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Carey Cassius Orr (January 17, 1890 in
Ada, Ohio Ada ; ; is a village in Hardin County, Ohio, United States, located about southwest of Toledo. The population was 5,952 at the 2010 census. History Following the 1817 Treaty of Fort Meigs, the Shawnee Indians held reservation land at Hog Cre ...
– May 16, 1967) was an American editorial
cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and g ...
. In his youth, Orr was a semi-professional baseball pitcher, and he used the money he made from baseball to study at the
Chicago Academy of Fine Arts The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum an ...
. After a $15 a week job at the ''Chicago Examiner'', he was 24 when he began at the ''Nashville Tennessean'' as a full-time
editorial cartoonist An editorial cartoonist, also known as a political cartoonist, is an artist who draws editorial cartoons that contain some level of political or social commentary. Their cartoons are used to convey and question an aspect of daily news or curren ...
. In 1917, he signed on with the ''Chicago Tribune'', where he stayed for 46 years. He drew the ''Kernel Cootie'' comic strip. On March 25, 1914, he married Cherry Maud Kindel, and they had two daughters. Cartooning ran in the family, as Orr was the uncle of '' Apple Mary'' creator Martha Orr, and his grandson is the cartoonist-stockbroker Carey Orr Cook. Carey Orr met and served as an early role model to Walt Disney when Disney moved back to Chicago. According to Neal Gabler's ''Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination'', Disney was very impressed by Orr's strip ''The Tiny Tribune''.


Awards

In 1961, he was awarded the
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. That same year he was profiled on the television series ''
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'' (May 21, 1961).


Archives

His papers are held at the
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and
Lake Forest College Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts college in Lake Forest, Illinois. Founded in 1857 as Lind University by a group of Presbyterian ministers, the college has been coeducational since 1876 and an undergraduate-focused liberal arts in ...
Library. In 1966, he donated more than 5400 cartoons to the Syracuse University Library's Special Collections Research Center. On June 3, 1966, he wrote: :My 50 years as a political cartoonist has been unique in one respect in that I have always finished the drawing completely without submitting the idea to the editor beforehand. The normal procedure is for the cartoonist to submit two or three rough sketches, one of which the editor may O.K. for completion. This latter method is a great time waster, and causes the artist to depend on the judgement of others with regard to his own work. Eventually the artist loses the ability to distinguish a good idea from a poor one. It is a bad habit to be too dependent on others.Carey Orr
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See also

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Mildred Seydell Mildred Seydell (born Mildred Rutherford Woolley; March 21, 1889 – February 20, 1988) was an American pioneering female journalist in Georgia. Seydel wrote as a syndicated columnist and founded the ''Seydell Journal'', a quarterly journ ...


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External links


Carey Orr Cartoons
at Syracuse University (primary source material)
Carey Orr Cartoons
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1890 births 1967 deaths American editorial cartoonists Artists from Ohio School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni Chicago Tribune people People from Ada, Ohio Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning winners {{US-cartoonist-stub