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Creators Syndicate, 2002-2005., 2002-2005. Fine. - Five original pen & ink drawings consisting of panels drawn on white art card stock. Each measures approximately 4-1/2 inches high by 14-1/2 inches wide. The earliest strip, in 3 panels, drawn in black ink, is from 2002 and portrays Mikki asking Trinh how he liked the story which Connie read them, to which Trinh replies that it was "Nice, but I was wondering. Mikki. . How was the cow able to defy gravity?" Boldly signed "Morrie" at the bottom left of the last panel with Creators Syndicate's credits vertically penned between the second and third panels and with the date "9-4" penned at the bottom right of the first panel. The next strip, in three panels, is also from 2002 and drawn in black ink. In this strip, Oliver asks Ralph if he's cleaned the clubhouse, to which Ralph aggressively replies "Didn't you see me running in circles with the broom, Oliver?" George, who was listening in, then comments that one should "never confuse activity with achievement". Boldly signed "Morrie" at the bottom of the last panel and dated "9-6" within the second panel. Creators Syndicates' credits are penned vertically along the left edge of the second panel. The next, this one in 4 panels, is from 2002, and portrays Ralph telling Randy that with her loud voice Connie could be a lumberjack. Overhearing him, Connie challenges him "I heard that and you'd better change that. . To Lumber Jill!" Boldly signed "Morrie" at the left of the second panel with the date "9-9" penned at the right of that panel. Creators Syndicate's credits are penned vertically along the right edge of the third panel. The fourth strip, in 3 panels, is from 2005. The strip depicts Oliver quoting Shakespeare's Hamlet. Sybil comments "There goes Oliver soliloquizing again, Mikki" to which Mikki replies "Oh! . I thought he was talking to himself". Boldly signed "Morrie" at the right of the last panel with the date "10-14" penned at the top right of the first panel. Creators Syndicate's credits are penned vertically along the left edge of the last panel. The last strip, in 4 panels, is from 2005 and portrays Sybil asking Ralph about his grades, "Under water, Sybil" replies Ralph, to Sybil's puzzled response, Ralph explains "They're below 'C' level". Boldly signed "Morrie" at the bottom of the second panel with the date "12-13" at right. Creators Syndicate's credits are penned vertically along the right edge of the last panel. All are in very good condition. The pioneering African-American cartoonist Morrie Turner (1923-2014) broke the color barrier with "Wee Pals", the first syndicated strip to feature an integrated cast of characters. Turner served with the Tuskegee Airmen during the second World War, contributing illustrations to Stars & Stripes. He later created the strip "Baker's Helpers" while working for the Oakland Police Department. One of 6 cartoonists selected by the National Cartoonist Society, Turner spent 27 days in Vietnam during the war, drawing caricatures of service people on the front lines and in hospitals. Urged by his mentor "Peanuts" creator Charles Schulz, Morrrie Turner first created the comic strip "Dinky Fellas", but the all black strip was only picked up by one newspaper. This did not stop Turner who reworked the strip, renaming it "Wee Pals". Although the new strip, featuring an integrated cast of characters, was only published in 5 major newspapers at first, over a hundred newspapers chose to publish the strip following Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.
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