{"id":2729,"date":"2014-01-27T09:27:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2014-01-27T09:27:06","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T17:27:06","slug":"rip-morrie-turner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/2014\/01\/rip-morrie-turner\/","title":{"rendered":"RIP Morrie Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WeePals.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2730\" alt=\"Wee Pals cover\" src=\"http:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WeePals-176x300.jpg\" width=\"176\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WeePals-176x300.jpg 176w, https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/WeePals.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 176px) 100vw, 176px\" \/><\/a>Various sources are reporting the death of Morrie Turner, creator of the comic strip &#8220;Wee Pals&#8221;, at the age of 90. Turner was the Jackie Robinson of the newspaper strip field in multiple ways, getting a national syndication deal at a time when no other African-American had one, and landing a heavily integrated strip on the comics page in 1965, when that was not being done.<\/p>\n<p>Relevant to this blog, Turner was inspired by Schulz, and considered him a mentor. Schulz considered Turner a friend, and showed his support in various ways, including providing two introductions to &#8220;Wee Pals&#8221; books. &#8220;The best thing I can say about the cartoons of Morrie Turner is that he really knows what he is drawing about,&#8221; starts the first of these, which was used in the 1969 strip collection <em>Wee Pals<\/em> and was reused in the 1970 collection <em>Kid Power!<\/em> (which would later be the title of the animated TV series based on the strip) and again in the 1971 collection <em>Right On<\/em><em>!\u00a0<\/em>(For those of you tracking details, the other introduction appeared as foreword to the 1970 storybook <em>Nipper<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>A few years back, I was approached in different ways to support or be involved with what seemed to be two unrelated documentaries about Turner; I did a brief interview for one, don&#8217;t recall whether I did anything for the other. I have no idea if either project ever saw completion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Various sources are reporting the death of Morrie Turner, creator of the comic strip &#8220;Wee Pals&#8221;, at the age of 90. Turner was the Jackie Robinson of the newspaper strip field in multiple ways, getting a national syndication deal at a time when no other African-American had one, and landing &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaugh.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}