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States. Events 1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room the second public library of Europe. Year 1891 ( MDCCCXCI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room the second public library of Europe. Year 1964 ( MCMLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the 1964 Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created For the vector -based drawing program by Adobe Systems, see Adobe Illustrator. A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing Cartoons Traditionally much of this work was and still is humorous and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes He is best known for his 1923 to 1945 comic strip Skippy, a popular and acclaimed feature adapted into movies, a novel, and a radio show, and commemorated on a 1997 U.S. Postal Service stamp. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist Skippy was an American Comic strip written and drawn by Percy Crosby that ran from 1923 to 1945 A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story Radio programming is the content that is broadcast by Radio stations The original inventors of radio such as Nikola Tesla and Guglielmo Securities Trading Access Messaging Protocol (STAMP is a message format protocol used in Canadian Stock market describing electronic communications between exchange The strip, an inspiration for Charles Schulz's Peanuts,^[3][4] is considered by comics historians a "classic . Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26 1922 &ndash February 12 2000 was an American Cartoonist best known worldwide for his Peanuts Comic strip Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday Comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M . . which innovated a number of sophisticated and refined touches used later by Charles Schulz and Bill Watterson. William B "Bill" Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) an American Cartoonist, is the author of the Comic strip Calvin and Hobbes . . . "^[4] Critic and author Corey Ford in Vanity Fair magazine contemporaneously called the strip "America's most important contribution to humor of the century". Corey Ford ( April 29, 1902 - July 27, 1969) was an American humorist author outdoorsman and screenwriter Vanity Fair is an American magazine of Culture, Fashion, and Politics published by Condé Nast Publications. ^[5]

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 (1891–1923) Early life and career 1.2 (1923–1945) Skippy 1.3 (1945–1964) Later years 2 Footnotes 3 References

Biography

(1891–1923) Early life and career

Percy Crosby was born in Brooklyn, New York, prior to the 1898 incorporation of the five boroughs of New York City, and raised in Richmond Hill, in what would be borough of Queens but at the time was considered part of Long Island. Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous A borough is an Administrative division of various countries In principle the term borough designates a self-governing Township although in practice The City of New York Richmond Hill is a neighborhood in central-southern Queens, New York City, USA. Long Island is an island located in southeastern New York, USA, its western shores directly across from Manhattan, from which the island stretches ^[6] His father, Thomas Francis Crosby, the son of Catholic immigrants from County Louth, Ireland, was an amateur painter who ran an art-supply business. Catholic is an Adjective derived from the Greek adjective '' / 'katholikos' meaning "whole" or "complete". Immigration refers to the movement of people among countries While the movement of people has existed throughout human history at various levels modern immigration implies long-term County Louth (Contae Lú is a County on the East coast of Ireland, on the border with Northern Ireland. His mother Fanny, was of English and Scottish descent. The English people (from the adjective in Englisc) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to England who predominantly speak English The Scots people ( Scots Gaelic: Albannaich) are a Nation and an Ethnic group indigenous to Scotland. Percy had two younger sisters, Ethel and Gladys. ^[7]

Crosby quit high school during his sophomore year to take a job as an art-department office boy at editor Theodore Dreiser's magazine The Delineator. High school is the name used in some parts of the world (in particular Scotland, North America and Australia) to describe an institution Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser ( August 27 1871 &ndash December 28 1945) was an American novelist and journalist The Delineator (subtitled "A Journal of Fashion Culture and Fine Arts" was an American women's magazine that was published from 1873 until 1937 He was quickly promoted to artist, but the job ended after one issue. After selling magazines and delivering sandwiches, he eventually found a position as an editorial cartoonist for the Socialist newspaper the New York Daily Call. An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws Cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution A newspaper is a written Publication containing News, information and Advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called Newsprint. There he published his first two comic strips, Biff and The Extreme Brothers — Laff and Sy, but readers became outraged at frivolity in the paper and the strips were pulled.

Crosby next became a sports columnist and illustrator at the The New York Globe. Sport is an Activity that is governed by a set of rules or Customs and often engaged in competitively The New York Globe was the name of at least two New York City newspapers On the side, he produced comics used as occasional filler for the paper. Eventually fired, he entered, in desperation, an Edison Company contest for the best cartoon on the use of electric light. Consolidated Edison Inc is one of the largest investor-owned energy companies in the United States with approximately $13 billion in annual revenues and $30 billion in assets He won the $75 prize and saw his cartoon appear in every newspaper in New York City. The City of New York The exposure led to a job at the New York World, "at the time the promised land for aspiring cartoonists". The New York World was a Newspaper published in New York from 1860 until 1931 ^[8]

(1923–1945) Skippy

Skippy started in 1923 as a cartoon in Life magazine, and became a syndicated comic strip two years later, through King Features Syndicate. Print syndication is a form of syndication in which News articles columns, or Comic strips are made available to Newspapers, Magazines A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist King Features Syndicate, a Print syndication company owned by The Hearst Corporation, distributes about 150 Comic strips newspaper columns, Crosby retained the copyright, a rarity for comic-strip artists of the time. Copyright is a legal concept enacted by Governments, giving the creator of an original work of authorship Exclusive rights to control its distribution usually for

The strip focused on Skippy Skinner, a young boy living in the city. He's drawn with a sketchy line suggesting restlessness, usually wearing an enormous collar and tie, and a floppy checked hat. The other characters are only vaguely defined. Skippy's parents seem kind but do not pay him much attention; he has a few friends (notably Sooky) without much personality, except for Butch O'Leary, the neighborhood bully. Skippy himself is an odd mix of mischief and melancholy; he may equally be found stealing from the corner fruit stand, or failing to master skates or baseball, or complaining about the adult world, or staring sadly at an old relative's grave ("And only last year she gave me a tie". )

The strip was enormously popular, at one point guaranteeing Crosby $2,350 a week,^[9] an enormous sum at the time. Crosby published a Skippy novel and other books; there were Skippy dolls, toys, and comic books; and the comic was adapted as a movie by Paramount. Skippy is one of the first films nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, in 1931. A hit, it won director Norman Taurog the Academy Award for Best Director, and boosted the career of young star Jackie Cooper. Norman Rae Taurog ( February 23, 1899 - April 7, 1981) was an Academy Award -winning American film director born in Chicago "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Jackie Cooper (born September 15 1922 is an American Academy Award -nominated Actor, Emmy Award -winning TV director, and TV

From 1928 to 1937, Crosby produced 3,650 Skippy strips, ten books of fiction, political and philosophical essays, drawings, and cartoons, as well as numerous pamphlets, while also mounting a dozen exhibitions in New York City, Washington, D.C., London, Paris, and Rome of his oils, watercolors, and other paintings and drawings. Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 ^[4]

(1945–1964) Later years

During the World War II years, Crosby's politics increasingly intruded on the strip, and it began to lose readers. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Negotiations on a new contract failed, and Crosby ended Skippy on December 8, 1945, the cartoonist's 54rd birthday. Events 1609 - Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room the second public library of Europe. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar

His final years were tragic; unable to find steady work, he drifted into alcoholism. Alcoholism is a term with multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions In December 1948, after the death of his mother, he was committed to the psychiatric ward of Bellevue Hospital for a suicide attempt. Bellevue Hospital Center, founded in 1736 is the oldest Public hospital in the United States ^[9] In January 1949, he was transferred to the mental ward at Kings Park Veterans' Hospital, in Kings Park, New York, where he was declared a paranoid schizophrenic^[9] and spent the last 16 years of his life. Kings Park is a Census-designated place (CDP and town located in the Town of Smithtown, Suffolk County, New York, on Long Island. Paranoia is a disturbed thought process characterized by excessive Anxiety or Fear, often to the point of Irrationality and Delusion. Schizophrenia ( from the Greek roots schizein (σχίζειν "to split" and phrēn

In 1964, after a heart attack that had left him in a coma for months, Crosby died in the asylum on his 73rd birthday, having been unable to secure release. Myocardial infarction ( MI or AMI for acute myocardial infarction) also known as a heart attack, occurs when the blood supply In Medicine, a coma (from the Greek koma, meaning deep sleep is a profound state of Unconsciousness.

Footnotes

References

• Official Skippy site

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